Pyongyang,
July 30 (KCNA) -- The first workshop of the commanders and political officers
of the Korean People's Army (KPA) was held in Pyongyang, the capital of
the revolution, from July 24 to 27
under the guidance of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president
of the State Affairs of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK).
The
Central Committee of the WPK and the Central Military Commission of the WPK organized
a great meeting of military and political cadres of the whole army to
further enhance the military
and political strength and revolutionary fighting spirit of the KPA, the
backbone of the national defence capacity and the revolutionary armed forces of
our Party, and to awaken the military
and political cadres again
to the important
military strategic and tactical
idea of the Party Central Committee and also to the orientations and policies
for the army-building as required by the changed situation.
The
workshop, the first of its kind in the history of army-building, was focused on
developing units, combined units and large combined units at al levels of the KPA into the politically and
ideologically steel-strong army and invincible militant ranks faithfully upholding the
leadership of the WPK, awakening and encouraging military and
political cadres to fulfill their responsibilities and
roles as the
hard core in carrying
out these honorable tasks, and
comprehensively rearming them.
Attending
the workshop were military
commanders and political commissars of al the services,
corps, divisions, brigades,
regiments and members of the
executive committee of the KPA Committee of the WPK and officials of the KPA
General Political Bureau, the KPA General Staff and the Ministry of National
Defence of the DPRK.
Respected
Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Opening Address for Workshop and Guides First-day
Sitting
The first
workshop of commanders
and political officers of the
Korean People's Army, which
will mark another remarkable milestone
in strengthening and developing the Juche-based revolutionary armed
forces, began on July 24.
The respected
Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted by the KPA commanding officers as he arrived at the April 25 House of Culture, the venue of the workshop, to guide it. A
military ceremony of respectfully receiving the Supreme Commander of the armed
forces of the DPRK was held at the April 25 House of Culture.
Kim
Jong Un received a salute from the chief of the honor guard of the KPA, amid
the solemn playing of the national anthem of the DPRK.
The respected General Secretary
reviewed the honor guard and commanding
officers of the services and corps-level units and glorious colors of
the large combined units and met with commanding officers of the KPA.
The military and political cadres of
units, combined units and large combined
units warmly welcomed the General
Secretary of the
WPK and Supreme Commander of the armed forces of the DPRK who firmly
defends the security of our state
and people with
his outstanding and seasoned leadership
and dynamically leads them along the path of victory and glory, extending the
highest respect with loyalty.
As
the respected General Secretary appeared at the platform of the venue of the
workshop with Pak Jong Chon, chief of the KPA General Staff, Kwon Yong Jin,
director of the KPA General Political Bureau, Ri Yong Gil, minister of National
Defence, and commanders of the KPA large combined units, the stormy cheers of
"hurrah!" raised by all the participants burst forth.
Looking
up to Kim Jong Un who
proposed the grand workshop unprecedented
in the history of army-building and came out to the venue of the workshop to
guide it personally, the military and political cadres of the whole army were
filled with great joy and excitement of seeing the Supreme Commander whom they
yearned and admired awake or asleep at the posts on the defence line of the
country.
The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an opening address.
The
General Secretary clarified the purpose of holding a grand meeting of military
and political cadres of units,
combined units and large combined
units of the whole army as the first
meeting of the
KPA after the 8th Congress of the
Party, saying that the first
workshop of commanders and political officers
of the KPA is held
ahead of meaningful V-Day at a
time when all the people across the country are waging an indefatigable
struggle for a new victory of the revolution.
He
stressed that the Party Central Committee gives special importance to strengthening
all the services, corps, divisions,
brigades and regiments of the KPA
in overcoming severe difficulties lying ahead of our revolution and winning a
new victory. He extended warm militant greetings to servicemen of the whole
army, availing himself of the meaningful opportunity. He added that he has
never forgotten the
military and political cadres of
units at all levels making devotion on the outpost lines for increasing the military capabilities and at sites of the
grand campaigns for prosperity of the country and happiness of the people.
All
the threats will be in vain
and our revolutionary
advance will be victorious if
the divisions, brigades and regiments of the whole
army are readied as one, he said, stressing that the commanders of the
services, the commanders of corps, divisions,
brigades and regiments
and other commanding officers and
political commissars of the KPA
should make redoubled efforts
than ever before. He analyzed in detail the
operation commanding ability,
the level of managing units and political and practical qualifications of military and
political cadres.
He
said that the military and political cadres of the KPA should seriously review their
overall work in the units and
find ways to
overcome shortcomings and deviations while exchanging good experiences,
well aware of the intention of
the Party Central
Committee and the Central
Military Commission of the WPK that organized the workshop in a large
scale.
