Great Tradition of Victory - Immortal in Annals of Our Republic

 2023.7.26.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/17186

We are now living in a historic era – a new heyday in the cause of building a prosperous nation with an invincible army, the prime of national prestige and overall national power. It is against this backdrop that our people are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the great victory in war with confidence in sure victory, and an exceptional pride and confidence of a victorious nation.

President Kim Il Sung led the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) to victory with his Juche-oriented military idea and the outstanding art of military command. He repelled the armed invasion of the U.S. and the allied imperialist forces in their attempt to swallow up our young Republic in its infancy, shattering into pieces the American myth of “mightiness”, and honorably safeguarded the dignity and sovereignty of our Republic and peace for mankind.

President Kim Il Sung inspired all the officers and men of the People’s Army and the entire people to the struggle for victory in the war, having set forth, as early as in the first period of the war, the original ideas of turning the war into an all-people war and of defeating the enemy’s numerical and technical advantage by dint of politico-ideological, and strategic and tactical advantage.

President Kim Il Sung visited the soldiers on the bullet-showered heights and the people in the bombarded rear time and again to instill the invincible strength and courage into their minds and bestowed his solicitude on them. Encouraged by the dedication, leadership and warm love of his, our army and people performed military miracles and heroic feats unprecedented in the world history of wars.

Keeping deep in their hearts such slogans as “For the Party and the leader!”, “For the fatherland and people!”, the officers and men of the People’s Army waged a fierce anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle to perform heroic feats and achieve legendary victories one after another that sent the waves of awe throughout the world. Amid such waves, the so-called “undefeated division” of the U.S. was annihilated on this land, the U.S. air pirates boasting of their “air supremacy” were shot down one after another in the Korean sky and the U.S. heavy cruiser that professed itself as a “floating island” was reduced to a lonely, underwater ghost.

The hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War was an ideological showdown which taught us the philosophy that no aggressors could be a match for the people who rose up for a do-or-die battle, firmly rallied behind their leader, no matter how strong the aggressors might be, being armed to their teeth.

The precious victory and the tradition of invincibility achieved and established by the gallant officers and men of the People’s Army and the heroic Korean people, are etched in gold letters in the history of the country. They are the accomplishments attributable to the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, an outstanding military strategist and an iron-willed commander.

Today, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, with his ingenuity in military strategy and outstanding courage of a peerless, illustrious commander born of heaven, is achieving decisive victories one after another in the fierce showdown with formidable imperialism, each signal victory deserving a note in the history of our nation. He is thus adding lustre to the great tradition of victory of heroic Korea.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is of the firm belief that strength constitutes the very root of national existence and the guarantee for development. Based on such a conviction, he cut through danger zones and turbulent airs, and braved rough seas to make it to the powder smoke-covered training fields, inspired our soldiers with courage and confidence in victory, thus consolidating rock-firm the world’s strongest self-defense capabilities.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un has made, all by himself, his way to the building of the matchless national power, leaving indelible, sacred traces. Under his leadership, the Korean People’s Army has now grown into an invincible revolutionary force, armed with our Party’s Juche-oriented military idea and tactics, under the uplifted banner of modelling the entire army on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. It has also grown into the world’s strongest invincible army equipped with absolute weaponry that would send the enemies shuddering with fear, as well as the powerful crack army possessing formidable strike power and overwhelming military strength that can surely overpower all sorts of tyranny of the imperialists.

The great tradition of heroic Korea - established in the depths of the forest of Mt. Paektu through bloody battles against the Japanese imperialists, the very tradition that glorified the great era of victory in the war - will remain immortal in the annals of our Republic.