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No. 33/22 April 26, 2022
Military Parade Marks 90th Anniversary of KPRA
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- All the civilians and service personnel
in the DPRK, who have striven to fulfill the dreams and ideals of a
powerful nation and accomplish the great cause of building a prosperous
country with strong army under the guidance of the great Workers' Party
of Korea injecting eternal lifeblood into the Juche revolution pioneered
in Mt Paektu, are significantly commemorating the auspicious day of
significance in the nation's history when their revolutionary armed
forces took roots, full of boundless pride and confidence. A grand
military parade to be specially recorded in the country’s history was
held at Kim Il Sung Square in the capital city of Pyongyang on
April 25, the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People's
Revolutionary Army (KPRA), the first revolutionary armed forces of Juche
type.
The
military parade began with a magnificent demonstration of skills by our
dependable paratroopers who landed on the square, fluttering a large
national flag.
The State Merited Chorus in charge of playing music for the parade entered the square.
And
the combined military band entered the square, playing military music
and changing formations to portray two pistols showing the origin of our
revolutionary armed forces, the numbers "4.25.", "90", etc. the emblem
of the Party and the letters "Ongwi" (safeguard) at the square.
April
25, Juche 21 (1932) was the day when the dawn of national liberation
was brought to the Korean people who had been deprived of even their
language and names for having no army guarding the territory of their
nation.
President Kim Il Sung, the legendary hero of the anti-Japanese war, founded the KPRA on that day.
The
ceremonial performance of the combined military band revved up the
celebration atmosphere with lively melodies and powerful rhythmic
movements showing that the glorious history of a-match-for-a-hundred
revolutionary army, which has emerged victorious in the confrontation
with the most outrageous and formidable imperialist enemies over 90
years, and the traditions of the army strong with its idea and faith,
rare to be seen in other parts of the world, the revolutionary army of
the Party, began from that day.
Columns
of cutting-edge military hardware were on standby on the avenues to the
square. They showed well the appearance of the armed forces of the DPRK
that have dramatically developed from the first armed group of Koreans
who declared death-defying resistance against aggressors with only
100-odd rifles on the day 90 years ago.
When Kim Jong Un,
general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, president of the
State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme
commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, arrived at the square
together with his wife Ri Sol Ju, a solemn ceremony of receiving him was
held by the honor guard of the Korean People's Army (KPA).
After receiving a salute from the chief of the honor guard, Kim Jong Un reviewed the honor guard and the glorious colors of the large combined units.
The
outstanding supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK who is an
ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander was greeted by senior
officials of the Ministry of National Defence and commanders of the
large combined units and combined units of the KPA.
Army commanders paid their highest respects carrying their deep gratitude to Kim Jong Un
who made sure that our revolutionary armed forces, the pivot of the
national defence capabilities and the strong fortress for safeguarding
the revolution and the country, demonstrated their military and
political might through a significant parade on their founding day.
Amid the playing of the welcome music, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, together with his wife Ri Sol Ju, took the tribune of the square.
At that moment, the cheers of "Hurrah!" and chants of "Kim Jong Un" and "Kyolsaongwi" (devoted defence) rocked the square.
He waved back to the enthusiastically cheering paraders and spectators.
Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju were presented with bunches of flowers by members of the Children's Union.
Taking the reserved seats were the participants in the celebrations of the 90th founding anniversary of the KPRA.
There was a solemn ceremony of hoisting a national flag.
A
column of women depicting a five-pointed star, an emblem which was
shown on the anti-Japanese guerrillas' caps, entered the square to the
tune of the song "Our National Flag".
Drones depicted a large national flag.
When
the column arrived at the middle of the square, members of the KPA
honor guard emerged from it and marched towards the flagstaff with a
spread national flag.
Amid
the chorus of the national anthem of the DPRK, the national flag
reflecting the invincible might of our country and all the miracles,
victory and the bright future of the people was hoisted.
This flag was hoisted in the sky of new Korea for the first time after President Kim Il Sung liberated the country through hard-fought anti-Japanese war. It is the flag of socialist Korea Chairman Kim Jong Il
defended, overcoming the tempests of history, and the flag of our
dignified powerful country which has grown stronger, performing the
world-startling miracles and changes under the distinguished leadership
of Kim Jong Un.
Fireworks were displayed in the sky where the DPRK flag was fluttering.
And a salute of 21 guns was boomed amid the playing of the song "The Glorious Country".
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a celebration speech.
Referring
to the profound and great significance of the birth of the first
genuine armed forces of Korea 90 years ago in the history of our
revolution and the nation and in the future development of our state and
people, he said that the arms of revolution held by fine sons and
daughters of the Korean people in the forest of Mt Paektu was an
expression of the ever-growing Korean nation's spirit of independence,
hope and the banner of great unity and the motive force that provided
the Koreans with the spirit of self-respect and invincible strength.
