2024.8.9.

In 1945, the fascist Germany was defeated and the Japanese imperialists found themselves on the brink of final ruin.

President Kim Il Sung, who penetrated keenly into the trend of rapidly changing situation in a scientific manner, made preparations for the final decisive battle to expedite Japan’s defeat and win the country’s liberation.

He, in June, Juche 34(1945), convened a meeting of the military and political cadres of the KPRA at the Kanbaeksan Secret Camp which was a base for training the hard core for the all-people resistance and an assembly place of the units of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) for the final decisive battle against the Japanese imperialists, and issued the operational plan for the final attack for national liberation while confirming the combat tasks of each unit gathered there.

He instructed in the meeting that the main strategic intention was to completely annihilate the Japanese imperialists with the KPRA’s positive offensive operations combined with an all-people resistance and joint operations of armed resistance organizations behind the enemy lines.

Under such detailed preparations, the President issued a historic order of the general offensive to the KPRA units on August 9 in Juche 34(1945).

The KPRA units rushed towards the motherland by defeating and wiping out the Japanese aggressive army.

In response to the final attack operation of the KPRA, the people’s armed units and armed resistance organizations in the homeland harassed the enemy in the rear by boldly attacking the Japanese imperialist aggressor troops, gendarmerie and police establishments and seized government organs of the Japanese imperialists.

The Japanese imperialists, who had sustained a severe blow by the heavy attack of the KPRA and the active all-people resistance, announced the unconditional surrender on August 15 in Juche 34(1945), only a week after the launch of the general offensive.

Thus, the historic cause of national liberation was accomplished.

The order of final attack issued by President Kim Il Sung was a solemn appeal that aroused the whole Korean people to the final decisive battle for the national liberation and a historic declaration that augured the birth of new Korea.

Rodong Sinmun