KIM IL SUNG
THE TEN-POINT PROGRAMME OF
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE
RESTORATION OF THE
FATHERLAND
May 5, 1936
1. To mobilize the entire Korean nation and realize a
broad-based anti-Japanese united front in order to overthrow
the piratical Japanese imperialist rule and establish a
genuine people’s government in Korea;
2. To defeat Japan and overthrow its puppet state
“Manchukuo”26 by the Koreans resident in Manchuria through a
close alliance between the Korean and Chinese peoples, and
to effect full autonomy for the Korean people residing in
Chinese territory;
3. To disarm the Japanese armed forces, gendarmes, police
and their agents and organize a revolutionary army truly
fighting for the independence of Korea;
4. To confiscate all enterprises, railways, banks,
shipping, farms and irrigation systems owned by Japan and
Japanese and all property and estates owned by pro-Japanese
traitors, so as to raise funds for the independence movement
and use part of these funds for the relief of the poor;
5. To cancel all loans made to people by Japan and its
agents and abolish all taxes and monopoly systems; to
improve the living conditions of the masses and promote the
smooth development of national industries, agriculture and
commerce;
6. To win the freedom of speech, the press, assembly and
association, oppose terrorist rule and the fostering of
feudal ideas by the Japanese imperialists, and to release
all political prisoners;
7. To abolish the caste system which divides the ryangban
(nobles) and the common people, and other inequalities; to
ensure equality based on humanity irrespective of sex,
nationality or religion; to improve the social position of
women and respect their personalities;
8. To abolish slave labour and slavish education; to
oppose forced military service and military training of
young people; to educate people in our national language,
and to enforce free compulsory education;
9. To enforce an eight-hour day, improve working
conditions and raise wages; to formulate labour laws; to
enforce state insurance laws for the workers, and to extend
state relief to the unemployed;
10. To form a close alliance with nations and states
which treat the Koreans as equals and to maintain comradely
relations of friendship with states and nations which
express goodwill and maintain neutrality towards our
national-liberation movement.