On the 8th of February 1948 some 77 years ago , the Korean People’s Army was established as a regular revolutionary armed force of People’s Korea by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG . The 8th February marked the transformation of the guerrilla-based Korean Peoples’ Revolutionary Army, that had been founded in the forests of Manchuria by comrade KIM IL SUNG , into a standing armed force of the Korean revolution which stands guard over the achievements of Korean style socialism .
After liberation from Japanese imperialist rule in August 1945 President KIM IL SUNG put the issue of forming regular armed forces on the agenda . He keenly perceived the danger of US aggression against the new People’s Korea which had been set up on the ruins of Japanese colonialism . In his historic work “ ON FOUNDING THE PARTY, STATE AND ARMED FORCES IN THE LIBERATED HOMELAND” made on the 20th of August 1945 only five days after liberation , President KIM IL SUNG said “ We must form a revolutionary regular army through our own efforts whatever the obstacles.
We have solid assets for the formation of a revolutionary regular army. In the gloomiest days of Japanese imperialist colonial rule the Korean communists organized the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, the first revolutionary people’s armed force in our country, consisting of advanced workers, peasants and patriotic youth. The members of the KPRA united as one man and fought courageously for the liberation of the homeland and the honour of the nation. Through the trying ordeals of the 15-year-long anti-Japanese armed struggle for national independence and social emancipation, the KPRA matured, to become an army of invincible iron ranks, an army of cadres, prepared politically and militarily. This means that firm foundations have already been laid for us, so that we can immediately form our revolutionary regular armed forces.”
The above passage clearly expresses the resolve of President KIM IL SUNG to create an independent regular armed force of the new Korea and not to rely on others for defence .
President KIM IL SUNG also established an independent munitions industry at Pyongchon. By 1948 People’s Korea was able manufacture its own sub-machine guns.
On the 8th of February 1948 ,some 7 months before the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was founded , the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army was transformed into the Korean People’s Army , a standing and regular armed force that was composed of the sons and daughters of the workers and peasants .It was totally different to the armies of the imperialist and capitalist countries which served the interests of the ruling bourgeoisie , oppressing the people and carrying out wars of imperialist conquest . The Korean People’s Army(KPA) was and is a true people’s army that stands guard over the socialist gains of the Korean people as well as the independence of the DPRK .
The young KPA had a baptism of fire in the 1950s when it faced the armies of not just the US imperialists and ROK puppets but the armies of 15 satellite states of the US imperialists in the Fatherland Liberation War . The KPA commanded by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG , an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander , inflicted an enormous defeat on the US imperialists and their minions . In the period after the Fatherland Liberation War , the KPA commanded by President KIM IL SUNG and guided by Chairman KIM JONG IL faced down the US imperialists in confrontations such as the “Pueblo Incident 1968 “ , the EC121 incident 1969 and the Panmunjom Incident of 1976. Under the leadership of Chairman KIM JONG IL the KPA defended Juche-based socialism in the post-Cold War showdown with the US over the DPRK’s nuclear programme. The KPA came to be a mighty force equipped with nuclear weapons and ICBMS.
Under the command of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , the supreme commander of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK , the KPA has been built even more powerfully . It now has hypersonic missiles and military reconnaissance satellites . Whilst defending the country the KPA is also engaged in construction work such as the construction of regional industry factories and housing . Today the KPA is the great guardian of independence , peace and socialism .
Glory to the 77th anniversary of the foundation of the KPA as a standing and regular revolutionary armed force.
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea.
Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK .
Vice -Chair OCIFPGPP
Hon Secretary general Global Farmy for the Study of People-First Policies of Respected Comrade KIM JONG UN
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