The secret camping ground on Mt.Paekdu was a base which the great leader President Kim IL Sung set up for strategic purposes in the latter half of the 1930's during the anti-Japanese revolutionary war. At the time he was looking to effect a major upsurge in the Korean revolution in general while focusing attention on the armed struggle against the Japanese.

A network of secret camps was set up in the Mt.Paekdu area with the secret base which was the headquarters of revolution at the centre and numerous others ranged around it.

The base on Mt.Paekdu hidden away amid vast forests and rugged mountains made it possible to contain the enemy's offensives to a large extent and employ agile guerrilla warfare tactics. At the same time it was in a favorable location for expanding the base over the Paengmu and Kaema Plateaus and along the Rangnim Range and extending the armed struggle deep into the homeland.

The secret camps were equipped with all the essentials for training and resting the guerrilla units and for providing medical care.

Even now remains of the old barracks, arms repair shop, clothing depot, hospital, printing shop and liaison office which were built around the secret headquarters are preserved in good condition.

There is also the log cabin where the dear Comrade Kim Jong IL was born.

In the secret camp the great leader mapped out out-standing strategic lines and policies to effect an upsurge in the Korean revolution. He waged the armed struggle, promoted the anti-Japanese national united front movement across the country and made preparations for the founding of the Korean Communist Party.

While commanding the activities of the Korean people's Revolutionary Army units from here he dispatched political workers to the border areas and into the homeland on specific missions and summoned revolutionaries and patriots from the homeland to give them training in the appropriate methods and orientation for the struggle.