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Kim Jong Il, Songun Commader with Unparalleled Courage and Grit

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

   Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, who was born in Mt. Paektu and grew up in battle sites rocked by gun reports, is a brilliant Songun commander with unparalleled courage and grit.
    The pages of the history of Songun revolution of Korea led by Kim Jong Il are filled with amazing events moving people with the thrill of a victor.
    It was in January Juche 57 (1968) when the U.S. imperialits' armed spy ship Pueblo was captured, which was an event that shook the world.
    Determined to seize the initiative in smashing the enemy's "retaliation", Kim Jong Il put forward concrete military countermeasures along with strategic and tactical plans to frustrate the "blitzkrieg" of the enemy at one blow in an event of war, thus making the arrogant U.S. imperialists shudder.
    It was in August 1976 when a hair-trigger situation was created by the "Panmunjom incident" caused by the U.S. imperialists. He called soliders back to rest homes, saying their songs should reverberate through the rest homes even if a war might break out.
    When the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean reactionaries were hell bent on various war exercises in 1981, he gave orders to mobilize people's army soldiers to the peaceful construction of a gigantic barrage, thus making the enemy sober up in the war frenzy.
    In the first half of the 1990s when the sovereignty of the nation and the supreme interests of the country were facing a grave threat due to the U.S. nuclear blackmail and war adventure, the DPRK under his courage and grit declared a semi-war state and took the decisive step of quiting the NPT to crop the U.S. imperialists' feathers under the eye of the world.
    In the days when the destiny of the country was at stake, he played a yut-game with soldiers and taught them how to play it on his way to the front. And he wisely led grand socialist construction at its head with iron will and grit to continue construction till 12 o'clock tonight even though a war might break out tomorrow.
    His courage and grit always bringing victory, the army and people of Korea could launch into gigantic land rezoning and bring into being such grand edifices as the Anbyon Youth Power Station, the Youth Hero Motorway and Kumrung Tunnel No 2, overflowing with the optimism of sure victory in the days of untold difficulties.
    The DPRK will always emerge victorious as it is led by Kim Jong Il, the brilliant Songun commander of Mt. Paektu,