Here are some data proving that Korea’s liberation was achieved by its internal forces under the distinguished and wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.

Before August 15, 1945, a US diplomatic document wrote, “The Korean communist army (Kim Il Sung’s army) is likely to sweep over the Korean peninsula at an opportune time.” A US university professor wrote, “Old Manchuria (Northeast China) is a main theatre of the Pacific War, and resistance by General Kim Il Sung proved a big factor that frustrated the subsequent military expansion of Japan.”

A book published in the Soviet Union The Kwantung Army Is Defeated (authored by L. Malinovsky) reads.

“Korea continued the struggle against oppressors by its own efforts for 40 years (since 1905). Until August 1945 partisan units were active in Korea, and they rendered positive assistance to the Soviet army in annihilating Japan.”

When he met the 25^th Soviet army commander Colonel General Chistyakov after the defeat of Japan, General Takenato, the Japanese commander of the Pyongyang garrison unit, confessed that Japan had stationed two corps, seven divisions and numbers of gendarmes and police in Korea in order to repulse the partisan struggle of Korea as well as to get ready for a war against the Soviet Union.