It was against this backdrop that the President Kim Il Sung initiated the general ideological mobilization movement for building the country, considering ideological remoulding as a key issue in the nation-building. The movement was aimed to instil ardent patriotism into the people and rouse them to building a new country. The WPK organized "operative groups for the general ideological mobilization movement for building the country" to increase their role. Many propagandists were sent to conduct ideological education among people from all walks of life.
As a result, at least 18,700 peasants participated in the patriotic rice-donating movement in the agricultural field only at the end of December Juche 35 (1946). A vigorous emulation drive for increased production was also under way for the prosperity and development of the economy. This movement which was aimed at boosting production and educating the working people was greatly helpful to the rehabilitation and construction of factories and enterprises.
Through this emulation drive the Korean workers successfully completed the rehabilitation and readjustment of not a few factories and enterprises in the power, coal, mining, iron and other industrial fields to start production in Juche 35 (1946). 822 industrial establishments, including the Kangson Steel Works, the Songjin Steel Works, the Nampho smelter and the Sohung mine started operations in that year. At least 14.5 million Sok (one Sok equals 150 kg) of more grain was produced in 1946 than 1945. And the campaign to abolish illiteracy was waged as a movement involving all masses and the whole society. As of Juche 34 (1945) there were over 2.3 million illiterates in North Korea. At least 16,170 adult schools were built and operated in the country in 1946 to abolish illiteracy.
As a result, more than 90 percent of the illiterates became able to read and write as of March 1948. Such mass movements were instrumental in remoulding the people's mental aspects in a short span of time after the liberation of the country and achieving great successes in the building of a new democratic Korea.
The U.S. who occupied South Korea and their stooges brought together reactionary forces in a bid to disunite the revolutionary forces for building a new country while all sorts of "communists" were locked in scrambles for power to expand the sphere of their influence. Under this situation Kim Il Sung met many communists separately active at home and abroad to explain to them the line of nation-building and policy on founding the party in detail and thus get them united close. He dispatched anti-Japanese revolutionary veterans to local areas so as to revamp and expand party organizations in a short span of time, organize party cells and increase the party membership at factories and enterprises and in rural areas. He also set up institutions to train party cadres on a systematic basis.
On the basis of these preparations he called a party inaugural congress in Pyongyang on October 10, 1945. At the congress he formed the central organizing committee of the communist party of North Korea as a party central guidance body and proclaimed its foundation. The party foundation enabled the working class and other laboring people of Korea to have reliable vanguard and political staff and successfully carry out the cause of building a new society under the leadership of the party.
In autumn, 1930 he went to Onsong county, North Hamgyong Province, and personally guided the formation of the party organizations in Korea. He dispatched the Pukson (northern part of Korea) political operatives' group, which was made up of excellent political officers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, to the northern part of Korea in 1937 with a view to rallying communists active in different areas and hardcore people and educating them and steadily expanding party organizations.
As a result, party organizations were active not only in the anti-Japanese armed ranks but in the border area on the northern tip of Korea and its western and central parts, in eastern and southern Manchuria and various areas of Japan where Koreans lived. His organization of the party committee of the KPRA was followed by the creation of the eastern Manchuria party operative committee, the party operative committee in the homeland and the Changbai county party committee.
Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- The mass foundation for building the Worker's Party of Korea was laid and consolidated during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle (1925-1945). Korean communists worked hard to awaken the masses to consciousness and unite them in organizations in the rigorous period of the armed struggle, the main trend of revolution at that time.
The President Kim Il Sung dispatched a number of political underground workers to all parts of the country during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle so that they might conduct political work among the masses to lay mass foundation for founding the party. They formed mass organizations across the country to rally the masses. The work of building the mass ground for party foundation was carried out in close relation to the anti-Japanese national united front movement.
The President founded the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland on May 5, 1936, involving people from all walks of life who were against Japanese imperialism. This was a historic event in strengthening the mass ground for the party foundation. The network of the association rapidly spread out to areas around the Amnok and Tuman rivers, different parts of Korea and even to residential quarters of Koreans in Manchuria and Japan. Organizations under the association which were formed under various names according to local specific conditions involved at least 200,000 people of different social standings -- workers, farmers, students, urban petty-bourgeoisie, nationalists and patriotic religionists.
The President dispatched excellent party members to leading posts of sub-organizations at all levels and enlisted commanding officers and members of the main forces of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into those sub-organizations. Therefore, the association played an important role in consolidating the mass ground of the party as well as organizing the masses of broad sections in the anti-Japanese struggle. This mass ground laid during the anti-Japanese struggle was one of important factors of founding the WPK in a less than two months after the liberation of the country (August 1945).