Speech
Delivered by Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of KPA,
at
Military Parade Held in Celebration of Centenary of Birth of
Generalissimo Kim Il Sung
April 15th Juche 101(2012)
Officers and men of the
three services and strategic rocket force of the heroic Korean People’s Army
and officers and men of the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces,
Members of the
Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards, Working people across the
country and Pyongyang citizens, Compatriots in south Korea and abroad,
Comrades and friends,
Today, with a great national
pride and dignity, we are holding a military parade in celebration of the
centenary of the birth of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.
This military parade,
unprecedented of its kind in the history of the KPA, is a grand festival of
victors, arranged by the noble intention and personal proposal of the great
Comrade Kim Jong Ilto glorify the immortal exploits achieved by the great
ComradeKim Il Sung in army building and demonstrate to the whole world the
might of the powerful socialist Korea.
Availing myself of this
significant opportunity, I would like to extend, in reflection of the boundless
feeling cherished by all the service personnel and
people, the highest respect and greatest
glory to Comrades
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, banners of all victories, who founded
and built up our revolutionary armed forces.
My respect also goes to the
fighters of the anti-Japanese revolution and soldiers of the KPA, who dedicated
their precious lives to the independence and sovereignty of their country and
the freedom of their fellow people.
I warmly congratulate the
officers and men of the KPA and the KPISF, members of the Worker-Peasant Red
Guards and Young Red Guards and all other people, who have greeted the
meaningful anniversary days of this year with proud successes in strengthening
combat capabilities and bringing about a great revolutionary upsurge by
displaying an unexcelled heroic spirit and devotion at the national defence
posts and construction sites of a thriving country.
I extend warm greetings to
the compatriots in south Korea and abroad, who are devoting their all to the
patriotic cause for achieving reunification and prosperity of their motherland,
and express gratitude to the foreign friends who are rendering active support
and encouragement to the just cause of our people.
Comrades,
The 100-year history of the
great Kim Il Sung’s nation is a history that clearly proves the iron truth
that outstanding leaders assure the self-respect and prosperity of a country
and nation.
The Korean nation, though it
had been proud of its 5 000-year-long history and brilliant culture, had to
regard sycophancy to big countries and national ruin as its fate because it had
not received correct leadership and had had no strength with which to defend
itself. It was the image of our nation a century ago, the image of the
miserable colonial country.
However, the 100-year
history of Kim Il Sung’s nation put a final end to the history full of
vicissitudes, and has raised the dignity of our country and nation to the
highest level in their history.
The geopolitical position of
the country is the same as ever, but the weak country of yesterday which was
trodden underfoot as a theatre of wrangling among big powers to expand the
sphere of their influence, has now been turned into a proud political and
military power and our people are demonstrating their dignity as an independent
people whom no one dares to provoke.
These miraculous changes
that have taken place in the destiny of our nation are not just a fortuitous
event which resulted from the lapse of time but an inevitable outcome of
history brought about by the great President Kim Il Sung and
General Kim Jong Il, who pioneered and led the Songun revolution.
As they were led by the
peerlessly great leaders, who built up the elite revolutionary armed forces,
regarding giving priority to arms as the fundamentals of the revolution, our
country and people could bring about radical changes in their destiny and see
today’s grand festival, which will demonstrate to the whole world the strength
of Songun Korea.
President Kim Il Sung,
having clarified in his early years the iron truth that arms are precisely the
lifeline of a nation and the victory of the revolution, founded in the forests
of Paektu 80 years ago the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army made up of fine
sons and daughters of the people, the first Juche-type revolutionary armed
force of Korea.
With the founding of the
KPRA, our people could have their own genuine army for the first time in their
history, and this marked the beginning of the glorious history of the Korean
revolution which would advance on the strength of arms.
Comrade Kim Il Sung,
who put primary efforts into strengthening the revolutionary armed forces
throughout his revolutionary career, worked military miracles of the 20th
century by defeating two imperialist powers, the most ferocious forces in the
world, in his generation, developed the KPA into a-match-for-a-hundred powerful
revolutionary army and accomplished arming all the people and making the whole
country fortified, thus providing a solid military guarantee for ensuring the
sovereignty of the country and everlasting prosperity of the nation.
General Kim Jong Il,
regarding carrying forward and accomplishing the Juche-oriented revolutionary
cause of Songun as his lifelong mission, ushered in the golden age of the
development of our revolutionary armed forces by dint of his uncommon wisdom,
outstanding military commandership and matchless courage.
In the grimmest period ever
witnessed in our revolution, he developed the KPA into the ranks of an elite
force, ensured successive victories in the unprecedented struggle to defend
socialism and performed the huge historic exploit of raising the status of our
country to that of a world-class military power by administering the
ever-victorious Songun politics.
