Groundbreaking Ceremony of Largest-ever Greenhouse Farm and Vegetable Science Research Centre Held with Splendor

 

Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- There started another important undertaking for regional development to be specially recorded in the new era of great transformations, when the people-first ideal of the Workers’ Party of Korea is being comprehensively realized.

In December last year, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the inauguration ceremony of a modern country city in the Sinuiju area, whose looks had undergone a radical change after eradicating the aftermath of the severe flooding. At the ceremony he declared a grand new construction plan for greater regional change and bestowed great favour of personally dispatching the construction workforce for the project.

Thanks to the warm sincerity of the dear father, who is unfolding a brighter future in the people’s cradle built on the road of his devoted efforts for the flood victims, a largest-ever modern greenhouse farm and a vegetable science research base will be built in Hadan-ri in Sinuiju, a gateway city in the country, and in Soho-ri in Uiju County, as structures, symbolic of the lively and bold progress in regional rejuvenation.

A groundbreaking ceremony of a 450-hectare greenhouse farm and vegetable science research centre took place with splendour on February 10.

Officers and men of the Navy and Air Force units of the Korean People’s Army and commanding officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade to be involved in the undertaking for the gigantic regional transformation lined up at the venue of the ceremony.

Kim Jong Un attended the ceremony.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers in reflection of their highest tribute to the benevolent father of the great socialist family, who has pioneered the unprecedented sacred revolution, called the comprehensive regional development, of successfully achieving the long-cherished desire of the people across the country, and is ushering in a new era of high civilization and prosperity shining with the people’s laughter and the promotion of their wellbeing.

Pak Thae Song and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and other senior Party, government and military officials were present at the ceremony together with the builders.

Pak Thae Song, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made the groundbreaking speech.

Noting that grand greenhouse farms on a modern, intensive and industrial footing have been built one after another in the era of transformations led by the great Party, and thereby a new path of improving the people’s living standards is being hewed out, the premier said that the edifices of the times built in different parts of the country are the crystallization of the ennobling desire and bold leadership activities of the Party that orients everything towards providing the people with a more affluent life and ushers in a golden age of construction, self-sustenance and self-respect unprecedented in history.

Construction of the greenhouse farm, the fourth of its kind in recent years, is an important state affair to be carried out thanks to the ennobling intentions of Comrade Kim Jong Un to turn this island area, where only sandy dust floated by the strong river wind, into a socialist paradise where the people will lead a highly civilized and affluent life, he noted.

According to his plan and intentions, not only different types of vegetable greenhouses, vegetable processing factory and storages but also a vegetable science research centre, trial cultivation greenhouses, hundreds of flats, hostels and neighbourhood-serving amenities will be built simultaneously here in this area vaster than that of all the large-scale greenhouse farms built in recent years put together, he said.

If the large-scale greenhouse farm which will be put on a scientific and IT footing is built with the modern houses standing in rows showing the true picture of socialism on the shore of the Amnok River as the background, this island area will enjoy fame as a new model of regional development with its own strong potentials of development and as a brilliant symbol of prosperity in our era, he stressed.

Noting that the current construction project is a link in the whole chain of the struggle to turn Sinuiju into an advanced city which will vividly show and represent the development and might of socialist Korea and an important political undertaking for displaying the advantages of our Party’s policy on regional development, the premier affirmed that the large-scale project will be certainly and triumphantly concluded thanks to the clear-cut policy of the construction revolution indicated by the great Party, our strong conviction and indomitable fighting spirit and the army-people unity.

Kim Jong Un made a rallying speech.

The speech reads as follows:

Officers and soldiers of the Navy and Air Force units of the Korean People’s Army, which are famed for their ardent spirit of patriotism and brilliant exploits,

Officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade with the most honourable name,

I extend my warm encouragement to you, who have come to the important construction site with a high ambition of playing a major role in implementing the Party’s far-reaching plan.

As I have already clarified, our Party and government are planning to implement a new, promising regional development project on the shore of this Amnok River, where damage caused by a natural calamity was removed and a new socialist life has settled.

The site for the construction of a large greenhouse farm, on which we are now standing, will symbolize our cause of rejuvenating the whole country through a continuous, accelerated struggle, and it will provide another clear picture of the higher stage and processes of development of the regional and rural rejuvenation as has been designed by our Party.

I take pride in launching this ambitious regional development project, yet I feel more proud of the fact that I have entrusted the important task of carrying out this project to our most faithful large combined units of the services of the revolutionary armed forces and the youth brigade whose members are in a soaring spirit to wage an unyielding struggle.

