[Anecdotes] :: New Mountaineering Route

In May 1981 Kim Jong Il, determined to open up a new tourist route, climbed Mt. Myohyang, leading an expeditionary party made up of senior officials from the central organs.

An official who had been appointed the guide told Kim Jong Il that the path was steep. But Kim Jong Il led from the front, replying that mountaineering was more rewarding if it was a challenge.

[Preface] :: Preface

In the early 20th century, the Korean people who had remained bound in the fetters of age-old backwardness, poverty and feudalism were driven into a miserable plight under the military occupation of the Japanese imperialists (1905-1945).

In those days of national ruin, Kim Il Sung was born on April 15, 1912. Regarding love for his country, nation and people as his lifetime motto, he embarked on the road of revolution in his early days and performed great exploits that would be handed down for ages. He liberated Korea by commanding the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary war to victory. He built a powerful socialist country―independent in politics, self-sufficient in the economy and self-reliant in national defence―by leading the building of a new society, the Fatherland Liberation War, the post-war rehabilitation, the social revolutions of two stages and the socialist construction to victory.