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    The Monument to Mausoleum of King Tangun was erected in praise of exploits of Tangun, the founding father of the Ancient Joson and in commemoration of the completion of its repairing.

    The Korean people were enraged by the Japanese imperialists’ vicious machinations to purge and obliterate a long history and cultural tradition of the nation and resolutely turned out in the struggle against them.

    Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement stood in van of the struggle. Through the popular events at the Mausoleum of King Tangun including an incense-burning ceremony, Kim Hyong Jik led the people to resolutely defend the mausoleum from the Japanese imperialists’ move to obliterate the national culture while implanting soul of the nation, the anti-Japanese patriotic spirit in the people’s mind.

    After demise of Kim Hyong Jik, the anti-Japanese patriots formed the “Society for Repairing the Mausoleum of King Tangun” in 1932 and began repairing the mausoleum. The repairing was completed in 1936, and the people erected this monument in commemoration of its repair and inauguration.

    The Monument to Mausoleum of King Tangun consists of a body and a pedestal stone.

    Writings are engraved on four sides of the body. Writings praising the exploits of Tangun who built Korea are on the front of the body. They are divided into two parts in large--details of building Korea by Tangun, a founding father of Korea and poem in praise of Tangun’s exploits. Also written on both sides of the monument are the names of 66 members of the society, the amount of money wasted in the repairing project and the names of 59 donators. Brief details of repairing the mausoleum are written on the back side of the monument explaining that its reconstruction was completed in 1936.

    President Kim Il Sung rectified the history of Tangun and the Ancient Joson that had been distorted and obliterated ruthlessly by the Japanese imperialists and gave valuable instructions to finely reconstruct the Mausoleum of King Tangun. Chairman Kim Jong Il saw that the Mausoleum was built as an excellent monumental edifice of the era of the Workers’ Party and the remains of its surrounding including the monument were arranged finely.

    The Monument to Mausoleum of King Tangun is permeated with immortal exploits of the family members of the President in Mangyongdae who added brilliance to the nation’s time-honoured history and culture and the Korean people’s love for the country and the nation.