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Title of Generalissimo, Commendation by Country and People

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

    Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Fifteen years have passed since President Kim Il Sung was awarded the title of Generalissimo of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    Extensively reflected in the title are the great military merits performed by the iron-willed brilliant commander Kim Il Sung who founded the heroic Korean People's Army, the revolutionary armed forces and led the revolutionary wars against imperialist invaders to a brilliant victory.
    He was born in the darkest period of national ruin and embarked on the road of struggle to liberate the country in his teens. He founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) in April Juche 21 (1932) and led the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory, thus defeating the Japanese imperialists and achieving the historic cause of the national liberation.
    After liberation he developed the KPRA into regular revolutionary armed forces and led the Fatherland Liberation War against the imperialist allied forces to a great victory so as to inflict an ignominious defeat upon the U.S. imperialists and defend the freedom and independence of the country with credit.
    He set forth and brilliantly embodied the self-defensive military line after the war; he strengthened the KPA into a-match-for-a hundred revolutionary forces and turned the whole country into an impregnable fortress, smashing the aggressive maneuvres of the imperialists and reactionaries at every step and firmly safeguarding the security of the country and people.
    The President created the great military idea and unique strategies and tactics and performed rich military exploits and many-sided experience in the protracted and arduous struggle for accomplishing the Juche-oriented cause of army building and thus gave a positive encouragement to the people in their struggle for independence against imperialism.
    The Korean people, who were very grateful to the President for his immortal feats for the country and revolution, had long cherished a desire to award the title of highest level to him.
    Their ardent desire came true with the adoption of a decision of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, the DPRK National Defence Commission and the DPRK Central People's Committee on awarding the title of the Generalissimo of the Republic to the President on April 13, Juche 81 (1992).