His lifelong motto was "aim high".

With this motto, he remained steadfast in the arduous revolution, always prepared for three contingencies -- death from hunger, death from a beating and death from the cold -- and handed down two pistols and the idea of "aim high" to his son, President Kim Il Sung.

He formed the Korean National Association, a powerful anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization, in March Juche 6 (1917).

He expanded revolutionary activities throughout Korea and even to the Maritime Province of Siberia and Shanghai of China, undergoing severe trials.

The poem "Green Pine on Nam Hill" he wrote is still popular in the country.

Kim Hyong Jik's revolutionary life and feats are always kept in the Korean people's memory.