Wherever miraculous successes are achieved and legendary tales of construction are created, I can see the officers and soldiers of the Navy and Air Force units. This is by no means coincidental, and I believe it is an inevitable relationship between you and me, as we always share purpose.

I am convinced that the officers and soldiers of our Navy and Air Force and the officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade will give full play to their qualities as befits the elite ranks that are carrying forward the great pioneering spirit with great creations and transformations, and thus present the most splendid and satisfactory structure to our country and people.

Comrades,

We are filled with confidence and courage great enough to change the times because we believe in our own strength, and we have the army and young people who are infinitely loyal to the Party’s leadership. And we are pushing our way uninterruptedly towards a powerful country along the path that nobody else in the world has ever trodden because our heroic army and young people are performing feats of labour.

What you will build is a large-scale greenhouse farm, and yet what surpasses it by far is the prestige of our dignified state, a beautiful life of our beloved people and a lofty ideal we are going to achieve.

I pay high tribute to the days of creation, which you will glorify with vibrant youth and enthusiasm, and the traces, which you will leave with your strenuous efforts reflective of your ennobling spirit and vigorous steps.

Along with our ever-prospering times, the happy future of our parents and siblings will always encourage you.

Let us all advance forward,

For the high prestige of our army and young people,

For the transformation of this region to be envied by the world,

For the eternal prosperity of our motherland!

When Kim Jong Un finished his rallying speech, all the builders raised the stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” with the single-minded pledge of loyalty looking up with soaring emotion to the great artist of creation and construction, who find all honours and prides of the revolutionary Party in the people’s happiness and is bringing earlier the comprehensive rejuvenation and realistic changes with his ardent spirit of serving the people and great revolutionary will.

Kim Jong Un dug the first spadeful of earth in celebration of the ceremony and pressed the button for blasting.

There was a loud sound of detonation signalling the brilliant future, and fireworks were set off.

The groundbreaking venue was filled with the ardent reverence for the great Party Central Committee that is turning the island afflicted by disasters through generations into an urbanized and modern ideal village of civilization and efflorescence.

Meeting and encouraging the commanding officers of the large combined units of the services of the KPA and the commanding officers of the youth shock brigade, Kim Jong Un gave a series of important instructions related to the project.

Repeatedly appraising that the KPA has always supported the plans and intentions of the Party Central Committee without an inch of deflection and with unconditional practice, he advanced the militant task for the army to push forward dynamically, in parallel with the greenhouse farm construction, with the dike project qualitatively to provide an eternal security guarantee in the island area on the lower reaches of the Amnok River and reliably defend the happy life of the people from any natural disaster.

All the builders were full of burning enthusiasm for invariably displaying the fame as staunch defenders and thoroughgoing executors of the Party’s policy by dedicating themselves to the revolutionary work for promoting the people’s wellbeing, cherishing in their pulsating hearts the deep trust and expectation of Kim Jong Un, who put them forward in the vanguard of the struggle to carry out the historic cause unprecedented in the building of the state, and of the Party Central Committee.

Construction of the extra-large greenhouse farm to be launched in the northwestern border area of the country is a great demonstration of the matchless guidance and inexhaustible fighting efficiency of the great WPK, which has put forward the regional development policy in the new era as an oath and pledge it solemnly made for history and the people and is stepping up the huge tasks of the epochal transformation in a most scientific, revolutionary and prudent way. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.11.)

For Eternal Peace and Prosperity of the Country 2025.2.7.

 http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/21817

On its sacred journey of fulfilling the noble duty of national defense and realizing the lofty ideal of overall national development, the Korean People’s Army (KPA) is marking its 77th founding anniversary fully demonstrating with its prestige of as a powerful army fully demonstrated.

On February 8, 1948, the first military ranks of our regular revolutionary armed forces raised stormy cheers of “hurrah” looking up to the great President Kim Il Sung. Since that historic day, the KPA has developed into an invincible elite revolutionary army which inherited the traditions of the anti-Japanese guerrillas under the great guidance of the peerless great men.

During the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) when the destiny of the country was at stake due to the armed invasion of the U.S., the heroic KPA remained true to the Juche-based military idea and line, and operational plan of President Kim Il Sung. By displaying boundless loyalty, bravery and patriotism, it dealt a decisive blow to the enemy’s enemy’s numerical and technological advantage with its politico-ideological, strategic and tactical edge. Thus, it created an unprecedented legend of war victory and displayed to the whole world the might of heroic KPA.

