A man, who styled himself a “master” of nationalism, gave a lecture to students in Hwasong Uisuk School one summer day in 1926. He delivered a fervent speech banging the lectern and making gestures, but he did not say even a word about how to do for liberation in Korea.

That night at the boarding house, President Kim Il Sung told his fellow students.

… Now people who try to launch the liberation movement claim about liberation in Korea but they do not have a clear plan to get back the country. In order to defeat the Japanese imperialist bandits and achieve liberation, it is necessary to clarify a way to rally the power of the nation but who can do this? Even independence champions are not able to unite their power except collecting and consuming war funds with no control by walking by twos and threes.

Kim Il Sung said that it was impossible to follow such a way. He underlined that it was necessary to definitely liberate Korea by mobilizing the power of the broad proletarian masses and relying on strength of the masses and faith of the students.