The 70-odd year-long path covered by the Korean People's Army overcoming the harsh ordeals of revolution is a proud history in which it adorned the annals of the arduous and complicated Korean revolution with the heroic struggle and feats and has been developed and strengthened into the army of the party and the leader.

It is also a worthwhile history in which it displayed far and wide the honor of victors in the struggle to defend socialism by smashing in every step the ferocious moves of the US and other imperialists to stifle the DPRK.

The KPA is the revolutionary armed forces of Juche which great President Kim Il Sung, brilliant commander sent by heaven, founded in the early days of the anti-Japanese revolution and strengthened into a revolutionary army of the independent era through the historical practice of the Korean revolution.

The President, who embarked on the road of revolution in the darkest period of the Japanese imperialist rule, set forward the idea and line of giving precedence to arms and military affairs for the first time in history, and on that basis he founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the first-ever revolutionary armed forces of the Korean people on April 25, 1932.

Thanks to the illustrious leadership of the great President who was possessed of gifted military wisdom and protean tactics, the KPA waged the 15 year-long anti-Japanese armed struggle with firm confidence of victory and indomitable revolutionary spirit in the worst hardships beyond human imagination, defeated Japanese imperialism and at last brilliantly achieved the historical cause of the national liberation.

  After the country’s liberation the President, by clairvoyantly seeing through the crisis of national division caused by the US occupation of south Korea and the prospect of the building of a new society, developed the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into the KPA without delay.

 The KPA which had grown to a regular revolutionary armed force under the prominent guidance of the President meted out the disgraceful defeat to the US aggressors who boasted of being “the strongest in the world” by displaying mass heroism and matchless sacrificing spirit in the last Korean War broken out by the US imperialists in the 1950s, and achieved the historical victory.

After the war the KPA reliably safeguarded the security of the fatherland and people crushing the incessant US moves of aggression and a new war, and has militarily guaranteed the socialist revolution and construction of the Korean people amid the acute and complicated class struggle.

Under the commandership of Marshal Kim Jong Il, the peerless brilliant commander of Songun, the KPA has been adamantly succeeding the genuine history of the Juche-oriented cause of army building and could be exalted on a new high stage of its development.

It is entirely thanks to the great Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il that the KPA has been developed into invincible revolutionary armed forces which have the appearance of the army of the leader and the supreme commander on the highest level, and discharged its mission and role as the core unit of revolution in the do-or-die struggle to defend the fatherland and in the construction of a thriving socialist country.

For leader Kim Jong Il applies the outstanding Songun politics that puts up the KPA as the driving force of the revolution, the fellow countrymen could speed up the advance of independent reunification by the concerted efforts of the nation under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration, the milestone for the reunification in the 21^st century, though the obstruction moves of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad are vicious.

It is indeed a great honor and pride for all the Koreans to have the KPA which displays its might to the full as the strong army  and guarantees the security of the nation  and the country’s reunification with arms under the commandership of Kim Jong Il.

Therefore, the patriotic people in south Korea and the progressive humankind of the world extol Marshal Kim Jong Il as the iron-willed brilliant commander and illustrious general born of heaven who brought up the KPA to an invincible revolutionary army with the great Songun leadership, and highly praise the KPA which has smashed in every step the vicious moves of the US-led imperialists to strangle the DPRK and displays to the full the honor of victors in the struggle to defend socialism and in the socialist construction.

The KPA which upholds the superior Songun leadership and Songun politics of great Songun commander Kim Jong Il will always win victory.