Under the leadership of
President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, our armed forces
gave full play to their dignity as an army distinctive in their revolutionary
character and unparalleled in their militant temperament and might.
The course of proud struggle
traversed by our revolutionary armed forces has witnessed do-or-die showdowns
with imperialist powers and grand construction campaigns for laying eternal
foundations for the country’s prosperity.
In the course of this, our
revolutionary armed forces have remained boundlessly faithful to their first
and foremost mission as a genuine army of the leader and the Party, and lived
up to the expectations of the country and people with credit.
The noble spirit of
defending the leader unto death, created by the anti-Japanese guerrillas, has
been the absolute motto of our army and the source of its mental strength and
combat efficiency, as well as a precious tradition for the later generations.
The KPA has been the first
to hold up the banner of death-defying defence of the leaders and has taken the
lead in staunchly safeguarding the lifeline of the Juche revolution in days of
both glory and trials; this constitutes the greatest of exploits it has
performed for the revolution.
The history of our army,
which made its start with two pistols and has developed into a matchless force
that terrifies the imperialist aggressors, is unprecedented in the world
history of army building.
In the long period from its
founding to the present, it fought a guerrilla war, a regular war and a
showdown without gunshot; in the course of this, it has acquired all-powerful,
Juche-oriented combat methods and accumulated experiences in achieving only
victory, and developed into powerful armed forces possessed of the means of
both attack and defence of our own style that are fully capable of coping with
modern warfare of any type.
The military and
technological edge is no longer the monopoly of imperialists, and the era is
gone forever when the enemy would threaten us with atomic bombs. Today’s grand
military demonstration will be clear proof of this.
Since the very day when it
was named after people, the KPA, as the defender of the country and artist of
people’s happiness, has left remarkable traces in the building of a prosperous
and powerful country.
The monumental edifices that
have sprung up in all parts of the country and the numerous socialist assets
that render a contribution to people’s living are all permeated with the
precious blood and sweat of our service personnel.
The powerful revolutionary
army of Mt. Paektu with great pride in being the army of the leader, the Party
and the people and with invincible might is the most important heritage that
the great generalissimos left for their beloved country, and to have such
valuable inheritance is a great blessing and a source of pride for our Party
and people.
The heroic KPA which
recorded only victories has assured the glorious 100-year history of Juche Korea, and this constitutes a sure guarantee for the
everlasting history of Kim Il Sung’s nation,Kim Jong Il’s Korea.
Shining for all eternity in
the history of our motherland will be the sacred revolutionary careers and
immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong
Il who opened the new history of national independence by blazing the
trail fraught with hardships for the Songun revolution and laid a solid basis
for the prosperity of the country and for the happiness of all the generations
to come.
Comrades,
Today we stand at the
watershed in history marking the start of a new century of the Juche era.
Now is a
responsible and important period requiring
us who learned the revolution from
General Kim Jong Il to be more energetic than any other time.
The 4th Conference of the
Workers’ Party of Korea and the 5th Session of the 12th Supreme People’s
Assembly, historic meetings held a few days ago, acclaimed General Kim
Jong Il as the eternal leader of our revolution, as the eternal General
Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the eternal Chairman of the
National Defence Commission of our Republic.
This is an expression of the
unshakeable will of our Party, army and people to inherit and accomplish the
revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered on Mt. Paektu without any deviation and
without any concession as the President and the General did, holding aloft the
great banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The permanent strategy of
our revolution and its final victory lie in going straight along the road of
independence, the road of Songun, the road of socialism, indicated by
President Kim Il Sungand General Kim Jong Il.
If we are to add eternal
glory to the dignity of Songun Korea and bring to successful completion the cause of
building a thriving socialist country, we should, above all else, strengthen
the KPA in every way.
The KPA should remain
reliable vanguard and solid cornerstone of the Songun revolution, which is
ready to blaze the trail under the leadership of the Party and firmly guarantee
its cause by force of arms.
What cannot be changed even
though the times may elapse and one generation may be replaced by another is
the original revolutionary form of our army which bears resemblance to
President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il and the
fighting mode of the revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu which advances holding
high the red flag of the Workers’ Party as its first banner.
The KPA should intensify the
movement for winning the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment as required by
the developing situation, so as to turn itself into today’s 7th Regiment which
is fully equipped with the spirit of becoming human rifles and bombs, a spirit
cherished by the anti-Japanese guerrillas.
It should thoroughly apply
our Party’s Juche-oriented military ideas and lines to its military and
political work and establish more firmly the revolutionary command system, so
as to become an integral whole, which is ideologically pure and highly
organized and which shares the Party’s ideology, breathes the same breath with
it and keeps pace with it.
