Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerillas (Korean: 항일 빨찌산 참가자들의 회상기; Hanja: 抗日 빨찌산 參加者들의 回想記; RR: Hangil ppaljjisan chamgajadeurui hoesanggi; MR: Hangil ppaltchisan ch'amgajadŭrŭi hoesanggi) is a collection of memoirs of North Korean guerillas fighting during the 1930s and 1940s in Manchuria against the Japanese.
The Party History Institute (당력사연구소) was founded in 1958, and its collection of memoirs, Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerillas, was published in 1959, when Kim Il-sung's cult of personality was being strengthened after the August Faction Incident.
These initiatives were part of the efforts to create and promote Kim Il Sung's activities during World War II as an anti-Japanese myth.
[3] High-ranking defector Hwang Jang-yop dated the beginning of the personality cult at the end of the 1960s, when various guerillas disappeared from North Korean partisan literature.
Until the 1960s, guerillas like Eulji Mundeok, Kang Gam-chan and Lee Sun-shin were common in North Korean partisan literature.
[3] The memoirs are still commonly used in daily ideological study sessions at workplaces, as they are seen as classic literature of the Workers' Party of Korea.