The weather has turned cold.

It's winter in earnest now.

Baekdu Mountain in the north has already started snowing a few months ago and the cold is getting stronger, and more and more people are climbing Baekdu Mountain these days.

This is the so-called mid-winter march to explore Mt. Baekdu.



According to North Korean media reports, in mid-November, students from the Central Executive School of the Workers' Party of Korea, students from the People's Economics University in late November, and young students from all over the country in early December went on a winter expedition to Mount Baekdu.

They are climbing to the top of Mt. Baekdu one after another, ignoring the cold of midwinter.




Mt. Baekdu is at a high altitude, so you must wear long-sleeved clothes even in summer when you go near Cheonji.

This is because the temperature is low, the wind is blowing hard, and the weather is changeable.

So Baekdu Mountain is usually not climbed in winter.



However, the winter march began in earnest when Secretary General Kim Jong-un visited Mt. Baekdu in December 2019.




At the time, Kim Jong-un said, "The revolutionary ideology of President (Kim Il-sung) and General (Kim Jong-il) is pulsating at every revolutionary battlefield and historic site in the Baekdu Mountain area." He emphasized that in order to thoroughly prepare and arm ourselves as a field, we must come out of 'Baekdusan University' through field trips to the revolutionary battlefield of Baekdusan Mountain."



In particular, "If you come to Baekdu on a blooming spring day, you will not know the spirit and spirit of Mt. You can experience how it adds to the revolutionary zeal and boils the blood.



Following Kim Jong-un's instructions, the mid-winter march to explore Mt. Baekdu was intensively conducted from the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020.

However, in 2020, as the corona spread worldwide and North Korea entered a quarantine system to block the border, the march to Baekdu Mountain also slowed down.

It seems that this Baekdu Mountain exploration is in earnest again after North Korea declared the end of the corona this year.


[The meaning of Mt. Baekdu in North Korea]

In North Korea, Mt. Baekdu has a very important symbolic meaning.

This is because a large part of propagating the legitimacy of the Kim Il-sung family's rule is unfolding against the background of Mount Baekdu.



North Korea claims that Kim Il-sung liberated our nation through an anti-Japanese armed struggle on Mount Baekdu.

North Korea claims that the revolutionary battlegrounds of Mt. Baekdu are traces of Kim Il-sung's anti-Japanese struggle at Mt.



According to North Korea's claim, Kim Il-sung gave birth to Kim Jong-il while conducting an anti-Japanese armed struggle on Mt.

It is argued that the secret camp of Baekdu Mountain (a secret place for the guerrilla army), which North Korea advertises as the birthplace of Kim Jong-il, is where Kim Il-sung stayed.

Since Kim Jong-il's birthday was February 16, 1942, it is argued that even at this time, when the defeat of Japanese imperialism was only three years away, Kim Il-sung did not escape to a foreign country, but led an anti-Japanese armed unit in Mount Baekdu on the Korean Peninsula to fight against the Japanese imperialists.




Since 1987, a large-scale campaign called slogan tree literature learning has been launched in North Korea.

When Kim Jong-il was born, the anti-Japanese armed forces of Kim Il-sung, who were on Mt. Baekdu, celebrated the birth of Baekdu Gwangmyeong-seong (Kim Jong-il), the future leader, and peeled the bark and wrote slogans on it.



[Is North Korea's claim true?]

Of course, these claims are false.



Looking back at the history we learned in middle school and high school, in the 1940s, the armed struggle in Manchuria as well as the Korean Peninsula was not easy due to the Japanese subjugation.

According to scholars' findings, Kim Il-sung and his troops fled to the Soviet Union in the 1940s.

Therefore, it is likely that Kim Jong-il was born with the help of a midwife at a camp near Vladivostok where Kim Il-sung was staying, or in a hospital in downtown Vladivostok.



It is hard to believe that it is a relief tree that North Korea claims.

Since Kim Jong-il was not born on Mt. Baekdu, and Kim Il-sung's troops were not on Mt.



However, by disguising these fictions as facts, people are being educated all over North Korea.

It may be because Kim Jong-il judged that there is no appealing symbol like Baekdu Mountain and the anti-Japanese armed struggle to explain the legitimacy of Kim Jong-il's succession as the successor of Kim Il-sung as the leader of North Korea.




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