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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Glorifying Songun Era

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will consolidate the political and ideological base of the revolution as an impregnable fortress and continue to glorify the era of Songun with the armed forces strong in idea and faith trained under the deep care of the great illustrious commander Kim Jong Il who is pursuing the Songun policy as the main force, says Rodong Sinmun today in an editorial article. Noting that the army is a pillar and main force of the revolution the article says that a revolution means building up an army and vice versa.
    The might of the army is guaranteed by its servicemen's thinking and faith, the article says, and continues:
    The idea and faith define the character and mission of the army.
    The revolutionary army organized and guided by the idea of the leader truly serves the popular masses in accomplishing the cause of independence as the army of the leader and the party.
    The army's will also depend on its idea and faith. What a high role an army can perform depends on its transparent will.
    The revolutionary army equipped with the immutable idea and faith of its leader, supreme commander can play the role as the vanguard defending the gains of the revolution and bringing about social changes, and as a strong champion of the people's interests.
    If an army is to be true to the idea and faith, it should become a perfect personifier of the idea and faith.
    History and reality go to prove that the army strong in ideology and faith alone can preserve its class nature and creditably perform its role.
    This army strong in ideology and faith means a mighty political force and a main force of the revolution pushing forward the revolution.
    The idea and faith serve as a basic source enabling our army to become the main force of the revolution. Our revolutionary army is an army strong in ideology and faith, as it is equipped with the immutable Songun idea and faith of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    This kind of army is built and glorified only by a great illustrious commander.
    The KPA has been trained as an army strong in ideology and faith as it has firmly established a system of revolutionary commandership and militant traits and all its servicepersons have formed a harmonious whole centering around the Supreme Commander. This is a brilliant result of the primary efforts our Party has consistently exerted for augmenting the political and ideological might of our revolutionary armed forces in its leadership.
    The Korean revolution was pioneered and is making a victorious advance thanks to the army strong in ideology and faith.
    Our army regards the Songun idea and faith of Juche as its life and soul.
    The Songun idea and faith of Juche means the idea and faith of Kim Jong Il, the illustrious commander born of Mt. Paektu.
    Our army has fully embodied the Songun idea and faith of Juche, demonstrating its invincibility.
    The transparency of our army's Songun idea and faith of Juche is clearly proved by the revolutionary soldier spirit created and highly displayed among the servicepersons of the KPA under the leadership of the WPK.
    The revolutionary soldier spirit is based on the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and carrying out his instructions and the heroic self-sacrificing spirit. This spirit means the revolutionary do-or-die, persevering and indomitable spirit. It is in this spirit that the soldiers of the KPA unhesitatingly devote their youth and lives to the Party and the leader, the motherland and the revolution.
    Our army is strong as it cherishes absolute loyalty to its supreme commander.
    The KPA soldiers' absolute loyalty to their supreme commander is the noblest revolutionary spirit displayed in the do-or-die struggle and the immutable thought and feelings manifested in their life and practice every moment. Our revolutionary practice shows that profound trust and love and absolute loyalty exist between the supreme commander and his fighters, who form an inseparable harmonious whole.
    Ours is a strong army in which revolutionary traits prevail as all its servicepersons act as one by an order of the supreme commander. The militant traits of the KPA are revolutionary ones established and consolidated with the transparent faith and will whereby it knows nothing but the orders and instructions of its leader, supreme commander.
    The traits of the KPA mean the steel-strong discipline and order whereby all its servicepersons think and act as one according to the orders and instructions of its supreme commander.
    Our army remains a strong army because it devotedly carries out the orders and instructions of its supreme commander through thick and thin.
    The KPA devotedly implements the orders and instructions of its supreme commander in practice under any circumstances, standing in the van of our revolutionary ranks.
    It is a sure guarantee for victoriously steering the era of Songun to give fuller display to the might of the idea and faith of the People's Army.
    We should vigorously make a long journey of the Songun revolution with the Songun idea and faith of the Party as guidelines in our life and struggle, single-heartedly upholding Kim Jong Il.
    We should model the whole society after the Songun idea and put the single-hearted unity of our revolutionary ranks on a new higher stage and effect a fresh surge in the socialist economic construction.