He
stressed that as long as the hearts of all the officers and men of the
DPRK armed forces are pulsating with the thick blood and precious soul
of the revolutionary forerunners and the revolutionary armed forces
always stand in the van of the revolution as the paragons of the idea
and will of the Workers' Party of Korea and the power of our state and
people, our socialist cause will always emerge victorious in the future,
too. He ardently called for vigorously struggling for the wellbeing and
happiness of our great people and the eternal glory and victory of our
great state.
Hearing
his touching speech, all the participants burst into stormy cheers with
high national pride of having the peerlessly brilliant commander and
the high glory of having the revolutionary armed forces which have
devotedly preserved the lineage of the Korean revolution and the idea
and cause of the WPK and reliably guaranteed the existence and
development of our state and the happiness of the people.
Then, preparations for the parade were reviewed.
Vice
Marshal of the KPA Ri Yong Gil, minister of National Defence of the
DPRK, made a report to KPA Marshal Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the
Central Military Commission of the WPK, that parade units were ready to
be reviewed.
Pak Jong Chon reviewed the parade units.
He
courteously reported to the General Secretary of the WPK that the
military parade for marking the 90th founding anniversary of the KPRA
was ready to start.
The column of honorary cavalrymen entered the square.
Honorary
cavalrymen, reminding the spectators of the spirit and mettle of the
Korean People's Revolutionary Army which used to appear in the east and
in the west at the same time to confuse and annihilate the enemy under
the guidance of General Kim Il Sung who commanded the anti-Japanese guerilla army on a white horse, rode past the square.
A
column of soldiers representing the period of the anti-Japanese armed
struggle, when the first generation of our revolutionary armed forces
set a shining example of devotedly protecting the leader for the first
time in history and established the traditions of winning victory with
idea and faith, marched past the square with a red flag fluttering.
Then
a column of soldiers representing the period of the Fatherland
Liberation War proudly marched with dignity under the colors associated
with the immortal feats of the heroic soldiers in the 1950s who
performed a unprecedented military miracle by defeating with rifles the
enemy armed with atomic bombs, carrying forward the great traditions of
victory in the anti-Japanese revolutionary war that witnessed the defeat
of the gangster-like Japanese imperialists' one-million strong army
which regarded the KPRA as "a drop in the ocean".
Columns
of marchers passed the square one after another, reminding the
spectators of the great years when the soldiers of the KPA achieved
miraculous victories, unheard-of in the world war history, in ground,
air and sea battles of the 3-year-long hard-fought war against the
barbaric aggression by the U.S. imperialists.
Columns
of soldiers under the Guard Office of the Party Central Committee and
the Guard Department of the State Affairs Commission standing guard over
the supreme staff of the Korean revolution vigorously marched past the
square, vividly representing the revolutionary character of the armed
forces of the Republic and the eternal mission of the nation.
The
columns of soldiers under the Guard Department and the Guard Command
showcased their will to become the very bodyguards and bulletproof wall
that devotedly defend the Party Central Committee true to the noble
spirit of the bodyguards of the anti-Japanese guerilla army who
devotedly defended the headquarters of revolution.
The
column of the First Corps, the strongest corps of the People's Army
called the corps of tigers in Mt Paektu defending the eastern sector of
the front, marched past the square fluttering the colors of elite
divisions whose mere names strike fear into the enemies.
The
columns of the Second and Fourth Corps, the frontline corps in the west
and the units that gave birth to the spirit of match-for-a-hundred
combatants, marched in a fine array under the colors of divisions and
brigades that smashed every reckless military provocation of the enemies
through telling blows.
The
column of the Fifth Corps in charge of the central sector of the front
fully represented the spirit of the frontline service personnel to
annihilate the enemy, performing military exploits while standing guard
over the outpost of the country and the revolution like the guardsmen
who made their way through the flames of war.
Marching
with gallantry to the tune of song of the revolutionary army were navy
and air force columns holding aloft the colors of the naval fleets,
hailed as the death-defying corps of the sea and the unsinkable
battleship, and of the air force divisions displaying their might as the
shields in the sky and the red goshawks.
Following
the energetically marching missile maintenance crewmembers of the
strategic force column, the symbol of the irresistible might of the DPRK
armed forces, the special operations force column, always ready to deal
crushing blows to the enemy in any operation space of land, sea or air
when the time for a decisive battle comes, entered the square.
Kim Jong Un
extended a warm military salute to the service personnel in major
thrusts, the core unit which acts as the backbone of the revolutionary
armed forces and firmly defends the very forefront of national defence.
Columns
of the Anti-aircraft Artillery Corps, the 91st Corps and the 3rd Corps
of the KPA impregnably defending Pyongyang, the heart of the Korean
revolution where the Party Central Committee is situated were followed
by the columns of other corps defending the east and west coastal areas,
the northern areas and border gateways.
