President Kim Il Sung had already evolved an operation plan for liberation of the country long before Korea’s liberation.

In November 1940 when he had an emotional meeting with a fighter from North Manchuria, Kim Il Sung informed him of his operation plan for liberation of the country.

Kim Il Sung said.

“The general trend of the world is now turning towards the ruin of Japanese imperialism. Although Japan is now carrying on a war against China alone, she may provoke a war on a larger scale sooner or later. Japan’s present situation on this one front alone is hopeless. Therefore, if she sparks another war, it will bring about her ruin. The moment of our final showdown will assuredly come in a few years. When that moment comes, we should launch a fight to the death through all-people resistance by rousing all the resistance organizations across the country in cooperation with an all-out offensive of the KPRA, the main force of the Korean revolution. This is my plan for the operations for the liberation of the country and my line of winning independence by our own efforts.”

Kim Il Sung’s plan was reflected later in the operation plan for the KPRA’s final offensive in August 1945, thus achieving a historical event of Korea’s liberation.