Invincible Revolutionary Army Grown Up under Care of Peerlessly Great Men

Today when the ９３rd founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) is being celebrated, our people are recollecting with deep emotion the proud history of the revolutionary armed forces which have won victories under the wise guidance of the peerlessly great men.

President Kim Il Sung clarified the immutable truth that arms are the lifeblood of the nation and victory of the revolution and founded the KPRA, the first revolutionary armed forces of Juche type, on April ２５, １９３２.

Since then, our people came to have their own genuine army for the first time in history and a new history of the Korean revolution, which was pioneered and victoriously advanced by force of arms, has begun.

It was the military miracle in the ２０th century that the President, leading the anti-Japanese revolution, trained the KPRA into a powerful main force for the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle and liberated the country by smashing the Japanese imperialists, and built the regular army with the KPRA as its backbone force and led the Fatherland Liberation War to victory by defeating the imperialist aggressors with the US as their ringleader.

Chairman Kim Jong Il, who set it as his lifelong mission to carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the President, ushered in a new era of the development of our revolutionary armed forces with his outstanding commanding art and steel-strong courage.

The People’s Army has developed into an invincible elite revolutionary army and the DPRK has turned into a world-class military power and a full-fledged nuclear weapons state. This was unthinkable without his wise leadership.

In the new century, our revolutionary armed forces, started the first step with two pistols, are ushering in a golden age of their development, demonstrating the might as the elite revolutionary army under the guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, peerlessly brilliant commander.

The ideas of thoroughly establishing the Party’s monolithic command system in the whole army and invariably preserving the revolutionary nature of the people’s army, the idea of making the People’s Army a reliable pathfinder and a solid pillar of the revolution and other ideas and theories on army building set forth by the General Secretary, serve as important guidelines for ushering in a great heyday of strengthening the military capabilities.

Tremendously powerful absolute weapons and various ultra-modern weapon systems have been developed one after another and our servicepersons of the People’s Army have grown up into matchless ones thanks to the great efforts of the General Secretary.

Our revolutionary armed forces will always emerge victorious under the leadership of the General Secretary, peerlessly illustrious commander.

Rodong Sinmun