Pyongyang,
April 26 (KCNA) –
The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the military parade held in
celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's
Revolutionary Army (KPRA) on April 25, Juche 111 (2022).
The
following is the full text of the speech:
All
the brave officers and men of the armed forces of our Democratic People's
Republic of Korea,
Officers
and men of the units participating in the military parade,
Comrade
war veterans, exemplary soldiers and merited persons invited to this square of
celebration,
Esteemed
Pyongyang citizens, Dear comrades,
Today
we are holding a grand military parade in celebration of an anniversary,
significant and glorious for our great Party, state and people.
At
this moment overflowing with the glory of the long history of our army
building, we are all here filled with a great pride in having the armed forces
that firmly defend the Party, the revolution, the country and the people and
reliably guarantee peace and stability.
Seeing
the dependable elite units massed in this Kim Il Sung Square with their
victorious colours and feeling, through them, the level of the modern character
of the armed forces of our Republic, all the people across the country will
realize once again the profound and great significance the birth of their
country's first genuine armed forces 90 years ago had in the history of our
revolution and nation and will have in the future development of our state and
people.
The
founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army was an event of national
significance that declared a death-defying resistance against imperialism under
the unfurled banner of winning national liberation and independence by our own
efforts, as well as a historic event that ushered in a new era of the Juche
revolution that relies on powerful revolutionary armed forces.
The
major meaning of this event is not confined only to the fact that our people,
who were forced to live a pitiable life in the turmoil of history, could have
their own national army and the hope of their revival; it also lies in the fact
that the event declared at home and abroad the steadfast idea of
anti-imperialist revolution of the Korean revolutionaries to settle accounts to
the end and by force of arms with those who infringed upon the dignity and
sovereignty of our nation and their unyielding will to win the people's freedom
and liberation and the revolution's victory without fail by the internal
forces.
History
has clearly proved that this determination and will the Korean revolutionaries
opted for to carve out the destiny and future of their people was absolutely
correct.
The
revolutionary weapons the fine sons and daughters of our people held aloft in
the forests of Paektu were an expression of the soaring spirit of independence
of the Korean nation, their hope and the great banner of their unity, as well
as the force that loaded the mettle of self-dependence and Herculean strength
in the tear-stained fists of the Korean people.
Thanks
to these armed ranks, a far-reaching plan of the Korean revolution was matured,
the unyielding spirit and formidable strength with which to prevail over the
imperialist tyranny were nurtured, and the great traditions, basic and
everlasting in the development of our revolution, were created.
The
ideology, faith and traditions, which our revolutionary army cherished and
succeeded from the outset of its founding, constituted the basis of the
spiritual strength and ever-victorious guarantee that made it possible to
display an undying heroic and self-sacrificing spirit in defending the Party,
the revolution, the territory and the people in the fiercest-ever
anti-imperialist confrontation, in the first line of grim class struggle and in
the ever-changing circumstances of history, mindful of its intrinsic
revolutionary and class nature and mission. This army achieved the great cause
of the country's liberation and nation's revival through an unprecedented
bloody struggle, repulsed the armed aggression by the US- led allied
imperialist forces and defended with honour the sovereignty, dignity and safety
of the country with an unrivalled heroic spirit; it has recorded
ever-victorious feats while defending the ruling Party, the government, the
territory and the people throughout the historical course of the socialist
revolution and construction with an ennobling self- sacrificing spirit. Our
Party and people regard it as a source of their greatest honour and pride to
have such a brave, steely and loyal army.
All
our priceless gains, plus everything else on this land, are associated, first
of all, with the services of our revolutionary army. This we should keep in
mind.
Not
only as the main force for national defence but also as a powerful force for
national development, our revolutionary army, true to the Party's intentions,
has always made devoted efforts to carry out the ambitious revolutionary
undertakings aimed at attaining lofty ideals. By doing so, it has performed
such great exploits, which no others could do, in creating a new history of
socialist construction and enhancing the dignity and honour of our great state.
