Politics

Study tour groups are streaming to Mt Paektu where the Korean revolution started.

President Kim Il Sung led the arduous and fierce anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory, centring on the mountain, to achieve the historic cause of Korea’s liberation and establish the great revolutionary tradition to be reliably carried forward by the Korean people for ever.

According to data available, more than 1 000 officials and working people of dozens of units toured the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt Paektu area in early November, when the study tour in the winter of this year started.

Teachers and students of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers’ Party of Korea took the lead in the study tour.

Party schools at all levels, including the Pyongyang municipal, ministry of Railways and Nampho municipal Party schools, also toured the sites.

Enthusiasm for the tour is growing in ministries and national agencies as well.

Officials and civil servants of ministries and national agencies including the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of External Economic Relations, officials of the WPK Committee of the Pyongyang Construction Commission and Party and administrative officials of many units, including the Taesong Ceramic Factory and the Pyongyang Building Stone Factory, participated in the winter study tour of the sites. During the tour, they also studied and held a question-and-answer study contest about the immortal revolutionary exploits performed by the President in all battle sites of the bloody anti-Japanese war and the revolutionary traditions of the WPK.

Officials in the field of revolutionary relics preservation across the country, too, went on the march to Mt Paektu to look round the sites of the bloody battles fought by the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, bearing deeper in mind the firm resolution and unshakable will to follow the road of revolution to the end under the guidance of the Party and intensifying the study of the methodological issues for sprucing up the revolutionary battle and other sites in their original state and preserving them in a scientific and technological way.

Young people from across the country toured the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt Paektu area with a high zeal to glorify the noble name of socialist patriotic youth and successfully carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered in the mountain.

During the study tour, they had gatherings for hearing impressions about the reminiscences of anti-Japanese guerrillas and question-and-answer study contests.

According to information available, more than 3 000 study tour groups and over 150 000 officials, working people, People’s Army men and officers and schoolchildren have toured the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt Paektu area for the past five years since the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a field inspection tour of the sites on horseback between November 30 and December 2 in 2019.

The study tourists say, “The winter study tour of Mt Paektu constitutes a shortcut to making the history of the bloody anti-Japanese struggle a real-life experience of people in our era and the eternal breath of the revolution, not letting it remain as lines of the reminiscences or the memories of the old days,” and “I’ve realized exactly how influential climbing Mt Paektu once in the blizzards of winter is instead of reading a book on the faith and will of a revolutionary as many times as possible in a warm room.”

The number of the study tourists to the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt Paektu area keeps increasing.