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True People's Army, Invincible Revolutionary Armed Forces

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

   Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung delivered a speech "Let Us Found a True People's Army, a Modern Regular Army" at the banquet of the third graduation ceremony of Pyongyang Institute on October 5, Juche 36 (1947). He, in the speech, put forward the direction and way for building true people's armed forces which would carry forward the revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army.
    The famous work served as guidelines in strengthening and developing the army into the people's army, a modern regular army which would defend the country and the gains of the revolution from the encroachment of the imperialists and all the class foes and firmly guarantee the building of an independent and sovereign state and the cause of the socialist construction by force of arms.
    The Korean People's Army (KPA) which was strengthened and developed to be invincible revolutionary armed forces under his wise leadership has carried on with credit its mission and duty assigned by the Party, the leader, the country and the people.
    During the Fatherland Liberation War, the officers and men of the People's Army covered the enemy's pillboxes with their bodies to ensure the advance of the units and became human-bombs to wipe out the enemy soldiers by displaying unrivalled heroism and noble patriotism, thus protecting with honor the freedom and independence of the country.
    In the postwar period, too, they reliably safeguarded the security of the country and people and the gains of the revolution, smashing the ceaseless war moves of the imperialists at every step.
    The servicepersons of the KPA took upon themselves the national defence and socialist construction in the middle of the 1990s when the country and the people should undergo grave ordeals. They erected tremendous edifices for the happiness of the people in different parts of the country while increasing the combat capability of the army.
    Today the KPA is fully discharging its lofty mission and duty as the defender and creator of the people's happiness, the vanguard of the times in the ideological, moral and cultural life, and the main force to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche. It is also demonstrating its might as the matchless elite armed forces which are capable of wiping out any aggressors at a stroke.