Regarding it as its lifeblood and top honour to be faithful to the Party, the government
and the people, our revolutionary army has kept the lineage of the Korean
revolution safe and sound and defended the ideology and cause of the Workers'
Party of Korea resolutely, and reliably guaranteed the existence and
development of our state and the welfare of our people. Thanks to these
exploits of lasting value it has performed over the past 90 years, the annals
of the Korean revolution spanning a century are resplendent with victory and
glory.
We
will remember for all ages that our great armed forces have always opened up
the way for advance in the vanguard at each of the difficult revolutionary
stages and that the glorious and worthwhile victories of our Republic have been
won at the cost of the priceless blood and sweat our revolutionary army shed
and the noble self-sacrifice it made.
The
glorious history of our armed forces is embodied in the proud and honourable
successors, that is, the officers and men from the elite units of the
Republic's armed forces, who will march in fine array across this square of
victors, and all other soldiers standing guard at the air, ground and naval
posts and performing feats of labour at sites of grand socialist construction
throughout the country.
Availing
myself of this meaningful opportunity, I, on behalf of our Party and
government, would like to pay noble tribute to the anti-Japanese revolutionary
forerunners and martyrs of the People's Army, who dedicated their precious
lives in the struggle for national sovereignty and independence and the people's
liberation, for the build-up of the revolutionary armed forces and for the
victorious advance of the socialist cause. I also offer hearty congratulations
to all the officers and men of the Korean People's Army and all other members
of the armed forces of our Republic, who are making a great journey of faithful
succession to their revolutionary forerunners.
In
addition, I would like to offer heartfelt thanks to all the families on this
land, which have had their dear husbands and children stand at the forefront of
national defence.
Comrades,
The
glorious 90-year journey our revolutionary armed forces have made safeguarding
the prosperity and development of the country by force of arms, should be
continued for another hundred, nay a thousand years.
In
the era we are living in now, we should continue to exalt the glory of the
powerful army and change to be more powerful at a fast speed incomparable with
the past 90 years.
In
the present world where different forces collide fiercely with one another, a
nation's dignity and sovereignty and reliable genuine peace are guaranteed by
powerful defence capability that can overpower any enemy.
We
should continuously grow stronger.
There
is no satisfaction or accomplishment in cultivating strength for defending ourselves,
and, whoever we confront, our military supremacy should be more secure.
The
revolution demands this, and the future of all the generations to come depends
upon this.
Our
general line of building the revolutionary armed forces is to make the People's
Army an ever-victorious army.
An
ever-victorious army–this must be the eternal name of our People's Army and
shine as a priceless honour belonging only to our revolutionary armed forces.
The
People's Army should hold fast to our Party's orientation and general line of
army building and dynamically open up a new phase of its development.
To
do so, it should define it as the core target to strengthen itself politically
and ideologically and make itself strong in military technology, and give a
stronger impetus to consolidating itself into an army, strong in ideology and
faith, which is absolutely loyal to the leadership of the Workers' Party of
Korea and boundlessly faithful to its revolutionary cause and into an elite
force possessed of courage, capability and self-confidence for responding to
any type of war and crisis without any hesitation.
Strengthening
it politically and ideologically is the main aspect and first strategic task of
our building of the army.
The
political and ideological preparedness of the army and the ideological and
spiritual preparedness of the masses of the soldiers, the motive force of the
armed forces, are basic in the effort to make our revolutionary army fulfil its
mission as the army of the Party, people and class and actively respond to any
type of war and crisis.
The
staunch revolutionary spirit and class awareness of the army we have to further
cultivate in the future will play a decisive role in building up the fighting
efficiency of our army and defence capabilities of the nation.
