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Military ranks of KPA commanding officers promoted

KCNA

Release Date: 7/28/2003

Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il issued an order on promoting the military ranks of commanding officers of the KPA on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory in the Great Fatherland Liberlation War. The order dated July 26 said that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK fully demonstrated the mettle and honor of heroic Korea by defeating the U.S. imperialist aggressors, which had boasted of being "the strongest" in the world, under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.

Today they have grown stronger to be a matchless army capable of crushing any imperialist aggressors at a single stroke and are performing proud feats to shine long in the annals of the country, standing in the van of the struggle to defend the country and build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.

He issued this order, expressing the firm belief that the kpa commanding officers who have grown under the care of the Workers' Party of Korea and the leader would creditably fulfil in the future, too, the heavy duties they have assumed before the party, the country, the times and the revolution, true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the party.

According to the order, Pyon In Son and five other commanding officers have been promoted to colonel generals, Jon Ryong Gu and nine others to lieutenant generals and Rim Yong Hwa and seven others to major generals.