Rodong Sinmun Praises Kim Jong Il for Building Juche-oriented Revolutionary Armed Forces

Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun on Monday carries an editorial on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army (KPA). Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the KPA on December 24, Juche 80 (1991) was a historic event which provided a sure guarantee for successfully accomplishing the cause of the Juche revolution and the cause of the Songun revolution which were pioneered on Mt. Paektu, the editorial says, and goes on: He set forth the policy of modeling the entire army on Kimilsungism as required by the developing revolution advancing under the unfurled banner of modeling the whole society on Kimilsungism in the early 1970s and thus provided a radical milestone in the struggle for developing the revolutionary armed forces. He turned the DPRK into a nuclear weapons state and the matchless military power and handed over the Paektusan army as the best legacy of the revolution. This is the feats performed by him, the peerlessly Songun brilliant commander, in the history of the nation. The DPRK was sure to win as there are the wise leadership of the Party which is glorifying his idea of the Songun revolution and exploits, the powerful Juche-oriented revolutionary armed forces and the service personnel and people rallied around the Party single-mindedly. -0-