Historic Wangjaesan Meeting

Mt. Wangjae is in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province in the northern border area of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea.

The Wangjaesan Revolutionary Site is in the mountain. 80 years ago in March Juche 22 or 1933 the great leader President Kim Il Sung called a meeting of the heads of the underground revolutionary organizations and political operatives in the area of Onsong against the Japanese imperialists on Mt. Wangjae.

In those days the Japanese imperialists made desperate efforts to prevent the growth of the Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army and keep the revolutionary influence of the anti-Japanese armed struggle from reaching the people in the homeland.

The Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army was faced with a task to further spread and develop the armed struggle deep into the homeland to promote the Korean revolution as a whole.

Deeply seeing through the prevailing situation and the demand of the developing revolution, President Kim Il Sung led a unit of the guerrilla army to the Onsong area.

The meeting of the heads of the underground revolutionary organizations and political operatives in the area of Onsong was held on Mt. Wangjae on March 11, Juche 22 or 1933.

At the meeting President Kim Il Sung delivered a historic speech under the title "To Spread and Develop the Armed Struggle into the Homeland".

Jang Hye Ryon, lecturer of the Korean Revolution Museum, has this to say:

"That day the great leader President Kim Il Sung made a specific analysis of the successes achieved after the founding of the Anti-Japanese People´s Guerrilla Army and the then situation of the revolution and put forward a strategic and tactical policy on spreading and developing the armed struggle into the homeland. His speech convinced the participants of the victory of the anti-Japanese revolution and gave them revolutionary zeal. They unanimously and actively supported the policies put forward by President Kim Il Sung and made a firm resolve to resolutely defend and implement them. Indeed, the Wangjaesan meeting was a significant meeting of historic importance in the development of the Korean revolution."

After the historic meeting, the general Korean revolution centred on the anti-Japanese armed struggle rapidly spread deep into the homeland. It was a historic occasion to make a new heyday of the Korean revolution.