The article said that Jan. 22 is a historic day when he started the above-said journey with a far-reaching aim for liberating Korea 90 years ago.

It went on:

Seeing Korea groaning under the occupation by the Japanese imperialists while making his journey, he pledged himself not to return home if Korea was not independent.

He waged the twenty year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to liberate Korea, and led the Fatherland Liberation War, postwar rehabilitation and construction and socialist construction to victory.

The 250-mile journey for national liberation made by him is the glorious one which brought the dawn of national rebirth and the historic one which gave origin to the cause of independence.

The glorious road covered by him was given steady continuity by HE Kim Jong Il, the general of Mt. Paektu.

The Korean people will certainly build a thriving socialist nation in Korea true to the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and dynamically advance along the road of revolution full of conviction in victory under the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.