(1888PressRelease)
April 24, 2007 - On December 24, Juche 80 (1991), the leader Kim Jong Il was appointed the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army.
For 16 years since then he has defended the destiny of the country by executing the Songun revolutionary leadership. He has developed the Korean People’s Army into invincible forces, and, relying on it, led the Korean revolution along the road of victory.
On the basis of the military idea and philosophy centring on armymen he has strengthened the KPA powerful enough to defend the national sovereignty,.
He saw to it that the entire army turned out in the campaign to win the title of “O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment” and made the WPK’s political work within the army done the way they do on the battlesite in keeping with the actual requirements.
He had the revolutionary command system and military morale established throughout the army to act as one by the order of the Supreme Commander. He made sure that all the KPA officers and men developed into omnipotent commanding personnel and a-match-for-a-hundred-foe combatants by arming themselves with the Korean-style methods of fighting and modern military knowledge and acquiring unique tactics, excellent marksmanship and strong physical force.
His wise leadership strengthened the KPA ideologically and politically, militarily and technically. The KPA has grown up into revolutionary forces that can defeat any formidable enemy, and safeguarded the idea and ideology, system and tradition of the nation without any fire in the showdown with the US imperialists.
Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il, regarding the single-hearted unity as the mainstay in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, has achieved the steel-strong unity on the strength of Songun politics.
Shouldering the destiny of the nation, he has kept inspecting army units on the Chol Pass, Mt. Osong, Heights 1211 and 351 and so on, leaving deep in the minds of all the Koreans the philosophy that he is just the destiny and future of Korea.
Rallied firmly behind him, the Korean people have surmounted uncountable difficulties impending over the Korean revolution, thus bringing about a revolutionary upsurge in the building of a prosperous nation.
The KPA has performed as the main force in building a powerful nation, making breakthroughs in the main sectors of the national economy; all the people have vigorously accelerated the socialist construction, emulating the revolutionary soldier spirit of the KPA. This single-hearted unity was the source of the heroic exploits and miracles.
Many monumental edifices—they were regarded as formidable things in the past—were erected decently in the new century, including a great number of large-, medium- and small-sized power stations, modern stockbreeding farms, basic foodstuff and light industrial factories and large-sized gravity-fed waterways. Remarkable successes were also registered in the land realignment projects and the scientific and technical development.
The imperialists said that “the collapse of north Korea is a matter of time”; however, Korea has become stronger and is now well on the track toward prosperity.
Kim Jong Il brought forth the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration by following the principle of national independence and the policy of reunification-motivated patriotism. Thus the confrontation relation between the north and the south changed to the one of reconciliation and cooperation, and a radical phase was brought about in the reunification movement to realize the country’s reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
Now nobody dares to bargain over the dignity and fundamental interests of the Koreans.
The situation on the Korean peninsula is still tense. There will be no vacillation about the Korean-style socialism as long as Kim Jong Il stands at the helm, though.
