One day President Kim Il Sung received a Japanese press delegation visiting the DPRK. The President arranged luncheon for them and had a talk with them. During the luncheon a newspaperman who silently took notes, unlocked his heart.
He said in deep emotion… I thought you, President Kim Il Sung, would be a ferocious man, as you had been known as the “tiger of Mt. Paektu” in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, but today I realize that you are a benevolent man. To tell the truth, I was second lieutenant of the Japanese army, who narrowly escaped from destruction at the Hongtoushan battle. The majority of the Japanese army was killed at the battle and I survived your raid, because I was sent out to inspect the sentries at that time.
His was an honest confession made out of admiration for President Kim Il Sung, a legendary hero of the anti-Japanese war whose mere name stroke horror into the hearts of the enemy.
