The Japanese imperialists who had illegally occupied Korea got more frantic in their fascist oppression of the Korean people entering the middle of the 1930s.

Clamoring that the "Japanese and Koreans are of the same descent" and "Korea and Japan are one", the Japanese imperialists pursued more viciously than ever before the policy of obliterating the Korean nation whereby to deprive them of their spoken and written language and their family names.

When the destiny of the Korean nation stood at the crossroads of life and death, the President worked out a plan to storm a lair of the Japanese imperialists with arms of the revolution and thus inspire the Koreans with confidence in and hope for the national liberation and arouse them to the anti-Japanese resistance.

He acquainted himself down to the details with the reality of the motherland from underground workers dispatched to the homeland while seeing to it that full preparations were made for the advance into the homeland with a large unit.

At 10 p.m. on June 4, Juche 26 (1937) a gunshot fired by the President reverberated far and wide to the nocturnal sky over Pochonbo.

Members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army surprised the police substation of the Japanese imperialists and enemy's administrative centers such as forest conservation office, sub-county office, post office and fire hall were engulfed in flames in an instant. And appeals and handbills were scattered in the street.

Tong-A Ilbo and other major newspapers in the homeland strived to be the first for reporting the news of the battle and Ryo Un Hyong and other figures hurried to Pochonbo to see the battle site with their own eyes -- all the country seethed with the news of the battle.

The Battle of Pochonbo was followed by the victorious battles of Mt. Kouyushui and Jiansanfeng to add great confidence and courage to the people.

The historic Battle of Pochonbo convinced the Korean people that not only Korea was still alive but also they were fully capable of achieving national liberation, when they fought against Japanese imperialism with arms in their hands. It dealt a severe irretrievable political and military blow to the Japanese aggressors who boasted of their "invincibility".