Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The Korean people waged the national liberation struggle on the basis of guerrilla warfare by the standing revolutionary armed forces.

This way of struggle was created by President Kim Il Sung to liberate the country from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule.

When occupying Korea early in the 20th century, Japan was emerging a military power.

After "1868 Meiji Restoration" Japan had bolstered its military force for more than 60 years.

On the other hand, Korea in the 1930s was so weak without having its own troops.

Under such situation, Kim Il Sung declared an all-out war against the Japanese imperialists on the basis of guerrilla warfare.

It was not a simple matter to set forth this line of armed struggle for national liberation when any clear-cut theory on the national liberation struggle in colonial countries could be hardly found.

It had been known at that time that for armed struggle there were two ways -- regular warfare and guerrilla warfare and the former was considered to be the fundamental way and the latter to be temporary and subsidiary one.

But, the Korean people had neither state-backing home front nor regular army.

Penetrating into this actual condition, Kim Il Sung made a scientific and unique decision that the anti-Japanese armed struggle to be launched by the Korean people should be based on the guerrilla warfare by standing revolutionary armed forces.

On this basis, he, at the winter Mingyuegou meeting in Juche 20 (1931), advanced a unique idea that the Koreans should wage an armed struggle mainly based on guerrilla warfare rather than regular warfare to defeat the Japanese aggression troops. It was a great event to be recorded in the history of national liberation struggles in colonial countries.

After that he founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (then Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army) on April 25, 1932 to lead the anti-Japanese war to victory.