Three years have passed since Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was appointed the
Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) on December 30,
2011.
Three years are not a long period, but the world saw in him the image
of an outstanding military commander, who has consolidated the
military strength of his country steel-strong and thus defended the
peace and security of his country and fellow people and of the region
surrounding the Korean peninsula.
On January 1, two days after being appointed the Supreme Commander of
the KPA, he inspected the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th
Tank Division. He then inspected many KPA units and subunits,
including those on the frontline, guiding the drills of the soldiers
at firing positions, windy runways and once on a sailing torpedo
boat, instilling in them ever-victorious courage and confidence and
teaching them operational tactics so as to frustrate the threat and
challenges of the US-led allied imperialist forces.
Well-versed in the cutting-edge military science and technology and
in military hardware, he has taken new measures aimed at developing
the defence industry. True to his intention, the March 2013 Plenary
Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
(WPK) advanced the line of building up the economy and nuclear forces
in parallel, and the Seventh Session of the Twelfth Supreme People’s
Assembly of the DPRK proved a legal guarantee for the country as a
nuclear and space power. These measures remarkably increased the
DPRK’s war deterrent, making no other country dare to attack it.
In the course of frustrating the enemy’s reckless nuclear threat
and blackmail and war moves, he has demonstrated the matchless mettle
and courage becoming an iron-willed, brilliant commander.
In August 2012, when the US was going to stage the largest-ever Ulji
Freedom Guardian war game in south Korea by enlisting even its vassal
states, Kim Jong Un went aboard a 27hp vessel to the KPA units
defending the islands on the hottest point in the southernmost region
of the southwestern front to inspect them. The fact that he made his
appearance on a small wooden boat in front of the enemy equipped with
large-sized vessels, aircraft, state-of-the-art firepower equipment
and high-precision monitoring facilities startled the world
community. It was an acme of the display of mettle and courage that
could not be found in the biography of any military commander. That
day he ordered that, if the enemy was bold enough to drop a single
shell into the waters or the area within the reach of the DPRK’s
sovereignty, the KPA soldiers must not restrict it to a local war on
the southwestern front but lead it to a sacred war for national
reunification, and if the aggressors launched a war, they must make
the West Sea the final grave of the enemy.
Over the past three years the world saw in him the image of a
benevolent commander who ardently loves the soldiers and turns the
entire army into the ranks of comrades-in-arms based on warm
comradeship.
He has ensured that the political work of the KPA is conducted with
the main emphasis put on consolidating the single-hearted unity, the
integral whole, of the entire army true to the slogan “Let the
entire army become ranks of true comrades-in-arms!”
Saying that it is his determination and will to share life and death
with the soldiers at posts and devote his all for their sake, he
showers them with maternal affection; whenever he inspects army
units, he looks round the bedrooms, mess halls, subsidiary food
stores, wash rooms and sideline farming bases, acquainting himself
with their living conditions; he asks the officers to look after the
rank and file as they would do their kith and kin, always remembering
that they exist for the latter and that the latter do not exist for
them, so that they can serve in the army in good health and full of
optimism.
He once sent a gift to an officer’s son, who was greeting his first
birthday. At another time he posed for a souvenir photograph with
scores of soldiers one by one during a visit to their unit.
When some soldiers on a combat mission died unexpectedly, he burned
midnight oil, looking at their photos one by one, and while looking
round the tomb of these fallen soldiers, he ensured that his name was
inscribed on the tombstone, saying that he would become the owner of
the tomb.
Moved by his ennobling affection and sense of obligation, all the
soldiers have formed ranks of comrades-in-arms, who, hand-in-hand and
shoulder-to-shoulder with their Supreme Commander, share ideas and
intentions with him and be in step with him.
Over the past three years the world also saw in him the image of a
peerless military commander who works world-startling miracles and
innovations in economic construction as well as in defending the
country by raising the status of the army to that of vanguard. Having
initiated building a world-class ski resort on Masik Pass, he
entrusted the task to the soldiers and led them to finish the
project, which others had said would take more than ten years, in a
little over one year. And he has ensured that the whole country learn
after the “Masikryong speed,” which the soldier-builders created,
so as to bring about continuous leaps and innovations in the overall
building of a thriving socialist country. He also gave them the task
of building apartment houses for the educationists at Kim Il Sung
University and Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang Baby
Home and Orphanage, Unha Scientists Street, Wisong Scientists
Dwelling District and so on, and frequently visited their
construction sites, leading the soldier-builders to build the
monumental structures for people in an excellent way.
Under his leadership they not only finished these projects but built
many other structures on the world standards, like the Mirim Riding
Club, Munsu Water Park, Songdowon International Children’s Camp,
Okryu Children’s Hospital and Ryugyong Dental Hospital for people’s
welfare.
In the future, the world will see other images of Kim Jong Un who
will achieve one success after another in defending socialism and
building a thriving country by relying on the powerful military
capability of his country.
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