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| Congratulatory message on August 15
I have been an exile for 27 years, and I am overwhelmed with emotion to be here with 30 million of my fellow countrymen. I will avoid long speeches and simply express some of my feelings here since you have suffered for a long time. After reproducing myself into so many replicas, so to speak, and I have had them visit the hearts of 30 million compatriots. I agree with the replica of Kim Gu who suddenly visited and said, "Thirty million people are dancing at a banquet in someone else's house, and the last one year has been wasted, and independence cannot be achieved by relying on other powers, but only independence with self-reliance will bring about the relief of the people and the eternal prosperity of the nation." I beg you, my fellow countrymen, if you betray your independence and the welfare of your people by flattering or profiting from the American military government, or are blinded by selfish interests and greed, the independence that has run away to the deep sea far from the safety. Not only that, but there seems to be a tendency within the country to abandon our homeland and seek it outside of this country, and these are all barriers to our independence. We must exert our utmost endeavors to accomplish independence while liquidating something against justice and trust in addition to uniting ourselves, rush to the front line of the independence with the mind of advancing a step even if we are bleeding a lot, and wield a sword of justice without hesitation towards any powers thwarting independence even if they are our parents or brothers. |
