Politics

The Wangjaesan meeting held on March 11 1933 is one of the historic meetings that left indelible traces in the history of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle in Korea.

The Japanese imperialists who militarily occupied Korea between 1905 and 1945 desperately tried to nip the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army founded in April 1932 and its bases in the bud.

Under the circumstances, to expand the armed struggle into the homeland in the steadfast spirit of national independence was a very important matter related to the destiny of the Korean revolution.

This was because only when the armed struggle was spread to the homeland would it be possible to vigorously arouse the broad masses of people to the anti-Japanese struggle under the influence of the armed struggle and also possible for the Korean people to defeat the Japanese aggressors and achieve the independence of the nation with their own efforts.

To liberate Korea by expanding the armed struggle into the homeland was the strategic goal consistently maintained by General Kim Il Sung, the legendary hero of the anti-Japanese war, since he declared the war and an unshakable faith that had never escaped him.

Based on the subjective and objective conditions and political situation for spreading the armed struggle to the homeland in 1933, the General broke through a tight cordon by the Japanese imperialists to advance into the homeland and went to Mt Wangjae leading a unit in March that year.

On March 11, he convened the Meeting of Chiefs of Underground Revolutionary Organizations and Political Workers in the Onsong Area on the summit of the mountain and made a speech “On Spreading and Developing the Armed Struggle into the Homeland”.

The speech analysed the political situation of Korea at that time and the achievements made after the founding of the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army, set the strategic line of spreading the anti-Japanese armed struggle into the homeland and clarified the ways and tasks for implementing the line.

The anti-Japanese guerrillas’ advance to the Onsong area under the command of the General and the historic Wangjaesan meeting served as the prelude to the expansion of the armed struggle into the homeland, and as a historic watershed in further developing the overall Korean revolution centring on the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

After the meeting the anti-Japanese armed struggle was fiercely waged across the homeland. This finally led to the accomplishment of the historic cause of national liberation on August 15 1945.

In the 1970s the Korean people built the Wangjaesan Revolutionary Site, including the Wangjaesan Grand Monument along with the statue of President Kim Il Sung, the Wangjaesan Revolutionary Museum and so on, in the Onsong area in order to convey his immortal exploits forever.