It should conduct training
more intensively as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did on Mt. Paektu, so as to
prepare all its officers and men to
be fully-ready combatants, who have acquired
the ever-victorious
Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s strategies and tactics, mode of bold
attack and all-round practical abilities, and perfect its regular aspects as
befits an elite revolutionary force which is strong in discipline and excellent
within and without.
The entire army having
become an entity of comrades-in-arms and all the service personnel and people
having formed a harmonious whole around the Party–this is the real might of the
KPA, and herein lies the main key to strengthening its military strength.
Upholding the slogan “Let
all the service personnel become true comrades-in-arms!” the KPA should give
fuller scope to the traditional trait of unity between officers and men, and
the entire army should become a unit of comrades-in-arms, who share blood and
life on the road of the Songun revolution.
Officers and men are all
valuable comrades-in-arms of the Supreme Commander. What I believe is not any
of the modern military hardware, like guns or rockets, but the dear
rank-and-file soldiers; the Supreme Commander as well as officers exists for
them.
All the officers should take
warm care of their men with the feeling of their eldest brothers and sisters
and as their true comrades-in-arms, and make it their habit to make devoted
efforts until their shoes are worn out.
Army-people unity is the
roots of our society and the great foundation of the Songun revolution.
By inheriting the traditions
of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army, the KPA should always take the lead and be
a forerunner in consolidating the great army-people unity.
It should continue to hold
high the slogan “Help the people!” set forth by General Kim Jong Il.
Officers and men of the KPA
should fulfil the duty of the army of the people by doing many more things for
the benefit of the people with a feeling of doing them for their own parents
and brothers and of taking care of their own homes.
It is a firm determination
of our Party to ensure that our people, who are the best in the world and who
have remained faithful to the Party in the face of all manner of difficulties,
do not have to tighten their belts again, but enjoy all the benefits of
socialism.
We should cultivate with
care the valuable seeds, which the great General sowed for the building of an
economic power and the improvement of the people’s standard of living, and
bring them to brilliant fruition.
Single-hearted unity and
invincible military might plus the industrial revolution in the new century is
just the thriving socialist country.
By making the flames of the
industrial revolution in the new century and the flames of Hamnam flare up more
fiercely, we should take the road of building an economic power in a
comprehensive way.
Officers and men of the KPA
should continuously display the might of the powerful revolutionary army, which
does not know the word impossible, and make breakthroughs in the great upsurge
on all the major fronts for the building of an economic power and improving of
the people’s standard of living.
All the officials, Party
members and other working people should raise the wind of achieving great
innovations and upsurge for leaping forward from one decade to another on all
the fronts of socialist construction, taking their cue from the mettle of
fighting and way of creating of the KPA that never fails to see what it does
through to the finish at a go once it is determined.
Peace is very valuable for
our Party and the government of the DPRK that are making efforts to attain the
general goal of building a thriving nation and improving the people’s living standards.
But, more valuable for us are the nation’s dignity and the country’s
independence.
In order to reliably
safeguard the dignity and independence of our Republic and assure genuine peace
and the country’s security, all the officers and men of the KPA should firmly
defend our Party’s cause of building a thriving nation by force of arms, always
preserving its revolutionary nature and maintaining full combat readiness.
It is, indeed, heartrending
that our compatriots who lived as a homogeneous nation in the same territory
for long have suffered the pain of division for nearly 70 years.
Our Party and the government
of the DPRK will join hands with anyone who sincerely wishes the reunification
of the country and peace and prosperity of the nation, and make responsible and
persevering efforts to realize the historic cause of the country’s
reunification.
Comrades,
Our cause is just, and the
strength of Korea fostered by truth is inexhaustible.
As President Kim Il
Sung and General Kim Jong Il, who live in the hearts of all the
service personnel of the KPA and the people across the country, wish our bright
future, and as we have the matchless revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu, the
invincible great army-people unity and the faithful people who support the
cause of the Party with conscience and the sense of obligation, we are sure to
emerge victorious.
I will always be a
comrade-in-arms of my comrades, sharing the same destiny with them on the
sacred road of the Songun revolution and, true to the behests of General Kim
Jong Il, fulfil the responsibility I have assumed for the country and the
revolution.
Let us all fight vigorously
united firmly in one mind and one will as
befit the descendants of President
Kim Il Sung and the soldiers and devoted followers of GeneralKim Jong Il.
The flags bearing the
beaming images of President Kim Il Sungand General Kim Jong
Il will flutter forever in the van of our revolutionary ranks that achieve
only victory and glory, always inspiring us to fresh victories.
Forward towards the final
victory!
