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Treasured Sword for National Sovereignty and Destiny

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

   Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- The dignity and sovereignty of a nation can be defended only when its army is strong. It is the truth of history that the Korean people have experienced in the protracted revolutionary struggle.
    The history of army building is associated with the sacred life of President Kim Il Sung.
    He started his revolutionary activities in his early years and realized keenly that it was necessary to found a national army in order to save the destiny of the fellow countrymen from the harsh rule of the Japanese imperialists. He, thus, embarked upon the road of accomplishing the sacred cause of building the army with the two pistols handed down by his father Kim Hyong Jik as the wherewithal.
    In the course of struggling to implement his Juche-oriented line and policies advanced at the Kalun meeting, he founded the Korean Revolutionary Army (KRA) on July 6, Juche 19 (1930).
    He stated at the inauguration ceremony that the KRA was a political and paramilitary organization of the Korean revolutionaries to make preparations for the anti-Japanese armed struggle, and that regular revolutionary armed forces would be organized in future on the basis of the KRA.
    For nearly two years since then, the pivotal force had been trained, the mass foundation laid and full military preparations made for the formation of the anti-Japanese armed ranks under his outstanding and tested leadership. As a result, the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army was founded in Antu on April 25, 1932.
    Thanks to such revolutionary armed forces, the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of the Korean people could be crowned with victory through many arduous and complicated ordeals unprecedented in history.
    The President had attached the greatest importance to the arms even after the war, to say nothing of the liberation of the country (August 1945) and the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950 - July 1953), and thus frustrated the armed aggression and provocations of the U.S. imperialists.
    The policy of attaching importance to arms has emerged victorious over the last 77 years since the formation of the KRA. This proud history has been brilliantly carried forward by Kim Jong Il.
    He has won victory after victory and glorified the destiny of the nation with the policy of attaching importance to arms. His original Songun leadership firmly protects the Korean-style socialism.