In the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle (1932-1945), this camp was built in Mt Madu as one of the secret camps forming the Anju Area Secret Base, which served as a base for regional leadership and an important base for military operation in the western part of Korea.

The Anju Area Secret Base was assigned to the position of the headquarters of the revolution in the period of operation for the final attack to liberate the homeland.

President Kim Il Sung set forth a line for accomplishing the historic cause of national liberation through a general offensive of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) combined with all-people uprising and joint operations behind enemy lines and gave a task to build new secret bases in the homeland as part of the work for implementing the line.

Under his operational plan, a small unit of the KPRA built several secret camps, including the Madusan Secret Camp, in Anju area and formed underground revolutionary organizations to build a revolutionary fortress for preparing an all-people resistance and an operation for the final attack.

In the Madusan Secret Camp there are 51 trees bearing slogans written by members of the KPRA. Among them are "Don't abandon revolutionary faith though one may die" and "Fight death-defyingly for our country and nation" showing the noble mental spirit of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners.

When visiting the Madusan Revolutionary Battle Site in January Juche 103 (2014), Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said the area of Anju where the revolutionary battle site is located was an important operational area for greeting the great event of national liberation, adding that President Kim Il Sung chose the area for a secret base and this fact proves that he was a peerlessly great man possessed of far-sighted wisdom.