Chairman Kim Jong Il put forth the idea of modelling the entire army on Kimilsungism as the general objective of army-building and gave guidance to ensure that the People’s People’s Army assumes its natural appearance flawlessly as the army of the leader and the Party in name and reality. He also raised the KPA into a-match-for-a hundred revolutionary army strong in ideology and faith, fully embodying the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and ardent patriotism.

As the KPA upholds in high esteem respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, it demonstrates to the full its dignity and might of an invincible strong army, displaying limitless absolute power and huge rapid development.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un advanced the idea of further strengthening the KPA as an army politico-ideologically strong and morally sound advancing under the uplifted banner of modeling the whole army on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. He developed the KPA into an invincible revolutionary army fully embodyingarmed with our Party’s Juche-oriented military idea and tactics.

Under his outstanding leadership, the KPA is displaying its might as an invincible army perfectly equipped with strong material measures capable of defeating all kinds of enemies and as a powerful elite army of revolution with formidable strikinge power and overwhelming military strength capability that can surely overpower all sorts of tyranny war racket of the imperialists.

As it has done so for the past 77 years, the heroic KPA will reliably safeguard the dignity and greatness of our powerful state for our country’s eternal peace and prosperity, bearing in mind the immutable fact that the Party’s ideas and decisions are science and truth.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Ministry of National Defence on Day of KPA Founding

Pyongyang, February 9 (KCNA) -- The heroic Korean People's Army, which has remained faithful to its sacred mission of firmly defending the sovereignty and security of the state and safeguarding the well-being and happiness of the beloved people with the image of the dignified Workers' Party of Korea embroidered on the glorious colours, is now greeting its proud 77th founding anniversary along with its undying honor, while recording another year of victory and miracles in the history of army building.

The KPA, the ever-victorious elite ranks, is the most powerful strength and great pride of our Party and people as it has kept deep in mind the creed and faith "for our great Party, for our great state and for our great people" and is winning victory after victory for the country and revolution with the peculiar outlook on the revolution, transparent patriotic spirit, matchless heroism and devoted service of pursuing the greatest honour and glory only on the road of remaining faithful to the creed and faith.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, paid a congratulatory visit to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK on Feb. 8, the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army to encourage the service personnel.

The participants were filled with great emotion and joy of meeting the great illustrious commander, who has trained the KPA into a large contingent of brave service personnel invariably shining in the vanguard of the era and led them to the vigorous victory and glory with his firmest trust and love and, at the highest command organ of the armed forces of the DPRK on the significant day of army building.

Colours of victory symbolic of honour of all services and corps, combined units and units at all levels of the KPA were lined up for the glorious moment.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the Ministry of National Defence, the service personnel of the KPA broke into stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" looking up to the invincible and iron-willed commander who ushered in a heyday of bolstering up the revolutionary armed forces with his outstanding idea of army building and matchless commanding art and added luster to the noble name of the KPA with victory and glory.

A solemn ceremony of greeting the head of state took place.

After receiving a salute from the head of the guard of honour of the KPA, Kim Jong Un reviewed the guard of honour and the glorious colours of the three services.

He was courteously greeted by No Kwang Chol, Jong Kyong Thaek, Ri Yong Gil and other leading commanding officers of the ministry and military and political cadres of the KPA large combined units.

There took place a march-past of the guard of honour of the KPA.

Kim Jong Un met military and political commanding officers at all levels of the Ministry of National Defence and the KPA and made a meaningful speech in commemoration of the Day of Army Founding.

Paying deep respects to the heroic mettle and noble revolutionary spirit of the KPA which is proudly recording the history of the fierce struggle in every eye-opening event and miracle in all parts of the country, flying the ever-victorious and glorious colours, he extended warm congratulations and militant greetings to the generals, officers and soldiers of the KPA who are devoting all their precious blood and sweat to carrying out the huge important tasks of the revolution.

He highly appreciated the great reputation and glory of the KPA which has won legendary victories and performed miracles with its unique spirit and noble soul remaining always true to the sacred call the army of the Party and the leader, and praised the distinguished services and feats of the service personnel of the KPA who are striving to firmly defend the happiness and peace of the country and build a more powerful future.

Summarizing the features of the world-wide changes in political, military and geopolitical structure including the surrounding environment of the state, he stressed the need to more highly develop the war response posture of the DPRK's armed forces to proactively cope with any variable security situation.