He stressed
the need for the
commanding officers and political commissars at all levels to
regard the workshop as
the best precious occasion
for acquiring a
deeper understanding of the
importance of strengthening services,
corps, divisions, brigades and
regiments and policy orientation
and policies of the Party for army-building, for finding good methods
for realizing them and for undergoing revolutionary self-cultivation and
training and to make positive efforts to learn more and more.
Expressing
belief that the workshop would serve as an important starting point for revolutionizing
cadres i.e. for preparing all the military and political cadres of the whole
army to be the genuine
commanding officers of the revolutionary armed
forces of the Party
and as an occasion of
making radical advance in
strengthening in every
way the operation and
combat abilities and political and military might of the
units, he declared the
first workshop of commanders and political officers of the KPA open.
A
report was made at the workshop.
KPA
Vice Marshal Kwon Yong Jin, member of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee of the WPK, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and
director of the KPA General Political Bureau, made a report.
The respected
General Secretary organized the grand workshop
of the commanders and political
commissars of services, corps, divisions, brigades and regiments of the whole
army on the occasion of the anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland
Liberation War in the important and crucial period of our revolution,
the reporter said. He
added that herein lies
his noble intention to glorify generation after generation the immortal feats of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim
Jong Il in leading the army and prepare
commanding officers, the hard-core
members of the
KPA, to be genuine military and political cadres of
the Party's army possessed of high political consciousness, revolutionary style
of work and noble moral traits.
Thanks
to the
feats the President and the
Chairman, the founder and builder
of the revolutionary army of
the Party, performed
in leading the army, our army
could make proud development as the revolutionary army of the Party, he said,
noting that the Party and the country highly praise the guard units
and military and
political commanding officers of
the former generations that made
brilliant military achievements and performed shining feats by faithfully
upholding the leadership of
the President and
the Chairman.
Stressing that
the immortal feats
of the President and the Chairman
in leading the army
are shining more
brightly under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, another ever-victorious
iron-willed brilliant commander and great leader of our Party, state and
people, he noted that the KPA has been modernized at a remarkably high speed
and has fully demonstrated a-match-for-a-hundred militant spirit and might at outpost lines of
national defense and socialist
construction in recent years under the outstanding leadership of Kim Jong Un.
Analyzed
in detail in the report were major shortcomings in the work of units at all
levels and military and political cadres in the implementation of the military
lines and policies of the Party and the causes behind them.
The reporter called on all
the participants to
strengthen the fighting efficiency
of the units at al levels in every way,
true to the decision made at the Eighth Congress of the Party and the policy
tasks set forth at the major Party
meetings, and to step up political, ideological, military and practical preparations for
realizing them through the workshop.
Speeches
were made there.
Realizing
once again their heavy missions and
responsibilities as the military and political cadres of the revolutionary
army of the Party, the participants attentively listened to the speeches about experiences and lessons
gained in strengthening the units.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes
Important Conclusion at Second-Day
Sitting of Workshop Speeches continued
at the second-day sitting of the workshop following the first-day sitting.
The
second-day sitting was held amid the high ideological readiness and enthusiasm of
the military and political
cadres to review
their work comprehensively before
the Party Central Committee, arm themselves more thoroughly with the Party's
military lines and policies and fulfill their heavy responsibilities and
duties.
Commanders and
political commissars of units
and combined units
who took the floor referred to the successes and experiences in
preparing their respective units to be the first death-defying corps for
defending the Party Central Committee that inherited the noble spirit of the
heroic soldiers in the period of the Fatherland Liberation War, in making
soldiers temper their iron fists as
a-match-for-a-hundred soldiers, in getting themselves always fully prepared for decisive battles, in
improving living conditions for soldiers and in waging grand construction
campaigns.
Speeches
roundly analyzed and criticized the shortcomings that were seen in
military and political
work such as combat and
political training, unit command
and management and education of soldiers.
The
military and political cadres renewed their firm pledge to be genuine loyalists
making strenuous efforts to fulfill the Party's orders and instructions and
unconditionally upholding the leadership of the Party Central Committee by
inheriting the tradition of loyalty and the indomitable fighting spirit left by
the commanders of the war victor generation in the proud history of battles of
their units.
There
was an evaluation of exemplary units in increasing combat power, establishing
military discipline and improving
the living conditions for soldiers true to the Party's military
policy.
All
the military and political cadres who
participated in the workshop greeted
the most
valuable and significant moment which they
had been eagerly waiting for with
ardent desire.
