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Title of Generalissimo Associated with Boundless Reverence

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

   Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung was awarded the title of Generalissimo of the DPRK on April 13, Juche 81 (1992).
    The title is permeated with heartfelt reverence of the servicepersons and people for the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu who founded the heroic Korean People's Army, revolutionary armed forces, and defeated two imperialisms with his outstanding military ability in one generation to defend the dignity and sovereignty of the nation.
    The President was handed over two pistols carrying the lofty patriotic will from his father Kim Hyong Jik in his early years. He, giving priority to arms, dedicated his whole life to the struggle for the freedom and liberation of the country and to the happiness of the people.
    He applied strategy, tactics and guerrilla war methods unprecedented in the history to the war against Japanese imperialism. They are still shining as miracle in the world military history.
    The DPRK under the guidance of the brilliant commander also wrought a military miracle in the 1950s.
    He with his unique war tactics shattered into smithereens "the myth of mightiness" of U.S. imperialism which started the war to stamp out the young DPRK, thus striking the military experts of the world with admiration.
    In the efforts for defending socialism for scores of years, too, he brought the U.S. imperialists to their knees and safeguarded the destiny of the country and the nation without a gun report.
    President Kim Il Sung was the genius of military who created Juche-oriented military ideology, strategy, tactics and war methods, the legendary great man who won victory after victory and the iron-willed brilliant commander who adorned his great life with unheard-of miracles. In praise of his exploits, the Korean servicepersons and people conferred the title of Generalissimo on him on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
    This was an appreciation by the history, the will of the nation and the demand of the times.