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 November the 4th this year marks the 110th birth anniversary of the indomitable revolutionary fighter Kim Hyong Gwon, uncle of the great President Kim Il Sung.
 Kim Hyong Gwon was born into a revolutionary family in Mangyongdae, Pyongyang, on November the 4th, 1905 and devoted his all to the revolution. What is distinguished in his revolutionary activities was that he positively struggled in the homeland in support of the policy of the anti-Japanese armed struggle advanced by Kim Il Sung.
 The great leader Kim Il Sung presented the line on organizing and waging an armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists in the historic Kalun meeting held between June the 30th and July the 2nd, Juche 19 or 1930. Kim Hyong Gwon led an armed group of the Korean Revolutonary Army into the homeland in August Juche 19 or 1930 in order to carry out the Juche-oriented revolutionary line advanced by Kim Il Sung. Kim Hyong Gwon led positive activities of armed group in different parts of the homeland including Phabal-ri of the then Phungsan County. At that time in Phabal-ri there was a vicioius police sergeant of the Japanese imperialists´ police substation who had committed all crimes against the Korean people. In order to satisfy the people´s grudge Kim Hyong Gwon attacked the substation and shot the police sergeant to death. The gun report made in Phabal-ri was an echo which gave the truth to the Korean people groaning under the rule of the Japanese imperialists that the struggle is the only way out and the armed enemy must be defeated with arms. Frightened by the gun report made in Phabal-ri, the Japanese imperialists mobilized huge police force for strict cordon. Even in the worst situation Kim Hyong Gwon conducted remarkable military and political activities in different areas.

  Kim Hyong Gwon was unexpectedly arrested by the betrayal of a renegade. He never lost his faith but bravely fought in prison. He made a speech opposing the ideologial conversion forced by the enemy before the prisoners and fiercely fought for the improved conditions of prisoners. He also led the strike of prisoners against the murderous forced labor. In an attempt to prevent his activities and influence the enemy locked him up in a dark isolation cell and put irons on his wrists and ankles so that the irons cut into his flesh whenever he made the slightest movement. But they could not break his faith and will. It was the faith of such a man who was ready to be starved, frozen and beaten to death for Kim Il Sung and the revolution. Kim Hyong Gwon struggled without abandoning the principles of a revolutionary before passing away in prison.
 The gun report made by Kim Hyong Gwon in Phabal-ri is kept deep in the minds of the Korean people still today decade after decade.

Voice of Korea