It was in late April 1936. President Kim Il Sung visited a secret camp where members of the Children’s Corps were living. He acquainted himself with their living and took necessary measures so that they could live a safe life when the guerrilla unit left the camp.

Some days later the members of the Children’s Corps came to the secret camp where the Headquarters stayed and appealed to Kim Il Sung to take them with him, saying that they cannot live even a moment apart from him.

Kim Il Sung told them how arduous and difficult it would be to follow the guerrilla unit.

Commanding officers of the guerrilla unit asserted that the children would be burdensome and asked Kim Il Sung to leave them in the camp. The children maintained that they could fight against the Japs.

Kim Il Sung finally decided to take the children with the unit.

Looking at the officers who were surprised, Kim Il Sung told them that it was comparably easy to bring them up in the rear but taking children with the unit might be much laborious because the unit conducted a guerrilla warfare.

He explained the officers why he had chosen a more laborious road. He decided to take them with the unit not only because it could take better care of them if it were with them but because they were the ones who would go through severe trials of the revolution and they were future revolutionaries who should continue to advance till the day of the victorious revolution.

Later the children left the camp with the guerrilla unit thanks to the love for the future of Kim Il Sung who intended to train them in the revolutionary struggle, the best school for a revolutionary.