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National Meeting Held to Mark 76th Anniversary of KPA

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

   Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held to celebrate the 76th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army at the April 25 House of Culture on Thursday.
    Attending the meeting were senior party, army and state officials, the chairpersons of the friendly parties, officials of party, armed forces and power organs, social organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons, officials of scientific, educational, cultural and art, public health and media organizations, bereaved families of revolutionary martyrs, families of servicepersons, those who have distinguished themselves in assisting the army and working people in Pyongyang, overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland and the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.
    Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys of different countries, representatives of international organizations and members of the military attaches corps here.
    Vice-Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, in his report recalled that President Kim Il Sung founded the original Songun idea, the first of its kind in history, and, on this basis, declared to the whole world the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on April 25, Juche 21 (1932), adding that this marked a historic event which brought about a radical turning-point in carving out the destiny of the Korean people and developing the revolution.
    The KPA has guaranteed with arms the Korean people's revolutionary struggle for sovereignty, independence and socialism and honorably fulfilled its mission and duty as a main force for the Korean revolution under the care of the President and General Secretary Kim Jong Il in the whole historical course since its foundation, the reporter noted, and continued:
    Our revolutionary armed forces defeated with arms the Japanese imperialist aggressors in the hard-fought anti-Japanese revolutionary war and achieved the historic cause of the country's liberation under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, thus regaining the dignity and sovereignty of the nation and paving a wide avenue for building a rich and powerful independent and sovereign state.
    The KPA under his leadership defeated the U.S. imperialist aggressors, who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world, in the Fatherland Liberation War, thereby defending the DPRK and firmly guaranteeing with arms the Korean people's revolutionary struggle for the socialist revolution and socialist construction.
    It has creditably discharged its mission as a main force for the Korean revolution, performing unparalleled exploits in the sacred struggle to defend the socialist motherland and in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation under the experienced and tested leadership of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.
    What occupies a distinguished place in his leadership over the army building is that he set forth the modeling of the entire army on the Juche idea as the greatest programme for building the army, thus developing the KPA into the army of the leader and the party and laying a firm foundation of the Songun politics.
    Kim Jong Il fully established the Songun politics as the main political mode under socialism reflecting the requirements of the developing revolution in the 1990s, thus ushering in a new era of the Juche revolution, an era of Songun.
    Thanks to his Songun politics, a great turn has taken place in the political and ideological traits and fighting spirit of the People's Army and the driving force for the Korean revolution has grown remarkably stronger and the core and leading role of the KPA increased in the revolution and construction.
    The reporter underscored the need for all party members, the servicepersons and the people to deeply grasp the immortal Songun revolutionary history of Kim Il Sung and remain true to the Songun politics and the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il and thus strengthen the KPA into the eternal army of the President and the Supreme Commander and consolidate the single-minded unity of the party, the army and the people around the headquarters of the revolution in every way.
    The prevailing situation requires the whole party and army and all the people to get fully prepared to go into action with high alertness, the reporter said, and went on:
    The pro-U.S. sycophantic and bellicose conservative ruling forces of the "Grand National Party" which came to power in south Korea recently are working hard to overturn all achievements made by the north and the south after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, letting loose a spate of sophism such as "priority to the south Korea-U.S. relations", "complete solution of the north's nuclear issue" and "pragmatism" and blatantly swimming against the trend of the era of independent reunification. Worse still, reckless remarks calling for a "preemptive strike" at the DPRK are heard from among military brasshats.
    The KPA is following with high vigilance the south Korean authorities' sycophancy towards the U.S. and their moves for confrontation with the north and the moves of the military warmongers. It is fully prepared to counter any slightest move of the enemies for "preemptive strike" with advanced preemptive blows of its own style.
    The U.S. is now talking about "peace" and dialogue before us but behind the scene it is getting busy with the building of a triangular military alliance with south Korea and Japan on the basis of the scenario to stifle the DPRK and becoming frantic with the provocative arms buildup and exercises for a war of aggression, thus creating a touch-and-go situation.
    If the U.S. conservative hard-liners and their followers ignite a new war of aggression on the Korean Peninsula despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, its army and people will mobilize all the military potentials of Songun Korea built up for a long period of time and mercilessly strike and wipe out the aggressors and surely accomplish the historic cause of national reunification, the cherished desire of the Korean people.