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Korean National Association
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Hyong Jik, the outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, formed the Korean National Association (KNA) at Hakdang-gol of Pyongyang on March 23, Juche 6 (1917) together with other patriotic advocates of the independence movement.

The KNA was a secret organization aimed at achieving the national independence on the united strength of the Koreans themselves and building a genuine civilized state. It was a central revolutionary organization clear-cut in its revolutionary character with its roots struck deep into the broad masses and the largest anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization at home and abroad.

Substantially different from all other anti-Japanese organizations that had existed, the KNA was established from a very close and solid mass foundation.

It was an organization that gave the Korean people firm faith of opening up the nation's future by their own efforts. And it contributed to building up the ideological and spiritual foundation for the development of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement by dynamically waging activities to enlighten the popular masses to arm them with the sense of national independence.

The formation of the KNA by Kim Hyong Jik was a grand event that allowed the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea to enter a new road of unified development in realizing the noble idea of anti-imperialist independence and national unity.

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