The museum is the place where Kim Hyong Jik, father of President Kim Il Sung and indomitable revolutionary fighter, hewed out the untrodden path of the history, regarding it as the headquarters of the Korean National Association and base of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea and a powerful base of educating the masses.

The President visited Ponghwa-ri on April 10, Juche 55 (1966), recalled the revolutionary activities of Kim Hyong Jik and Kang Pan Sok, mother of the President, and ascertained historical materials one after another. He gave field guidance to it more than 10 times to teach the principled issues arising in the preservation of the revolutionary relics.

Leader Kim Jong Il made sure that the revolutionary museum was built into the base of studying the revolutionary activities of Kim Hyong Jik and the base of educating the masses and personally named it. And he also went to the spot several times and solved problems arising in the work of preserving and managing the historical site.

The revolutionary museum has carried out the revolutionary duty in a responsible way as the place which tells about the career and revolutionary feats of Kim Hyong Jik, outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, during the past 50 years since its foundation on June 5, 1966.

A meeting to mark the anniversary took place on Sunday.

Present there were officials concerned, officials and employees of the museum.

A congratulatory message of the WPK Central Committee to the employees and officials of the museum was conveyed there.

A report was made to be followed by speeches.