The
unique character of our revolution is that one generation of the revolution is
continually replaced by another and we have to face for a long period of time
the imperialists who grow ever more ferocious with each passing day. This
presents it as a crucial strategic task of army building and anti-imperialist
struggle to stoutly carry on the baton of the great revolutionary ideology and
spirit which originated in Paektu. When we carry out this task as the core in
army building, we will surely be able to maintain and consolidate the
qualitative supremacy of our revolutionary armed forces.
All
the Party organizations and political bodies of the People's Army should
continue to stoke up the flames of the ideological revolution and focus their
all-out effort on cultivating the revolutionary ideology and spiritual strength
of the soldier masses.
Regarding
it as our top-priority task to develop the People's Army into an army strong in
ideology and faith, we should prepare all the service personnel to be
ideological guardsmen who fight only in line with the revolutionary ideology
and will of the Party Central Committee, who cherish staunch class awareness
and indomitable fighting spirit as part of their mental qualities, and who
never allow a single misfire or an inch of deviation from the centre of the
target designated by the Party Central Committee.
We
should also strongly push ahead with building it up into an army strong in
military technology with a view to radically improving its fighting efficiency.
The
global trend of military development and rapidly- changing style of warfare at
present demand that we modernize our army at a faster rate in terms of military
technology.
Holding
aloft the slogan of modernizing the army, we should strive to the utmost to
develop our People's Army into a powerful army equipped with highly advanced
military technology.
By
pressing ahead with the modernization of the military talents training system,
we should bring up a larger number of officers who are fully capable of
commanding units of different arms and services at all levels. And we should
make all the units and sub-units of the army fully ready to carry out any
combat missions by modernizing their operation and combat training.
The
sectors of defence science and munitions industry should continue to develop
and deploy for actual combat cutting-edge military hardware of new generations
so as to ceaselessly increase the military power of the People's Army.
In
particular, the nuclear forces, the symbol of our national strength and the
core of our military power, should be strengthened in terms of both quality and
scale, so that they can perform nuclear combat capabilities in any situations
of warfare, according to purposes and missions of different operations and by various
means.
The
prevailing situation demands that more proactive measures be taken to provide a
firm and sustained guarantee for the modern character and military
technological supremacy of our Republic's armed forces.
To
cope with the rapidly-changing political and military situations and all the
possible crises of the future, we will advance faster and more dynamically
along the road of building up the self-defensive and modern armed forces, which
we have followed unwaveringly, and, especially, will continue to take measures
for further developing the nuclear forces of our state at the fastest possible
speed.
The
fundamental mission of our nuclear forces is to deter a war, but our nukes can
never be confined to the single mission of war deterrent even at a time when a
situation we are not desirous of at all is created on this land.
If
any forces try to violate the fundamental interests of our state, our nuclear
forces will have to decisively accomplish its unexpected second mission.
The
nuclear forces of our Republic should be fully prepared to fulfil their
responsible mission and put their unique deterrent in motion at any time.
Comrades,
officers and men of the People's Army,
Our
armed forces are now fully prepared for any type of war.
If
any forces attempt military confrontation with the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, they will be perished.
All
the armed forces of the DPRK, with the heroic Korean People's Army as their
core, should always firmly believe in their cause, march forward valiantly
against all challenges filled with confidence, remain faithful to their sacred
mission of defending the safety, dignity and happiness of the people, and
securely guarantee the development of our socialism by maintaining their
invincible military supremacy.
All
the officers and men of the armed forces of the Republic,
As
long as your hearts are pulsating with the precious blood and noble spirit of
the revolutionary forerunners and as long as the revolutionary armed forces are
always standing at the vanguard of the revolution as the embodiment of the
ideology and will of the Workers' Party of Korea and of the strength of our
state and people, the cause of socialism of our own style will be
ever-victorious in the future, too.
Commanding
officers and men of the KPA and all other armed forces of the DPRK,
For
the safety and happiness of our great people, For the eternal glory and victory
of our great state, Let us fight vigorously.
Long
live our great revolutionary armed forces!
Long
live our great country, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
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