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National Meeting Marks Day of KPA

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the April 25 House of Culture here today to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army. Present were senior Party, state and army officials, servicepersons of the KPA, people from all walks of life, the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea and overseas Koreans.
    Present on invitation were diplomatic envoys of different countries, members of the military attaches corps here and foreign guests.
    Yon Hyong Muk, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, made a report.
    He said:
    The foundation of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army by President Kim Il Sung on April 25, Juche 21 (1932) was an event to be specially recorded as it marked an occasion of a fundamental change in carving out the destiny of the Korean people and advancing the revolution.
    After brilliantly accomplishing the historic cause of founding the revolutionary armed forces of Juche, the President energetically led the struggle to develop the People's Army to be a model revolutionary army in the era of independence and an invincible army.
    He set out the man-centered theory of army building, thus shattering the "weapon is all-powerful theory" that had historically been recognized as an absolute axiom in the military field, and formulated the fundamental principle of building the revolutionary armed forces based on the decisive role played by the servicepersons in military activities.
    The President's idea and theory of building the revolutionary armed forces are the revolutionary idea and theory he set out, guided by the idea of giving priority to arms and military affairs based on the revolutionary principle of Juche that the army of the revolution guarantees its victory.
    Herein lie the greatness and tremendous vitality of his idea and theory of building the army.
    Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il has successfully carried forward and developed the President's cause of building the army. He set it forth as the primary task of the revolution to train the People's Army as an invincible revolutionary army and has wisely led the struggle to carry it out.
    He advanced the theory of modeling the whole army on the Juche idea, a theory of building army centering on the leader, providing an immortal programme for building the revolutionary armed forces in our era as it comprehensively indicates the general goal, duty, fundamental principle and ways of building the revolutionary army in the service of the cause of socialism.
    He has pursued the unique Songun politics in the 1990s, bringing about a new drastic turn in increasing the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK.
    The Korean People's Army has grown to be a matchless fortress and shield defending the sovereignty of the country and socialism, the reporter said, adding that it has turned into matchless combat ranks possessed of strategy and tactics peculiar to the country and equipped with offensive and defensive means powerful enough to wipe out any formidable enemy at a single stroke backed by the independent and modern national defence industry.
    We have exerted utmost efforts to increase the military force under the banner of Songun and thus built up a war deterrent force strong enough to destroy any new type weapon and operational means and immediately beat back any surprise aggression by imperialists. We feel highly proud of this, the reporter declared.
    He called for implementing the Songun idea and the Songun revolutionary line of the WPK to augment the combat ability and might of the KPA in every way.
    He underscored the need to firmly establish revolutionary commanding system and military trait whereby all the servicepersons move as one by the order of the supreme commander and convert the KPA into the strongest army in the world in terms of political and ideological preparedness and military muscle.
    Referring to Kim Jong Il's recent unofficial visit to China which helped strengthen the international solidarity with the Korean revolution, the reporter said that the army and the people of the DPRK would firmly preserve and glorify the shining successes and exploits he performed with his farsightedness through his energetic external activities.
    The situation on the Korean peninsula has reached a serious phase due to the hostile policy of the U.S. imperialists and the moves of the Japanese reactionaries against the DPRK, the reporter said, and continued:
    All the servicepersons and people of the DPRK are following the U.S. hypocritical talk about dialogue with vigilance and getting fully ready to effectively counter the enemy provocations in any circumstances.
    If the U.S. warhawks and the Japanese reactionaries finally ignite a war of aggression despite our repeated warnings, the army and the people of the DPRK will give vent to the wrath of the nation that had been pent up century after century and use the military deterrent force it has built for decades to deal merciless and inescapable crushing blows at them and thus emerge victorious in the confrontation with the U.S. and Japan.