True to the will of his father Kim Hyong Jik, he had come to and studied in the motherland. One day of January that year he heard that his father had been arrested again by the Japanese police.

He, who determined to fight a life and death struggle to avenge his father and the Korean nation, started out on the journey at the age of 13.

He took a train from Pyongyang to Kaechon and walked all along in the face of inclement snowstorms of the northern area.

On February 3, the thirteenth day following he left his dear native home with a firm resolution to win back the ruined country at any cost, he arrived at Phophyong Ferry. He looked back at mountains and streams in the motherland over and again with sorrow and indignation.

He walked slowly towards the opposite side of the river singing the "Song of the River Amnok" and made a firm resolve not to return home before he won the independence of Korea.

True to his resolve, he waged the sanguinary anti-Japanese war for 20 years, thus accomplishing the historic cause of national liberation.

Every year lots of school youth and children make an expedition march along the 1,000-ri-long route of revolution covered by the President.

The expedition march has been participated in by nearly one million school youth and children from different parts of the country over last three-odd decades since the first "1,000-ri Journey for National Liberation" expedition march was conducted with the attendance of more than 10,000 school youth and children in January 1975.

The new generations of Korea are launching the expedition march with the steel-like resolution to make a long journey for building a great, prosperous and powerful nation in the spirit of the 1,000-ri journey of revolution.