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Ever-victorious Korean People's Army

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- April 25 is the anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA), revolutionary armed forces. With the approach of this day, the entire Korean people, with pride, are looking back upon the KPA's ever-victorious history spanning more than 70 years.
    The Anti-Japanese People's Guerilla Army, which was founded in Juche 21 (1932) as standing armed forces, defeated the Japanese imperialists behaving themselves like the leader of Asia and liberated the country in 1945 under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
    The Anti-Japanese People's Guerilla Army was further strengthened as the KPA, a regular army, after the liberation of the country to inherit a glorious tradition of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. The KPA won a great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) against the U.S. imperialists' invasion and brought about the beginning of decline for the U.S. imperialists for the first time in history.
    In the postwar period, it fully showed its ever-victorious heroic stamina by smashing their ceaseless military provocations such as the "Pueblo" incident (1968), "EC-121" incident (1969) and Panmunjom incident (1976).
    With Kim Jong Il as its supreme commander, the KPA has become stronger.
    Over the past ten years it has creditably defended the security of the state by sternly thwarting thousands of dangerous military provocations of the U.S. imperialists.
    There are some typical examples to show such things:
    A KPA soldier shot down with a single shot a latest-type helicopter of the U.S. army which entered into the territorial air of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in December 1994. When the U.S. imperialists opened gunfire towards the DPRK site in the demilitarized zone of the Military Demarcation Line in July 1997, KPA soldiers, in retaliation for the military provocation, took such an immediate self-defence measure as raining fire on their pillboxes and artillery emplacements and destroying them.
    When the U.S. imperialists aggravated the situation in Korea, taking issue with the DPRK over the "issue of underground nuclear facilities" and its launch of an artificial satellite in the end of the 1990s, the KPA dispirited them through a statement of its General Staff spokesman declaring that there is no limit in its striking force and the revolutionary army will answer the challenge of the U.S. imperialist aggression army without the slightest mercy.
    The KPA will as ever emerge victorious by sternly smashing the moves of the U.S. imperialists and their followers to isolate and stifle the DPRK.