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DPRK Full of Spirit of Attaching Importance to Arms

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

   Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- It has become a spirit in the DPRK to attach importance to the armed forces.
    Experienced that apart from arms it is impossible to guarantee the destiny of the people and the happiness of the rising generation, to say nothing of the destiny of the country and the victory of the socialist cause, the Korean people have the idea of attaching importance to military affairs as the loftiest requirement of their life and struggle and the unswerving confidence and will.
    In March Juche 82 (1993) when the U.S. imperialists were frenzied with the "Team Spirit 93" joint military exercises, the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army issued an order on putting the whole country, all people and entire army on a semi-war footing. In hearty response to the order, more than 1,500,000 young people volunteered to return to or join the army.
    In 1994, too, when the U.S. imperialists worked out "OPLAN 5027", the second Korean war scenario and were going to ignite the fuse of war, millions of youths demonstrated their firm will to take arms and make a total showdown with the aggressors.
    The parents regarded it as the greatest pleasure and family tradition to send their children to the army even during the difficult "Arduous March" and forced march.
    Women bring up orphans to guard the posts of national defense and girls in towns get married to officers of frontline army units. Such beautiful stories are heard in different parts of the country.
    The ranks of servicepersons' families are growing in number. Among them are Om Pok Sun's family and Pak Yong Chol's family. Om has let her daughters stand on the post where she had guarded and all her family members put on the military uniform. Pak and his seven brothers stoutly take rifles in their hands.
    The idea of attaching importance to arms is manifested in heroic deeds. Hero Kil Yong Jo defended the revolutionary headquarters at the cost of his life. The heroes of Mujae Peak saved the revolutionary slogan-bearing trees, the eternal treasure of the Korean revolution with their lives. The fishermen of angle fishing net boat 1286 of the Onchon Fishing Company kept the portraits of the great men of Mt. Paektu to the last moment of their lives in the rough storm and tribulations.
    "Let us defend the revolutionary headquarters headed by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il at the cost of our lives!" This slogan represents the firm oath of the Korean people to take the idea of attaching importance to arms as the faith.