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Kim Jong Il Orders Promotion of Military Ranks of Commanding Officers of KPA

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

   Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il issued Order No. 0019 to promote the military ranks of commanding officers of the KPA on April 15.
    He stressed in the order that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK which President Kim Il Sung founded and led along the path of victory and glory have grown strong to be a-match-for-a hundred revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu fully armed with the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and are demonstrating the might of the driving force for the revolution in defending the country and building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.
    He noted that he ordered the promotion of the military ranks of commanding officers of the KPA on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, expressing the firm belief that the commanding officers of the KPA who have grown under the care of the Workers' Party of Korea and the leader would firmly defend the ideology, the system and the cause in the DPRK and creditably fulfill their mission and duty in the sacred struggle for the final victory of the Songun revolutionary cause started by the President, remaining true to the leadership of the WPK in the future, too.
    According to the order, the military ranks of Kang Kuk Jong and Paek Yong Chol have been promoted to lieutenant generals and those of Choe Kwang Jun and 32 others to major generals.