The anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters loved their homeland more ardently than anyone else.
They keenly experienced the sorrow of stateless people in their native villages trampled underfoot by the Japanese imperialists and in an alien land.
As they knew they were as good as dead without their motherland, they never yielded in the life or death battles while sleeping on fallen leaves in the cold-wind-swept primitive forests and overcoming severe starvation.
“I’ll not forget the firm promise I gave the girl of my native village to meet her again after defeating the Japanese invaders before leaving the village”, “O the embrace of the homeland I want to return to, dead or alive”, “The homeland is life and soul”, “O Korea, we will surely defeat the Japanese imperialists and demonstrate your greatness to the world”…
Such slogans that the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters wrote on trees in the primitive forests vividly show their ardent patriotism and will to liberate their homeland.
Their love for their homeland grew stronger under the care of Commander Kim Il Sung, the peerless patriot.
The Commander implanted in their minds the preciousness of the homeland at a campfire at night in the secret camp, during an endless march or on a battlefield. Therefore the fighters valued even a blade of grass, a tree and a handful of earth of the homeland, and thought of the destiny of the homeland and the nation before their own.
The azaleas that they embraced for the first time during the advance into the homeland and handfuls of earth that they put into pouches with care before leaving the homeland after winning the historic Battle of Pochonbo, letting the whole world know that Korea was not dead but alive, made them think of the homeland, and the handfuls of earth they treasured gave them tremendous strength and courage.
Indeed, ardent patriotism was the spiritual strength that enabled the fighters to fight to the end against the gangster-like Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth and achieve the historic cause of national liberation.
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