Rodong Sinmun in an article says that Korea's liberation is a great cause of the national history accomplished by Kim Il Sung, a peerless patriot and national hero, and an immortal feat performed by him in the history of the Korean revolution.

The 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle was the most hard-fought and arduous revolutionary war unprecedented in the history of human liberation, the paper says, and goes on:

It is the President who put forward the original lines of struggle, strategies, tactics and guerrilla tactics from the Juche-based viewpoint in the whole period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, firmly rallied all the anti-Japanese patriotic forces into the one rank and led the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory, braving all sorts of crises and difficulties in the van.

His rare ideological and theoretical wisdom, outstanding commanding art, ardent love for the country and its people and warm comradeship were the fundamental source which helped bring about the victory of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle by defeating the Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth.

The liberation of the country was a noteworthy historic event that provided a turning point of national restoration for the first time in the national history spanning 5 000 years and heralded the solemn birth of the new era.

As the President liberated the country, the Korean people could put an end to the vicious colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and regain the sovereignty of the nation and the bright way of building a prosperous and powerful country was opened on this land.

Minju Joson in an editorial says that the revolutionary exploits of the President who led the great anti-Japanese war to victory to save the country and the nation from the destiny of colonial slavery and set a world-historic example of the national liberation struggle will shine forever.