BRILLIANT SONGUN COMMANDER OF BAEKDU
Brilliant Songun Commander of Baekdu
Leader Kim Jong Il’s assumption of supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army on December 24, 1991, 19 years ago from now, was a historical landmark event with weighty importance in strengthening the KPA, carrying out the Korean revolution and the global cause of independence. Since holding Kim Jong Il, possessed of a gifted wisdom and qualifications, trait and iron-strong pluck as befitting a brilliant commander, as the supreme commander of the KPA there was unfolded a bright prospect for the Korean revolution which had started and has been advanced by dint of arms, and Korea could display its dignity as an invincible country emerging ever-victorious on the strength of Songun. Kim Jong Il strengthened the independent defence capabilities of the DPRK with the KPA as the core in every way, exalting the dignity and status of the country and nation to the highest level. He left his first footprint of revolutionary leadership by inspecting a KPA unit half a century ago and brilliantly carried forward President Kim Il Sung’s idea of giving precedence to arms and military affairs, thus opening up a new era of the Songun politics. Today the KPA has grown to be an army strongest in ideology and faith regarding the devotedly defending the leader as its foremost lifeblood and an invincible revolutionary armed forces equipped with both powerful offensive and defensive means, and emerges ever victorious in the fierce showdown with the imperialists. It is entirely a precious fruition achieved by holding leader Kim Jong Il, peerless Songun statesman and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, as its supreme commander. Leader Kim Jong Il realized single-minded unity of army and people to ensure that Korea shines forever as an invincible powerful country. Thanks to the leader who devotes his all to the soldiers and people, the grand unity of army and people, which can never be seen anywhere in the world, has been realized and Korea displays the dignity as a powerful country strong in politics and ideology and a country of single-minded unity. By dint of the Songun politics pursued by the leader a grand program for independent reunification common to the nation was provided and all the fellow countrymen could more dynamically wage the reunification movement frustrating the moves of the anti-reunification forces for national division and confrontation under the banner of “By Our Nation Itself”, the country’s international prestige was remarkably risen in the world and the international solidarity for the Korean reunification was unprecedentedly strengthened. The exploits of leader Kim Jong Il, who has developed the KPA into the strongest army in the world and Korea into a powerful socialist country of Juche and wisely leads the global cause of independence to a brilliant victory with the great Songun politics, will shine forever century after century. |