This monument was erected in 1708 to convey the feats of a Hamgyong provincial volunteer army of Korea who defeated the Japanese aggressors in that area during the Imjin Patriotic War (1592-1598).

It is 187 centimeters high, 66 centimeters wide and 13 centimeters thick. Written on its front and rear sides are more than 1,400 letters that tell the details of the Japanese pirates' aggression and the volunteer army's formation course and major battles.

The Japanese imperialists illegally occupied Korea by fabricating the "Ulsa Five-point Treaty" and took away the monument to Japan in 1906, for fear of the Korean people's surging anti-Japanese sentiments. They left it in a corner of the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japanese militarism, and put a stone weighing one ton upon it, in a bid to cover up their history of aggression and shameful defeat and weaken the Korean nation's patriotism and anti-Japanese sentiment.

Chairman Kim Jong Il saw to it that the monument was taken back as it shows the Korean nation's history of struggle against aggression. After all, it could be put up again in its original place in 2006, 100 years later.

When visiting North Hamgyong Province in May Juche 97 (2008), he saw the monument and gave instructions on preserving it well as a witness of history that discloses the Japanese imperialists' crimes to the world and as a monument to victory showing the Korean people's anti-Japanese patriotic spirit and their strong stamina and indomitable fighting spirit.