Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The Far East region of Russia is the historic place associated with the inerasable footprints left by President Kim Il Sung during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

It was in the region that the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA), the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Northeast China and the Soviet Far East forces developed their joint anti-Japanese actions, escalating them in width and depth.

Kim Il Sung spent a day in Khabarovsk on his way home after wrapping up his historic official goodwill visits to the former Soviet Union and socialist countries in Eastern Europe in summer of 1984. At that time, the President recollected with deep emotion the life in a training base of the Far East and the Khabarovsk Meeting during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

Khabarovsk became an important gathering place during the joint struggle waged by the KPRA and the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Northeast China after forming International Allied Forces with the Soviet Army units in the Far East. It was there that cadres of Comintern, revolutionaries of Korea, the Soviet Union and China and commanders of armies met with one another and understood each other and sought orientation and ways of joint struggle.

The President said the Khabarovsk Meeting together with the Xiaohaerbaling Meeting marked an occasion in bringing about a new turn in the Korean revolution. The Khabarovsk meeting was an important meeting at which the contents and methods of the anti-Japanese armed struggle in the first half of the 1940s were defined and this helped the Korean revolutionaries to strengthen the driving force for the Korean revolution with firm faith of the country's liberation and actively meet the great event to come, he added.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited several times the Far East region associated with the history of the revolutionary struggle of Kim Il Sung. By doing so, he left giant footprints for boosting the DPRK-Russia friendly relations.

He cruised the River Amur in the Far East region in August of 2001, looking back with deep emotion upon the history of the anti-Japanese revolutionary leadership of the President in the region.

His visit to Siberia and the Far East region of Russia this year, the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the historic DPRK-Russia Moscow Declaration, made the Korean people recollect with deep emotion the visits of the peerlessly great men to the region once again.

The Korean people have particularly warm feelings towards the Far East region as it is witness to the history and tradition of the DPRK-Russia friendship.