The historic journey led to heralding the dawn of national liberation from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and providing the origin of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

More than half of the journey was little different from pathless track.

In particular, the route from Kanggye to Huchang (then) was exposed to wild beasts even in the daytime.

However, the President continued the journey through primitive forests with a firm determination to avenge his father and the Korean people upon the Japanese imperialists for their occupation of the country.

He arrived at Phophyong ferry on February 3, Juche 14 (1925), thirteen days after he left his native place, Mangyongdae. He took a view of his fatherland and then of a foreign land across the river with bitter grief and sorrow.

Then he moved toward the foreign land, singing the "Song of the River Amnok" with a grim resolve not to return home until Korea became independent.

True to that day's resolve, he led the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory and accomplished the historic cause of the country's liberation.

The glorious history of the Korean revolution is unthinkable without his immortal feats.

The revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the President has been carried forward under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.