To Build up Self-reliant Defence Capabilities
On
February 8, Juche 37 (1948) the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army that
was founded during the anti-Japanese war was developed into the Korean
People’s Army, a regular armed force in Korea.
Marking
the day, all the service personnel and people in Korea are looking back
in deep emotion the undying exploits the peerlessly great persons of Mt
Paektu performed in the glorious history of the KPA.
Weapons,
together with soldiers, constitute the two essentials of the armed
forces. Any formidable enemy is no match for the army that is steadfast
in ideology and faith and fully prepared militarily and technologically.
President Kim Il Sung
attached great importance to the building of a regular revolutionary
armed force in the difficult days after Korea’s liberation. He clarified
that it was important in building an armed force to equip all the
soldiers with state-of-the-art weapons and military hardware, and wisely
led the establishment of Juche-oriented defence industry.
Still
in his military uniform worn during the anti-Japanese war, he went to
Phyongchon-ri in Pyongyang to select the site for the first munitions
factory and instilled into the officials confidence in victory that it
would be possible for them to manufacture rifles, guns and even tanks
when they buckled down to it with firm determination. And when the
workers and technicians at the munitions factory succeeded in producing a
submachine gun by their own efforts, he visited the factory and tested
the submachine gun by himself.
The
defence industry the President had built its foundation from scratch,
picturing the future of the country, has been consolidated under the
leadership of General Kim Jong Il .
Always
giving priority to the building up of the defence capabilities, the
General took important measures to further develop defence industry
while enforcing Songun politics in a comprehensive way.
He
devoted tireless efforts to make the defence industry self-supporting,
modern and IT-based in line with the requirements of the IT era in the
new century, so that it could develop new military hardware needed in
the modernization of the People’s Army and the arming of all the people
as well as improve their performance. Thanks to his energetic
leadership, the defence industry of the DPRK has developed into a
self-supporting one that is capable of producing as one wishes modern
weapons and powerful military hardware in larger amounts and at a higher
qualitative level.
At
present the defence industry of the DPRK is ushering in a new chapter
of its development under the outstanding leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un .
Under
his leadership the self-supporting arsenal of the country that was
launched with the Yongil bombs in the forests of Mt Paektu and the
submachine gun in Phyongchon-ri is now readily manufacturing precise and
powerful military hardware fully capable of coping with warfare of any
type by its own efforts and technology in succession.
The
respected Marshal who put forward the strategic line of simultaneously
promoting economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces
has energetically led the country’s defence industry and the defence
science and technology to readily manufacture cutting-edge military
hardware.
Great
successes in the tests of the first hydrogen bomb and nuclear warhead
explosion last year have placed the DPRK in the front rank of world
nuclear powers and ended the history of the US imperialists’ bloody
aggression and nuclear war.
The
Korean People’s Army that is firmly supported by the Juche-oriented
defence industry laid by the great Generalissimos and the Marshal is
demonstrating to the full the dignity of the invincible revolutionary
army equipped with modern means of attack and defence
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