The Korean People’s Army(KPA) origins go back to the 25th of April 1932 rather than simply the 8th of February 1948 when the KPA was founded as a regular revolutionary armed force . In fact the KPA was founded as the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army , which later became the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army(KPRA ) in March 1934 , on the 25th of April by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG in Antu, Manchuria where many Koreans had been exiled to because of the harshness and barbarity of Japanese imperialist colonial rule in Korea.
President KIM IL SUNG in his speech to the ceremony to found the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army declared that;
“The AJPGA is made up of the workers, peasants and young patriots who oppose the Japanese imperialists and their stooges and love their country and people; it is a revolutionary armed force which will dedicate itself to protecting the interests of the people.
The aim and mission of the people’s guerrilla army is to overthrow the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism in Korea and bring national independence and social emancipation to the Korean people.”
The above words of President KIM IL SUNG adroitly summed up the nature , role and mission of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army (AJPGA) .It was an army of workers and peasants as well as patriotic youth and it was a revolutionary armed force which aimed at not only national liberation but freeing the people from the shackles of feudalism , landlordism and capitalism.
President KIM IL SUNG also stressed that the AJPGA was a self-reliant , Juche-based revolutionary armed force saying that
“We are now fighting against formidable Japanese imperialism under difficult circumstances, with neither home front nor foreign aid.
We must believe only in our united strength and have the firm conviction that we can defeat the enemy by our own strength. By our own strength I mean the organized and united masses of the people.”
The KPRA fought with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the Juche Idea . They seized weapons from the Japanese aggressors or manufactured their own . Some hoped that the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, would supply them with a hand-grenade factory but this never materialised so they made their own hand-grenades the 'Yongil bomb'(of course today the DPRK has its own nuclear 'Yongil bomb'.)
In March 1934 the Anti Japanese People's Guerrilla Army became the Korean People's Revolutionary Army . Under the command of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG, an ever victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, the stout hearted and heroic guerrilla revolutionary fighters of the KPRA fought many battles against the Japanese imperialist aggressors such the battle of Pochonbo and the battle of Musan to name just a few . The battle of Pochonbo on the 4 June 1937 was most significant as it symbolises the KPRA's advance into the Korean homeland.
The hard and arduous struggle of the AJPGA led by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG paid off in the end on the 9th of August 1945 general KIM IL SUNG gave the order for the final offensive against the Japanese marauders . The KPRA together with Soviet army units surged into Korea , the KPRA often taking the lead in the more difficult battles. On August 15 1945 Korea was liberated at last from Japanese imperialist rule.
After liberation President KIM IL SUNG made the foundation of a standing , regular revolutionary armed force the order of the day and the guerilla based KPRA became the regular Korean People’s Army(KPA) on the 8th of February 1948 . Since then the KPA has stood guard over the independence of People’s Korea and the gains of Juche-based socialism .
The KPA received a baptism of fire in June 1950 when the US imperialists and ROK puppets invaded in the DPRK but the KPA inflicted a crushing defeat on the US imperialists in the great Fatherland Liberation War of 1950-1953.The KPA also defeated the US in the ‘Pueblo incident’,'EC121 incident’, ‘Panmunjom incident’ of 1976 and the 1994 helicopter shoot down incident.
The KPA under the command of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, has defended the sovereignty and honour of People’s Korea during the intense confrontation with US imperialism in the second decade of the 21st century .Thanks to the steadfastness of the KPA which is now equipped with nukes and ICBMs , the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula was averted in 2013, 2015 and 2017 .
Glory to the KPA , the inheritor and continuer of the traditions of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army and defender of Juche-based socialism !
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman , Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Hon secretary general International Central Committee for Songun Study
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