As the
respected General Secretary Kim Jong
Un made his appearance at the
speaker's table, the entire venue stirred with excited participants who were to
receive the precious
army-building theory and great programme from the great brilliant
commander.
He
made a vital concluding speech regarding the important revolutionary struggle
tasks of the KPA at present in implementing the line and policy of the Party on
army-building, and on the issues presented at the workshop.
In
his concluding speech, he
referred to the purpose
of organizing the grand workshop
for leading commanding officers of the
whole army, the first of its kind in the history of
army-building.
The first workshop of commanders
and political officers of the
KPA was organized to decisively
raise the roles of commanders and political officers of units at all levels in
accurately and thoroughly implementing the line and task of developing the
revolutionary armed forces into a powerful elite army set forth at the historic
8th Party Congress, he said.
He
said that commanders and political commissars of units and combined units are
the core military and political cadres who form the backbone of our revolutionary
armed forces, and are field commanders and political officers who lead their
units in battles according to the operational plan of the Supreme Headquarters.
He added that preparing commanders and political officers well and
rearming them steadily
is a strategic policy consistently maintained by our Party in
modernizing the army.
Noting
that the workshop was organized on the occasion of the V-Day, he said that the
tradition of the great victory in the war is what should be kept most dear and
what should be brought into reality today, now that we face heaps of
unprecedented challenges and difficulties and each one has to be surmounted by
dint of strong will and firm decision.
He
stated that succession of the revolution does not mean merely handing it down to
posterity but a succession of the fighting spirit and the indomitable spirit
full of vigor. And the great fighting spirit of the war victor generation is
something that should be carried forward steadily with great efforts and that should
never be left to get blurred or tarnished despite the passage of time, he
stressed.
In
the concluding speech, he laid down the general task for strengthening units,
combined units and large combined units.
He formulated
it as the general task
facing the units
of the KPA at
al levels to turn them into invincible
militant ranks that are boundlessly loyal to the cause of the WPK. He said that
this meant turning them into a politico-ideological group which is absolutely
loyal to and obeys the WPK's idea and leadership, and conducting all the
operations and battles, unit management and military service of officers and
servicemen according to the policy, way and intention of the Party.
He
stressed that the KPA is the armed forces of the Party and therefore all the
military and political activities should reflect the Party's will, strength and
voice and should be aimed at realizing the Party's intention.
He
clarified the principled issues and tasks to be maintained in thoroughly establishing
the Party's unified command system in the KPA.
He gave
important instructions to
make every occasion and
process in Party political work
and military work a course of defending the Party's idea and authority and
tightening the country's security at the units at all levels, and to completely
establish the revolutionary military discipline of promptly receiving the
orders and instructions of the
Party Central Committee and devotedly carrying them out.
He
stressed that commanders and political officers should focus all efforts on
completing preparations for actively
and offensively coping
with any military provocation of enemies, and said this is the highest
order given to the KPA by the
Party and the revolution,
nobody can take their place
in implementing it and it is an
urgent task which the
commanding officers should be responsible for with their lives.
Saying
that at present the hostile forces systematically keep bolstering up their
capabilities for making a preemptive attack on the DPRK and increase armaments
while intensifying all sorts of frantic and persistent war drills for aggression, he
noted such situation has hardened the
determination and fighting will
of the
KPA to eradicate
the root cause
of the evil cycle
of escalating tensions.
He
called for al the military and political cadres to put the greatest efforts into
bolstering up the combat efficiency of their units,
always mindful that the first criterion
for assessing their loyalty to the Party and revolution and their practical
ability and performance lies in how hard they try to
perfect the preparations for correctly
performing their wartime
operation and combat missions.
In
the concluding speech, he set forth the detailed tasks for the units at all
levels to make their training more intensive by holding fast to the five-point
policy for a revolution in the training
and the specific methods for them to provide soldiers with better living
conditions.
Referring
to the need to further intensify the ideological education within the army,
he said it is important to
make sure that soldiers involved in socialist construction take pride
and self-confidence in being the creators of the people's happiness, the
sentinels responsible for preserving the people's trust in the Party
and stones for building a fortress
of the single-minded unity.
He
underscored the need to conduct efficient education among soldiers to give full
play to the good traditional traits of the army-civilian unity so that they can
always respect and love the people like their parents and brothers and devote
their lives to protecting the people's lives and properties.
In
his concluding speech he
specially stressed the
need for the
military and political
cadres to enhance
their qualifications, abilities,
sense of responsibility and role.
