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Eternal Foundation for Building of Songun Korea Laid by President Kim Il Sung

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

   Pyongyang, September 13 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung is the great leader who built a powerful socialist country strong in independence on this land by dint of Songun.
    The President, who liberated the country by leading the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory, put forward the line of building a new country and three tasks of building a party, state and army for its implementation in his historic speech "On Building the Party, State and Armed Forces in the Liberated Homeland" in August Juche 34 (1945) when a sacred task for building an independent and sovereign state was raised.
    He set forth the policy of founding the party involving the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters as its core and revolutionaries active at home and abroad. He pushed ahead with the work for carrying it into practice and thus founded the Workers' Party of Korea, the political general staff of the Korean revolution, on October 10, 1945.
    After the foundation of the Party, he instituted military educational organs including Pyongyang Institute and a munitions factory for founding modern regular armed forces. He, basing himself on this, reorganized the Korean People's Revolutionary Army as the Korean People's Army on February 8, 1948, thus providing a sure guarantee for protecting the construction of an independent and sovereign state by the efforts of the Korean people.
    In the days of the anti-Japanese war, he advanced and brilliantly materialized the line of building a Juche-oriented government. After the liberation of the country, he also successfully accomplished the great cause of establishing the people's government, backed by the armed forces.
    He led the revolutionary armed forces to firmly defend the borders and coast lines and the precious lives of the people and the valuable properties of the country such as railways, industrial establishments and reservoirs as well as the activities of the people's committees.
    The servicepersons of the Korean People's Army foiled the enemies' ceaseless military provocations along the 38th parallel (demarcation line) and defended the revolutionary democratic base in the northern half of Korea.
    The founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 9, 1948 under the wise leadership of the President enabled the Korean people to conduct proud activities in the international arena.
    Thanks to the eternal foundation for building the Songun-based country provided by the President, the DPRK has pushed ahead vigorously with the cause of building a rich and powerful country, increasing the defence capabilities of the nation by dint of Songun and shattering all the aggression and challenge of the imperialists at every step in the grave periods of the revolution -- the Fatherland Liberation War, the postwar rehabilitation and construction, socialist revolution and socialist construction.
    Under the Songun politics of General Secretary Kim Jong Il today the political and military potentials of the DPRK are increased in every way and its dignity and might demonstrated to the whole world.