He stressed that the U.S. nuclear strategic means constantly deployed on the Korean peninsula, the U.S.-led bilateral and multiple nuclear war simulation exercises staged on the level of actual war, the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military alliance system established under the U.S. regional military bloc scenario and the formation of NATO of Asian version as its axis are inviting military imbalance on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia, causing a basic factor in building a new conflicting structure and raising a grave challenge to the security environment of our state.

Noting that it is the correct answer to tell those who worship the predominance of power with the language they can understand only, he clarified that the DPRK does not want unnecessary tension of the regional situation but will take sustained countermeasures to ensure the regional military balance out of the aspiration for preventing the outbreak of a new war and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula.

The Middle East crisis including the Gaza Strip and Syria and the issue of Ukraine, which have been the scenes of global geopolitical conflicts and confrontation last year, are expected to flow as the main axis of the tense international situation trend this year, too, he said, adding that the geopolitical crises brought about by the U.S. in different parts of the world are further increasing the danger of the outbreak of a new world war and having a serious influence on not only international peace and security but also all other spheres of human activities.

Noting that the U.S. is standing in the center behind the scene of the war machine which is stirring up the tragic situation of Ukraine that has lasted for three years as the former is attaching a fixed name as the wrecker of global peace and stability, hallucinated by the wild ambition for establishing unipolar hegemony, he expressed serious concern over the reckless behaviors of the U.S. and Western group intentionally fostering the prolonged war from the unrealizable dream to deal strategic setbacks to Russia.

It is the invariable stand of the DPRK government to oppose and reject any act of denying the international justice and disturbing global peace and security, he said, adding that the army and people of the DPRK will invariably support and encourage the just cause of the Russian army and people to defend their sovereignty, security and territorial integrity in keeping with the spirit of the treaty on the comprehensive strategic partnership between the DPRK and Russia.

Noting that the black shadows of the U.S. which is standing unfailingly behind the world's big and small disputes and tragedies of bloodshed at present prove that the line of our Party and government aspiring after the building of an unlimited defence capability is most just, he said that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK should always and practically be faithful to their supreme duty to defend the Constitution of the DPRK and the state and people.

Referring to a series of new plans for rapidly bolstering all deterrences including nuclear forces, he clarified once again the unshakable policy of more highly developing the nuclear forces.

Pointing out that the future of the KPA, the pride of our great people and symbol of the honor and strength of our state, importantly just depends mainly on the commanding officers, he stressed that it is important for the KPA to consistently hold fast to and more thoroughly apply the issue of making the army politically, ideologically and morally stronger, before anything else, and in this regard it is particularly important to train our service personnel into the fighters strong in ideology and faith full of the correct understanding of the enemy and the steadfast outlook on the enemy.

He set forth important tasks which serve as the guidelines for further strengthening the KPA into the matchless revolutionary army, including the issue of making this year a year of training by further kindling the flames of the training revolution on the principle of raising the combat capability of the KPA to the highest level, the issue of making war preparations more thoroughly as required by modern warfare and the issue of waging a fierce struggle to establish the steel-like order and sound military discipline.

Expressing belief that the glorious history of struggle and feats of the heroic KPA boundlessly loyal to the Party, the country and the people would record the more exciting and noble events in the course of the growth and development of our eternal and powerful state, he ardently called for continuing to fight courageously for the dignity and great might of the DPRK and for the peace and happiness of our beloved people.

The precious instructions of the great brilliant commander that clarified the grand policy for army building that led the brilliant history of the revolutionary armed forces to eternal victory and glory made the military and political commanding officers run high with boundless emotion.

When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, the participants raised the enthusiastic cheers of "Hurrah!"

All the commanding officers were filled with the firm faith and militant enthusiasm to remain faithful to the mission and duty as the army of the Party, the army of the leader and the genuine army of the people to the last for the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, for the prosperity of our great state and for the happiness and peace of our great people.

Kim Jong Un had a photo session with the commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence, soldiers of sub-units under it and military and political commanding officers of units of the services and large combined units at all levels of the KPA and combined units and units belonging to them in commemoration of his visit to the ministry.

When he appeared at the venue of the photo session, all the participants paid the highest glory and tribute to the great brilliant commander who is training the KPA into the most powerful entity in the world overwhelmingly winning any formidable enemy ideologically and mentally, militarily and technically and the patriotic vanguard advancing bravely, taking any missions for the prosperity and development of the country, through his ceaseless undying guidance at the army.