He said that
the military commanding officers and
political commissars wanted by
the Party are the ones modeled on the WPK who carry forward the tradition of
boundless loyalty to the WPK, possessed of proficient work style and strenuous
militant disposition peculiar to the WPK.
Noting that loyalty
to the Party
Central Committee
constitutes the very lifeblood and
criterion for the commanding
officers of the KPA,
the revolutionary army of the Party, he called on the commanders and
political commissars of the units, combined units and large combined units to become the ones possessed
of firm faith and obligations who share the idea, will and destiny with their
Party forever and fight tooth and nail to defend the WPK
and the revolution
whatever the adversity. He
added that they should also
become the ones strong
in ideology and
the famous brave generals whose
mere names strike horror into the hearts of the enemy.
He stressed that military and
political cadres should
implement, without an inch of
deflection, all the military and political tasks set forth at the 8th Party Congress,
the plenary meetings
of the Party Central Committee and the
enlarged meetings of the
Party Central Military
Commission, and take the lead in
implementing them and powerfully mobilize the soldiers in doing so.
Saying
that the Party spirit and political consciousness are the fundamental yardstick for determining the
qualifications of the commanding personnel
of the KPA, he specifically pointed out the
issue of properly analyzing
and addressing all
the problems arising in military activities
and Party political work in line with the Party policies, the issue of
purposefully and consciously
endeavoring to have
a correct understanding
of the Party ideas and policies and keep pace with the
Party and the issue of honestly and voluntarily
participating in the Party organizational and ideological life.
He also
instructed them to possess
high-degree practical abilities
and strenuous militant stamina.
He said all
the commanding officers
should become enterprising
military and political cadres and commanding personnel with strong
grasping power, who strive to surpass the limits of their current levels and
qualifications and make remarkable
achievements with staunch
courage, strenuous efforts, inexhaustible passion and fighting
spirit after setting high goals.
He
called on the military and political cadres to cherish ambitious courage and
disposition to make their units
entrusted by the Party
famous units known by the entire
army and a-match-for-a-hundred militant ranks,
plan and conduct all undertakings in a
bold way and fully display the
self-sacrificing spirit and sense of devoted service.
He
also stressed that they should get firmly united in the same idea and purpose
and in the bonds of kinship to achieve close cooperation between military
commanders and political officers and
work hard to
prepare themselves as
paragons of competent
work style and noble morality befitting the commanding
officers of the revolutionary army.
After
stressing the importance
of the position
and duty of the
General Political Bureau,
General Staff and Ministry
of National Defence
in strengthening the entire
army, he clarified
the ways of unswervingly directing and subordinating the
Party political work and military work to the thorough implementation of the
militant tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee to the People's Army.
He underlined
the need for all the
units to bring about
the fundamental improvement
in the political and
ideological preparation and mental and moral traits of the commanding
personnel and soldiers and consolidate the fighting capacity of the units in
every way by waging more dynamically the Movement for Winning the Title of O
Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, the Three-revolution Red Flag Movement and other
mass movements.
He said
that the glorious victory
tradition of our
revolutionary armed forces could
be successfully carried forward only by
the resolute struggle and devotion of
the commanding personnel of younger generation remaining boundlessly
loyal to
the Party's leadership,
expressing the belief that all the
military and political cadres would redouble their efforts
to thoroughly establish the Party Central Committee's unified command
system throughout the army and
make radical progress in
rounding off the
war preparations and improving soldiers' living.
Finishing
the concluding speech, he ardently called on everyone to unite firmly around
the Central Committee of the
Workers' Party of Korea, our guide,
with one mind and wage
a dynamic struggle for the security and eternal prosperity of our glorious
country, for our great people,
for the strengthening and
developing of the People's Army and for a fresh victory in our revolution.
Courteously
receiving the precious great programme given by him, all the participants
kept in mind his every word with great admiration and excitement and had their hearts burning with
boundless gratitude to him
who clarified the ways for invincibility.
His
important concluding speech comprehensively dealing
with the outstanding military
idea and theory of building a strong army and full of his great trust in and
love for military and political cadres and soldiers serves as an
invaluable revolutionary document
indicating the guidelines
for further strengthening our People's Army into the invincible militant
ranks remaining boundlessly faithful to the cause of the WPK and into the
reliable defender of the country and the people.
Intensive
Training Course Given for Participants
At
the third-day sitting of the workshop there was a training course to make the
participants grasp the ways
of thoroughly implementing
the militant tasks set forth by the Party and further developing the
military and political work of the units in the same noble fighting spirit and
traits as was displayed by the commanding personnel of the guard units in the
wartime.
