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Kim Jong Il's Aphorism on Class Consciousness of Soldier

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

   Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il said "the rifle of a soldier without working-class consciousness and revolutionary resolution is less than a stick in effect." This aphorism has the profound meaning that only when a soldier with a rifle has a high degree of working-class consciousness and revolutionary resolution can he fulfill his responsibility and duty.
    Today the DPRK is carrying on the revolution and construction under a tense situation in which it stands face to face with the U.S. imperialists, the ringleader of aggression and war.
    Therefore, socialism can be built with credit only when the army is fully prepared as an invincible one.
    To this end, it is important above all to raise class consciousness and revolutionary resolution of soldiers.
    The working-class consciousness means the scientific understanding of one's position and interests. And the revolutionary resolution means the firm determination to fight at the cost of one's life for the victory of the revolution and the will to remain faithful to the revolution to the last moment of one's life under any difficulty.
    A decisive factor of victory in a war is the masses of soldiers with a high degree of class consciousness, not weapons.
    If a soldier slackens vigilance even a moment, captivated by indolence, it will bring an irrevocably grave consequence to the security of the country and the destiny of the revolution.
    Only when a soldier is armed with transparent working-class consciousness and has firm revolutionary resolution can his rifle discharge its mission as a weapon of the working class and revolution and hit its target without fail.
    All the soldiers of the Korean People's Army who are possessed of the unswerving faith and will to devotedly protect socialism and the true happiness of the people are tightly holding the rifles of the working class and the revolution, bearing the aphorism of Kim Jong Il deep in their minds.