Then
columns of tanks and armored vehicle divisions and motorized infantry
divisions including the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division
and the 425th Motorized Infantry Division of the KPA, powerful strike
groups that are prepared to immediately secure any strategic areas
indicated by the Supreme Headquarters, marched proudly under the
uplifted sacred colors bearing the letters "April 25", displaying the
might of the invincible revolutionary Paektusan army that stoutly
preserves the glorious traditions of the anti-Japanese war. The marchers
were full of the steadfast resolution to readily die a heroic death for
the good of the great commander who gives ever-lasting life with warm
feeling, passion, love and trust and teaches strategy of victory and
exceptional bravery.
The
cheers, burst out by the backbone of the elite army, brave soldiers of
the powerful country greatly moved to have the high honor of being
reviewed by Marshal Kim Jong Un, the illustrious commander, rocked the square.
Columns
of students at revolutionary schools who have prepared themselves as
pillars of the Juche revolution while reliably succeeding to the lineage
of Mangyongdae, the lineage of Paektu at the educational seats for the
sons and daughters of revolutionary martyrs associated with the idea of
continuous revolution and love for the younger generation and future of
the WPK went past to the tune of a march.
A
column of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, which have strengthened into
reliable armed forces for safeguarding the socialist country and
defending hometowns by inheriting the tradition of all-people resistance
created during the anti-Japanese war, marched through the square,
carrying the flags of provincial worker-peasant red guards with the
chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Party Committee as its head and
the chief secretaries of provincial Party committees in the van.
A
column of the Ministry of State Security which has demonstrated its
might as a dependable political security force of the Party reliably
protecting the precious gains of the socialist country and the people's
wellbeing and as an elite unit playing a part of the revolutionary armed
forces, columns of the traffic security women, the tracker dog search
party and the special mobile corps of the Public Security Forces and a
column of emergency epidemic prevention workers passed the square.
Kim Jong Un
raised his hands to encourage the marchers who have carried forward the
noble tradition of remaining faithful to their mission for defending
the leader, the social system and the people in the stern annals of the
revolution to reliably safeguard the outposts of class struggle.
Air
squadrons, in formations depicting the five-pointed star and laurel
tree, flew past the sky above the square while letting off fireworks to
brighten the sky.
While
letting off the fireworks, a squadron in a fan-shape formation left the
trails reflecting the ardent will of the combat pilots to devotedly
defend the Party Central Committee with fervent loyalty to it.
The
columns of latest tactical missile units entered the square in the
spirit of smashing the enemy' aggression war hardware at once with high
mobility and annihilating blows, fluttering their colors.
The column of prototype tanks, a symbol of the strong combat power of the KPA and its iron fist, roared past the square.
The great Comrade Kim Jong Un
advanced the outstanding military idea and theory that the true defence
capabilities precisely mean strong attack capabilities and has built up
the great attack capabilities and overwhelming military capabilities
for preventing war, ensuring the national security and surely containing
and controlling any threats and blackmail by the imperialists.
A
column of super-large MLRS, one of absolute weaponry of the DPRK
without an equal in other parts of the world that is capable of carrying
out a scorched-earth operation any moment through successive strike
with major targets of strike in the operational zone in its firing range
roared past the square.
Columns
of strategic missiles entered the square, demonstrating the strong
capabilities for executing a war making it possible to react to any
warfare in the sky, land, sea and outer space and decisively contain and
frustrate the enemy.
WPK-style
Juche-based weapons, our dear ones inspiring great confidence and
eternal treasure of our nation never to be bartered for anything,
appeared one after another.
Amid
the playing of solemn music and focusing of spotlights and display of
fireworks, a great entity representing the strategic forces of the
Republic appeared at the square.
At
that moment the spectators raised loud cheers, greatly excited to see
the giant ICBM Hwasongpho-17 which soared into sky on March 24 to
demonstrate the absolute power of Juche Korea and the strategic position
of our Republic to the world.
They extended highest glory to Kim Jong Un,
great champion of justice and peace and peerless hero who has built up
the national power, the greatest ever since the founding of the country,
and ushered in the era of the most dignified powerful country in the
nation's history of 5 000 years, the era of the our state-first
principle by leading the country and its people with his outstanding
ideology, leadership, passionate love and absolute trust.
Spectacular
fireworks let off in the middle of the Taedong River and from different
parts of the square colorfully decorated the nocturnal sky of April.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the enthusiastically cheering crowds.
The
square was overflowing with the revolutionary enthusiasm of all the
participants to remain loyal to him only with a firm faith that the
Korean revolution pioneered by the President and Korean-style socialism
preserved under the leadership of the Chairman remain unfazed and an
immensely rosy future is in store for the country thanks to the
respected General Secretary.
The
military parade for celebrating the 90th founding anniversary of the
KPRA served as an event of great significance that demonstrated once
again before the world the invincibility, mightiness and radical
development of the armed forces of the Republic that guarantees the
succession and implementation of the revolutionary cause of Juche, while
demonstrating the might as the revolutionary army of the Party that
remains absolutely loyal to the idea and leadership of the WPK and as
the reliable defender of peace , and marked a historic occasion for
greatly encouraging the Korean people in their heroic struggle for
adding glory to the great era of Kim Jong Un and a new era of building a prosperous and powerful nation.
