The Korean People's Army, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK, from the outset of its foundation, has played a great role in defending the Party, the leader, the country and the people with arms and victoriously advancing the revolutionary cause of Juche, smashing the challenges and aggression of the imperialists and all other enemies.
Thanks to the wise leadership of President
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The immortal exploits accomplished by President
The founding of the regular armed forces of the nation was an essential requirement for building an independent and sovereign state.
Moreover, it was a vital demand emanating from the political situation prevailing in our country since the country's liberation.
The Japanese imperialists were defeated and the country liberated, but half of the country was still occupied by outside forces.
Under these circumstances, the building of its own powerful revolutionary regular armed forces as early as possible was an urgent task.
It was very difficult to build a modern regular army at that time when our country was newly liberated, but our people were equipped with practical possibilities and conditions for building the regular army.
President
In addition, there was the KPRA which grew up to be an invincible iron-willed rank in the grim flames of the 15-year-long anti-Japanese armed struggle and rich experience and brilliant traditions of army building.
With scientific insight into the prevailing situation and the subjective and objective conditions, the President set forth an original policy of building the revolutionary regular army on the basis of the far-reaching plan of building the revolutionary armed forces ripened up during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and personally organized and led the struggle for realizing them.
The policy of building the regular army advanced by the President was the most revolutionary one to indicate the right way that enabled the countries which achieved national independence to defend their national independence and to build the revolutionary armed forces to reliably guarantee the building of a new society by force.
Thanks to the energetic and seasoned leadership of the President who set forth the policy of building a revolutionary regular army in time to cope with the prevailing situation and personally led the struggle for its realization, the Korean people could successfully build their powerful revolutionary regular armed forces capable of defending the sovereignty of the country and nation and the gains of the revolution in a short span of time in the complicated situation and difficult conditions immediately after the liberation of the country and the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK, could usher in a new high stage in their development.
The immortal exploits of President
What is important in the wise leadership of the President for the building of the regular revolutionary armed forces is that with the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters as the backbone, excellent youths of the workers and peasants were trained and firmly built up into the military and political cadres necessary for the building of the land, sea and air forces.
In order to solve the problem of cadres for the building of the regular armed forces, President
He sent anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to the construction of the regular army intensively and took epochal measures to create regular military education institutions and expand and strengthen them.
Without the establishment of regular military educational institutions, it was impossible to train commanding officers, political officials and technicians needed for the construction of all arms and services in a far-sighted way.
At that time, however, the domestic situation was not as good as to set up all military schools at the same time.
There was a lack of economic assets, and few talents were available to manage military schools.
Therefore, the President decided to establish the mother base for training military and political cadres first and saw to it that the Pyongyang Institute was established.
Three months after the liberation, under the wise leadership and meticulous care of the President, the Pyongyang Institute, the first political and military cadre training institution to contribute to the building of a new country and the building of our people's revolutionary regular armed forces, was founded.
The Pyongyang Institute held a historic inaugural ceremony in the presence of President
Thanks to the Juche-oriented policy of education in military education and the constant care given by the President, the Pyongyang Institute could, in a short time, develop into the parent base for training military and political cadres and the origin of the regular army, and train a large number of military and political cadres required for the building of the regular revolutionary armed forces.
What is important in the wise leadership of the President to build the regular revolutionary armed forces is that he saw to it that the Security Officers Training Centre, the core unit of the building of the regular army was first set up, and, on this basis, several services, arms and sub-units were expanded to organize the regular armed forces.
In order to hasten the training of cadres necessary for the building of a regular army through specialized military educational institutions and realize the plan for organizing military units of the regular armed forces, the President initiated the formation of a security cadre training centre and energetically led the work.
As the building of the regular armed forces had become more intensive and widespread, the Pyongyang Institute alone could not train all military and political cadres of all kinds of services and arms required.
In July Juche 35(1946), President
The President established the Juche-oriented military education system and meticulously led the educational contents and methods to be conducted in our own way on the occasion of the founding of the Central Security Officers School.
At that time, the flunkies and dogmatists who had been involved in military education tried to mechanically emulate others in military education.
The President visited the Central Security Officers School several times and saw to it that our military education was Korean-style as he did during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
The establishment of the Central Security Officers School under the wise leadership of the President and the establishment of Juche in military education made it possible to further expand the base for training cadres in the army and raise the level of specialization and further raise the quality of cadre training through military education in our own way.
The President directed primary efforts to training the cadres of various arms and specialized soldiers of the army as the building of regular armed forces was successfully carried out, and at the same time paid deep attention to training cadres necessary for the building of the navy and air force.
With a far-reaching plan of the construction of modern air force and navy, the President saw to it that the Pyongyang Institute had an aviation class to become the parent base of the Korean Air Force in the spring of Juche 35(1946) and trained air force cadres. In July Juche 36(1947) he saw to it that the Marine Security Officers Training School, the first naval cadre training base in the DPRK, was established and naval cadres trained in a far-sighted way.
As mentioned above, the President advanced the original policy of developing the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into a regular revolutionary armed force and wisely led the struggle for its realization, thus providing a solid core detachment for the building of the regular army in a short period of only two years after the liberation of the country, the ranks of which were rapidly expanded and the technical personnel and material and technical foundations necessary for the building of modern services and arms were fully laid.
On February 8, Juche 37(1948) the President declared the birth of the first regular revolutionary armed forces of Juche type on the basis of all these successes gained in the preparations for the building of the regular army.
That day a grand military parade was held in Pyongyang to declare the founding of the KPA by developing the KPRA into the regular armed force.
After inspecting the ranks of the KPA units, President
In his speech, the President clarified that the KPA is the successor of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the army of the people inheriting the revolutionary traditions of the glorious anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the army of the revolution fighting against foreign aggressor forces and domestic reactionary forces for the freedom and independence of the Korean nation and for the happiness of the popular masses, and he also set forth important tasks for strengthening the KPA politically and ideologically, militarily and technically.
The President's historic speech served as an important guideline on developing the Korean People's Army into a Juche-based revolutionary armed force thoroughly equipped with the Juche idea and struggling for its realization and an invincible army firmly prepared with modern military science and technology.
The founding of the regular revolutionary armed forces was a brilliant victory of the President's Juche-oriented idea on army building and his tireless energetic leadership, who set out in the sacred war for national liberation in his early years and personally planned and ripened up in the flames of the anti-Japanese war.
The precious exploits and rich experience of army building that President