The training course dealt with the issue of following the war
victory generation's transparent spirit
of devotedly defending
the leader to make the
units a crystallization of devotedly defending the Party Central Committee, the issue of making full
preparations for fighting any type of war in the indomitable
spirit of defending the
country and the
heroic fighting spirit displayed
by the warriors of the People's Army during the Fatherland Liberation War and
the issue of making the revolutionary fighting and living traits created by the
war victory generation pervade all the units.
The
speakers underscored the need for the military and political cadres of the whole
army to firmly prepare themselves as those strong in ideology and faith, who
know nobody but the
Party Central Committee,
the first bodyguards devotedly
defending the Party Central Committee and resolute revolutionary fighters unconditionally implementing the orders and instructions of the
Party Central Committee like the
formerly commanding officers of the
anti-Japanese guerrillas who remained
boundlessly loyal to the leadership of President Kim Il Sung in
the wartime.
They
also underlined the
need for the military and
political cadres to steadily
improve their operation-commanding ability to carry out their units' operation and
militant tasks in any
circumstances, intensify the combat training of the
units,
round off the preparations for regular mobilization of the
personnel, weapons and combat and
technical hardware and
establish the strict military discipline.
The training
course referred to the
practical issues for applying
the indomitable
revolutionary spirit and
the stubborn fighting
traits created during the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War to the
present military and political work and mentioned the experience of exemplary
units.
Through
the training course, the
participants deeply grasped
the ways and experience for training their units to be
elite ones embodying the Party's military policy and having invincible fighting
capability. They were also given the ideological and
spiritual food for cultivating
themselves and improving their work
style and traits befitting the
commanding officers of the revolutionary army of the Party.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Closing
Address
Amid
the great zeal of military and political cadres for making all the units of the
entire army the invincible military ranks remaining boundlessly loyal and
obedient to the
leadership of the WPK,
the first workshop
of the commanders and
political officers of
the Korean People's
Army closed on uly 27 with the fourth-day sitting.
As the
respected General Secretary appeared in the venue
of the workshop, all the
participants raised stormy cheers of "hurrah!" as a token of their
absolute trust in him and great excitement.
The respected General Secretary made
a closing address of the
first workshop of the commanders and political officers of the KPA.
He said that the
recent workshop in
which al the military and political cadres had a proper and new
understanding of the plan and intention of the Party Central Committee and their position
and duty and found clear practical ways
to bringing about
a radical turn
in increasing the fighting efficiency of their
units served as a significant
meeting which provided
a new landmark in modernizing our army.
Saying
that our military and political cadres should redouble their efforts to lead
their units, as required by
the Party and
the revolution, he
called upon the participants
to strive to
complete their units' combat readiness, always bearing
in mind that officers
and soldiers of the
units place great expectations on the commanders and
political officers who would come back after participating in the workshop held
for the first
time in the army-building history.
He repeatedly stressed that the commanders and political commissars should further strengthen politically and militarily their services, corps, divisions, brigades
and regiments by thoroughly
carrying out the fighting tasks set forth at the workshop with
high goals and strong will to turn their units into a powerful fortress for
defending the revolution and the country.
He
called on the
commanders and political commissars to bring
about a radical improvement
in the idea,
spirit, working style, manner of
work, practical ability and moral
traits by enhancing their Party
spirit and improving themselves,
and to completely break with non-revolutionary and non-militant ideological
viewpoint and working style.
Saying
that no matter how severe the current trial is, there is no difficulty or fortress insurmountable or unconquerable, if commanders
and political officers live
and struggle with the
indomitable revolutionary fighting
spirit and will of the WPK, he expressed the
firm will of our
Party to vigorously carry forward
the glorious traditions
of victory by relying on the People's Army, the
invincible revolutionary army
of the Party, and the
military and political cadres of the whole army.
Expressing conviction that all military and political cadres would bring about signal
progress in increasing the fighting efficiency of their units by making devotion, bearing in mind the
Party's important ideas on army-building
and the tasks and ways emphasized at the workshop, he declared the closing of
the first workshop of the commanders and political officers of the KPA.
Looking
up with great emotion to Kim Jong Un, who gave them powerful and practical guidelines
for strengthening the
units and set forth clear orientation and
ways for them to prepare themselves as experienced military and political activists, while energetically guiding the
four-day-long workshop, the commanders and political commissars of the
units, combined units and large combined
units of the KPA took an oath
of loyalty to devotedly implement
the army-building plan of the
great brilliant commander and his strategic intention.
The first
workshop to be specially recorded in
the Juche-oriented army-building history marked a significant
occasion in signally increasing the fighting efficiency of the entire
army.
