It was from about 1940 that T. B. Mukherjee, the former president of the Asian Institute of the Juche Idea, began longing for President
At that time he was a Patna University student and often told from a professor of history about the anti-Japanese revolutionary war waged by the President.
His lecture had a great impact on the young Mukherjee and made him keep an earnest desire to see the President.
At last he visited the DPRK in June Juche 69 (1980) and was met by the President.
He came to know that the immortal Juche idea he had worshipped so ardently was originated in the bloody struggle against Japanese imperialists.
Mukherjee often spoke that the portrait of the President kept in his heart for the first time was that of the great man as the anti-Japanese legendary hero, the youth general of twenties who led the great anti-Japanese war to victory forcing his way through severe seas of blood and flames.
Today, not only he but also the progressive peoples around the world are endlessly admiring the President for having made a huge contribution to the cause of human emancipation by leading to victory the arduous armed struggle against Japanese imperialism.