National Meeting Marks 84th Anniversary of KPA

Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place here Sunday to mark the 84th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the revolutionary armed forces of the Workers' Party of Korea. KPA Vice Marshal Ri Myong Su, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, made a report in which he said: The Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA), the first revolutionary armed forces of Juche type, was founded on April 25, Juche 21 (1932). Therefore, the Korean people could have the genuine revolutionary army led by the outstanding leader for the first time in history and this marked the starting point of the glorious history of the Korean revolution which was pioneered and has advanced victoriously by dint of the arms. President Kim Il Sung consistently adhered to the idea of attaching importance to the arms and the principle of giving priority to the military affairs during the whole period of the revolutionary leadership, developed the Korean People's Army into the army of the party that thoroughly established the party's monolithic ideological system and into the powerful revolutionary armed forces all members of which were trained to be cadres and which were put on a modern basis, and turned the DPRK into an impregnable fortress and bulwark of independence by successfully putting all the people under arms and turning the whole country into a fortress. The cause of army-building of Juche started on Mt. Paektu was developed in depth onto a new stage thanks to the outstanding Songun revolutionary guidance of leader Kim Jong Il. The KPA has greeted the golden age of bolstering up the revolutionary armed forces as they are led by Marshal Kim Jong Un. The U.S. imperialists introduced strategic weapons into south Korea in a bid to stage frantic joint military drills against the DPRK and brought the clouds of a nuclear war to hang over Korea, escalating the situation to an extreme phase. The enemies have to clearly understand that the strike of the Korean People's Army which regards it as the greatest mission to devotedly safeguard the leader knows no mercy and this will be continued nonstop until the historic cause of national reunification is accomplished and the root cause of aggression and evil is totally eliminated. -0-