National Meeting Marks 85th Birthday of KPA

Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Monday in celebration of the 85th founding anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA). President Kim Il Sung founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the first revolutionary armed forces of Juche type on April 25, Juche 21 (1932). The report was made by Army General Pak Yong Sik, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and minister of the People's Armed Forces of the DPRK. He said that the 85-year-long history of the KPA is the glorious road under which it has developed into the army of the Party and the leader and a-match-for-a- hundred Paektusan revolutionary strong army under the banners of Juche and Songun, weathering ordeals of the revolution. He went on: The President strengthened the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into a model revolutionary army in the era of independence and powerful leadership core of the Juche revolution during the anti-Japanese war and defeated the gangster-like Japanese imperialists through the nation-wide anti-Japanese national liberation struggle centered on armed struggle. He successfully accomplished the cause of building regular armed forces on the basis of the Songun tradition of Paektu after the liberation of the country and inflicted disgraceful defeat on the U.S. imperialist aggressors who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world and defended the freedom and independence of the country by leading the Fatherland Liberation War to victory. The KPA, which was founded and covered its glorious path under his leadership, reached a new high stage in its development under the guidance of leader Kim Jong Il, the great Songun brilliant commander. The KPA has greeted the most glorious era in the cause of building the army of Juche thanks to respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, another peerlessly great man of Paektu. If the enemies dare opt for the military adventure despite our repeated warnings, our armed forces will wipe the strongholds of aggression off the surface of the earth through the powerful preemptive nuclear attacks as they have already declared and thus accomplish the historic cause of national reunification without fail. -0-