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On the 8th of February 1948, the Korean People’s Army (KPA) was founded as a standing, regular revolutionary armed force by President KIM IL SUNG. The KPA was based on the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army which itself had originally been founded as the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army by President KIM IL SUNG on the 25th of April 1932. The KPA was an army of a new type, very different to armies in capitalist and imperialist countries President KIM IL SUNG explained that “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
In contrast, the army we have created today is a genuine people’s army made up of the sons and daughters of the workers, peasants and other sections of the Korean working people, which fights for the liberation and independence of the Korean nation and for the happiness of the masses against the imperialist aggressive forces from abroad and the reactionary forces at home. Therefore, should any enemy attempt to infringe upon our country’s freedom and destroy our people’s happy life, our People’s Army men will fight to the last drop of their blood to defeat him, and they will defend the country and the people to the bitter end. This is the most important feature of the People’s Army we have founded.”
The KPA was composed of the sons and daughters of the workers and peasants and fully defended the interests and rights of the workers and peasants. It fully inherited the traditions of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army which believed in serving the people.
Therefore as well as defending the lives of the people, the independence of the country and the socialist system, the KPA a true people’s army serves the people by actively taking part in the work of socialist construction.
When I first visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in May 1992 I actually saw soldiers of the KPA with their trouser legs rolled up in the rice paddies transplanting rice. On a later visit in the 1990s, I noticed KPA soldiers helping to construct the Pyongyang -Hyangsang motorway. The KPA took part in massive construction projects such as the West Sea Barrage in the 1980s and the Anbyon Power station in the 1990s. In recent years the soldier builders of the KPA participated in the construction of many new streets in Pyongyang such as Mirae Scientists Street and Ryomyong Street. The KPA also constructed the Ryonpha Greenhouse Farm.
When the DPRK was hit by floods and typhoons in 2016 and 2020, the KPA were dispatched to the affected areas and rapidly rehabilitated them, constructing new homes.
In May 2022 when the DPRK faced the unprecedented public health emergency caused by the sudden inroad of Covid 19 into the country, which was in fact deliberately spread by the south Korean puppets and the agents of imperialism, it was the medics of the KPA who turned out in the struggle to wipe out the illness. The KPA delivered medicines and took care of the sick. It was the actions of the KPA medics responding to the order of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN that proved decisive in wiping out Covid 19 in the DPRK in record time. The KPA again proved itself a true army of the people which takes care of their lives as well as being the stouthearted and trusty defender, the sword and shield, of the Juche-based socialist system which guarantees the lives and happiness of the Korean people.
Glory to the Korean People’s Army on the 75th anniversary of its foundation!
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman of British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea.
Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK.
Official Delegate KFA for the UK.
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK.
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula.
Hon Secretary General International Central Committee for Songun Study.
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