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Songun, Life and Soul of Korea

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- "Songun is the life and soul of the country and people and the dignity of the nation," says the joint New Year editorial. This reflects the truth the Korean people had keenly experienced in the course of the revolutionary struggle of Korea, which started and advanced under the banner of Songun. President Kim Il Sung, who laid down the slogan "Weapons are our life and soul! Oppose armed force with armed force!" in his early days and pioneered Songun, founded the revolutionary armed force, first of its kind in Korea, in April, Juche 21(1932), thus declaring a war against the one million-strong aggression troops of the Japanese imperialists.
    He created original guerrilla tactics to win one brilliant victory after another in the anti-Japanese war to accomplish the historic cause of national liberation in August 1945.
    After liberation he put forth the foundation of the revolutionary regular armed forces as one of the main tasks in building a new country and developed the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into a modern regular army in a short span of time.
    Thanks to the revolutionary armed forces, the servicepersons and people could defend with credit the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953), which was started by the U.S. imperialists to conquer the DPRK in its cradle.
    In the postwar period the President set forth the slogan "Hold a rifle in one hand and a sickle and hammer in the other!" and simultaneously pushed ahead with the economic construction and defence upbuilding and, at the same time, developed and strengthened the KPA to be invincible one. As a result, he smashed every move of the U.S. imperialists and their followers to invade the DPRK.
    Kim Jong Il is brilliantly carrying forward the Songun-based idea and leadership of the President and always leading the Korean revolution along the road of victory under the banner of Songun. The Korean people elected him to be chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the KPA. It was a special event in the Songun history of Korea.
    In the middle of the 1990s the leader frustrated the unprecedentedly intensified aggressive maneuvers of the imperialists and safeguarded the destiny of the country and people with the might of Songun to usher in a fresh heyday of building a great, prosperous and powerful nation.
    The Korean people are filled with a firm resolution to remain faithful to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.