February 8th 1948 is a day etched in history; it was on this day in People’s Korea , that the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army(KPRA) , the stout-hearted ever-victorious guerrilla force of Juche that had defeated Japanese imperialism was transformed into a standing, regular revolutionary armed force that stood guard over the independence of People’s Korea and the gains of people’s democracy when the great leader President KIM IL SUNG founded the Korean People’s Army with the KPRA as its backbone. As president KIM IL SUNG said to the review parade of the Korean People’s Army ;
“Any independent and sovereign state has its own army. It goes without saying that no state can be completely independent and sovereign without its own army. Our country was occupied by the Japanese imperialists because the Korean people had no army of their own strong enough to defeat the Japanese imperialist aggressor army.
Therefore, if our country is to become a completely independent and sovereign state it is indispensable to have a mighty people’s army capable of defending the country and the nation and of repulsing any enemy invasion. The need to create their own army became very urgent and vital for the Korean people, particularly in the serious circumstances whereby our country’s reunification, independence and sovereignty have been held back for more than two years since liberation as a result of the vicious manoeuvrings on the part of the US imperialists and their lackeys to split our nation and turn our country once again into a colony.”
Thus Juche Korea came to have its own standing and regular revolutionary armed force, capable of defeating any aggressor.For 74 years the Korean People’s Army has guarded the peaceful labour of the Korean people and the achievements of Juche socialism. The Korean People’s Army under the command of President KIM IL SUNG, an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, defeated the US imperialist aggressors in the great Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s and the confrontations with the US that followed in the 1960s and 1970s such as the ‘Pueblo ‘ Affair (1968 ) and the Panmunjom incident (1976 ). Later Chairman KIM JONG IL led the KPA to thwart the moves of the US imperialists in the acute standoffs during the 1990s and 2000s. Under the command of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN, the KPA is defending not only the independence of Juche Korea but the destiny of world socialism.
There are two important facts about the foundation of the Korean People’s Army. Firstly, in accordance with the Songun idea it was founded before the state, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK ) which was founded on the 9th of September 1948 some 7 months later. Secondly, it was totally different to the reactionary armed forces of the imperialist and capitalist countries. Again as President KIM IL SUNG pointed out “The army of a capitalist country is organized to defend and maintain by force of arms the system of oppression and exploitation of the working people—the vast majority of the population—in the interests of a handful of capitalists and landlords and to attack other nations and invade the territories of other countries. We saw this kind of army vividly in Hitler Germany and militarist Japan, and we see it now in all capitalist countries. In particular, the US army that after the war entered countries such as China and Greece, which were not defeated nations, and interfered in their internal affairs, and enforced military government in south Korea, refusing to withdraw, has become the prototype of the predatory imperialist army of today.”
The Korean People’s Army is an army of the sons and daughters of workers and peasants that staunchly defends their interests and safeguards Juche-based socialism. Not only that but it actually takes part in socialist construction. Many structures in the DPRK are associated with the work of the KPA such as the West Sea Barrage and the Anbyon Power Station. When floods hit the DPRK several times in the past years, the KPA were first on the scene offering assistance and helping to rehouse people.
The KPA has also assisted the peoples of different countries fighting against imperialism, for example, Cuba, Vietnam and Egypt to name a few. The KPA is a profoundly internationalist army.
We salute the 74th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Army !
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
Chairman KFA UK
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula
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