KPA birthday celebrated abroad
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- Meetings, round-table talks, book and photo exhibitions and film shows were organized in Guinea, Switzerland, Egypt, Singapore and Peru between April 23 and 25 to celebrate the 71st birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA).
At a meeting, the army commander of the Guinean armed forces referred to the fact that President Kim Il Sung founded the KPA and developed it into revolutionary armed forces.
Today under the Songun leadership of supreme commander Kim Jong Il, the KPA has been built up as steel-like ranks equipped with powerful offensive and defensive means and as invincible armed forces capable of annihilating any aggressors at one stroke, he said.
The chairman of the Swiss Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, at a meeting, highly praised Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for their feats performed in army building, saying:
In the past century the KPA won the just wars against the U.S. and the Japanese imperialists under the guidance of Kim Il Sung and is now reliably defending the country, true to the Songun policy of Kim Jong Il.
The United States should clearly know that the KPA is a matchlessly strong army led by the illustrious commander and the DPRK is not Iraq, he said.
After seeing Korean films "the Korean People's Army, steel-like ranks" and "70th birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army", the Secretary General of the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea and other personages said:
The KPA is a strong army fully prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique. No army in the world can match the KPA commanded by Kim Jong Il. The DPRK remains impervious to the U.S. moves to isolate and stifle it.
A meeting in Switzerland adopted a congratulatory message to Kim Jong Il.
