Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- August 15 marks the anniversary of national liberation won by the Korean people under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.

With the day approaching, the Korean people are looking back upon the feats the President performed in putting an end to the 40-odd-year colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and liberating the country.

Struggle against capitalism and colonial rule ran high in some countries in the late 1920s, a sign of the advent of a new era in the struggle against the class exploitation and national oppression and for independence and the development of the revolution on a worldwide scale.

With a deep insight into subjective and objective requirements of the Korean revolution, the President convened a meeting of cadres of Communist League and Anti-imperialist Youth League in June, Juche 19 (1930). At the meeting, he put forward a unique revolutionary theory that one should be responsible for all problems arising in waging revolution and tackle them independently in conformity with the actual situation of the country.

He defined an organized armed struggle as a fundamental way for the movement of national liberation in colony and called for providing all necessary conditions for the movement.

After training hardcore members, preparing arms, gaining military experience and laying mass foundation, he founded revolutionary armed forces in April 1932.

In historic meetings held in Dahuangwai, Nanhutou and Nanpaizi, he set forth strategic and tactical tasks and ways for successfully advancing the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle.

Under difficult circumstances, he employed superb tactics in battles.

Many stories praising the President as a legendary hero of the anti-Japanese armed struggle are well known among the Korean people.

Under the slogan "Oppose armed force with armed force, and resist counterrevolutionary violence with revolutionary violence!" he defeated the Japanese imperialists and achieved the country's liberation.

The victory in the anti-Japanese armed struggle served as a landmark event that inspired the world's oppressed people to the struggle for national liberation and put the revolutionary movement on a higher stage.