He said that although the days of army founding and war victory to be specially recorded in the history of the struggle of the revolutionary armed forces are becoming far away with the passage of time, we will always remember the spirit and breath of the revolutionary forerunners, who provided the origin of the tradition of eternal victory of heroic Korea, an independent power, and laid the cornerstone of building a rich country with strong army through ever-victorious tradition.

He said that we should proudly write an honorable new history of our generation by performing miraculous feats and creating wonderful myths beyond precedent and limit, shouldering upon ourselves the honour of our times and our army.

He expressed expectation and belief that the commanding officers of the KPA would always demonstrate its undying fame in the sacred war for defending the Party and the revolution and safeguarding the territory and people with their unique pride, strong self-respect and indomitable fighting spirit of guaranteeing the most just cause in the world with arms, being deeply aware of their important task to glorify the great pioneering with greater succession.

Resounded far and wide in the sky of February were the stormy shouts "Kim Jong Un" and "Death-defying defence" raised by all the participants in reflection of their firm pledge to vigorously glorify with distinguished services of our generation the heroic history and tradition of the KPA which has performed brilliant feats in the history of the country following the great Party.

Kim Jong Un's visit to the Ministry of National Defence will be recorded long in history as a sacred one which further highlighted the noble mission of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK to firmly guarantee the sure victory of the DPRK with arms and vigorously propel the grand all-people advance for overall national prosperity with the ardent pioneering spirit and indomitable mettle. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.09.)

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The Korean People’s Army -great guardian of independence , peace and socialism !-special article by Dr Dermot Hudson

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 

From Voice of Korea-Invincible Revolutionary Army

 From Voice of Korea.

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Invincible Revolutionary Army

An invincible army--this is a precious title of the revolutionary armed forces that have been recorded in the history of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for a long time since their foundation.

The great leader Kim Il Sung, the founder of the Korean People's Army, was an iron-willed brilliant commander who defeated the US and Japanese imperialists in one generation and the great leader Kim Jong Il was an unrivalled brilliant commander who won consecutive victories in the political and military confrontation with the US imperialists with his original Songun (military-first) politics.

Today the KPA is ushering in the golden age of its development thanks to the outstanding military idea and unusual leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK.
The revolutionary armed forces of Korea have a formidable offensive power and overwhelming military muscle capable of containing and controlling all the war moves of the imperialists, and reliably defend the sovereignty and right to existence of the state and people.
Researcher O Song Yon at the Academy of Social Sciences says:
"The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un paid a congratulatory visit to the Ministry of National Defense on February 8, 2024 on the occasion of the Day of the Army Founding. He said that the absolute might, prestige and dignity our state has won are based on the valuable feats and victories our People's Army has achieved at the cost of blood, sweat and sacrifice and that our Party's objective in aspiring to a more powerful and prosperous state is to win back and squarely exercise all its rights to independence, and the foremost task here is to obtain the eternal security of the state for sure. To this end, we must possess absolute might which defies any provocation, might strong enough to control the enemy, he added."
The Korean People's Army will be ever-victorious thanks to Kim Jong Un who is carrying forward the cause of the great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

From Voice of Korea-To See His Soldiers

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  The great leader Kim Jong Il performed the immortal exploits for the strengthening and development of the Korean People's Army.

  In the mid-1990s, he made an uninterrupted journey based on Songun (military-first) politics in order to resolutely frustrate the tenacious isolation and suffocation moves of the enemy and strengthen the KPA.

  In November 1996 he got on a small speedboat to the Cho Islet in the West Sea of Korea.

  The weather was very bad from the early morning.

  So officials earnestly requested him to visit the islet on a fine day later for his field guidance.

  Kim Jong Il, however, set out on the road of his field guidance, saying that no fierce storm could block his way to the soldiers and the soldiers were waiting for him.

  That day, cameramen accompanied him but failed to take a picture of him on the sea route to the islet.

  Huge waves tossed up much spray before striking the speedboat hard. The small speedboat pitched and rolled and fluctuated up and down in the raging waves many a time.

  It was difficult for them to keep balance aboard the boat and furthermore, cameras were damaged. After all, they could not take a picture of the voyage to the Cho Islet. It proves how arduous and dangerous the road covered by him was.

  The historic voyage made by Kim Jong Il on the day was left on the sea of Korea.

  The service personnel of the Korean People's Army could stoutly grow into invincible warriors thanks to the uninterrupted journey of Songun he made for them.

 

  The long journey of Songun made by Kim Jong Il will be remembered forever along with the history of victory of the KPA.