Functions held on Army Day
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Functions took place on April 24 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the founding of the heroic Korean People's Army.
Meetings were held at units of the three services of the KPA.
Reporters there said President Kim Il Sung exerted great efforts to strengthen the KPA till the last moments of his great life and provided a firm military guarantee for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche. They went on:
Supreme commander Kim Jong Il has paid primary attention to building up the army for decades and performed immortal feats in the army building to remain shining for centuries with his outstanding and tested leadership.
All the servicemen should build up their units as one community united by the destiny which shares weal and woe with the supreme commander and ranks of human bombs devotedly defending the leader, cherishing the iron faith and will that the single-hearted unity and the victory of socialism are in store them when they defend the headquarters of the Korean revolution.
A dance suite "army and people single-heartedly uphold Kim Jong Il" was performed by artistes of the Korean People's Army Song and Dance Ensemble at the April 25 House of Culture on the occasion.
Senior officials of the party, the state and the army were among the audience.
A performance was given by the workers art squad of the central committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea on April 23.
