Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- History teaches truth that united, a nation stands; divided, it falls.

The victory in the Korean people's cause of national liberation depended on their united efforts.

In the 1920s nationalist forces and campaigners of the early communist movement in Korea tried to bring about integration in their own ways, but they were engrossed in factional dispute and vain speculation without a correct idea of unity.

Penetrating into the situation, President Kim Il Sung set forth the line of the anti-Japanese national united front at the Kalun Meeting in June Juche 19 (1930), with his absolute trust in the people and confidence in their strength.

It was his fixed view that the front should embrace all the patriotic forces of Korea, including conscientious capitalists, patriotic landlords and intellectuals.

After the Nanhutou meeting in February 1936, he planned to organize the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland (ARF) as an umbrella united front body representing the demand of the developing Korean revolution and strong desire of the Koreans.

He personally worked out the programme, rules and inaugural declaration of the ARF during the breaks of arduous marches and consecutive battles with the Japanese imperialist aggressors.

He convened a meeting in Tongjiang, Fusong Prefecture, in May 1936 to declare the birth of the ARF as a standing anti-Japanese national united front body and a strong underground revolutionary organization.

All those present at the meeting elected him chairman of the Association.

He also proposed calling the organ of the ARF "Monthly Samil", symbolic of the spirit of the March First Popular Uprising waged by the Koreans against Japan.

He specified in the ten-point programme of the Association its goal, which was to put an end to the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and build a genuine country for the people in Korea.

Since then the anti-Japanese national united front movement had rapidly developed throughout the country on an organized and systematic basis in close combination with the anti-Japanese armed struggle, more effectively arousing all the patriotic forces to the struggle for liberation of the country.

To rally broad masses of people behind the Association, Kim Il Sung met Pak In Jin, a patriarch of Chondoism (national religion).

He ardently called upon the patriarch to work hard for unity of the entire nation around the ARF so as to victoriously conclude the anti-Japanese sacred war and liberate the country.

Immediately after its birth, the ARF extended its influence even to China and Japan as well as homeland and the anti-Japanese patriotic forces were united closer around it.

The ARF contributed to leading the all-out resistance against the Japanese imperialists to final victory.

Thanks to this idea of great national unity and its tradition created during the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the Korean people could successfully carry out the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution even under the complex situation after the liberation of the country and defeat the U.S. imperialists in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953).

Kim Il Sung's idea of great national unity and his feats in achieving it had been carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il.