Kim Il-sung, later to become leader of North Korea, was a high-rank officer in this army, and attained a distinction that he cross the Manchurian-Korean border and attacked Japanese police station in Pochonbo at 1937. It was widely reported by Korean presses such as Donga Ilbo and he became famous in Korea as the most prominent leader of the anti-Japanese movement. After the war, some of the Korean nationals in this army became the first generation of the leaders of North Korea. Besides Kim Il-sung, An Gil, Kim Chaek, Choe Yong-gon and Kang Kon were also Korean high-rank officers of NAJUA, later assumed high positions in North Korea.