August 25 specially etched in history of building up revolutionary armed forces
August 25, 2026Chairman
From that day on, he continued his field inspection of the KPA units to steadily strengthen and develop the revolutionary armed forces politically, ideologically and in military technique.
He made sure that the service personnel of the KPA prepared it as an army strong in ideology and faith in which they fight to defend their country and the people at the cost of their lives and are firmly united with a single ideology and purpose.
Under the energetic leadership of the Chairman who paid attention to giving full play to the political and ideological advantages of the KPA, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK could firmly preserve their character and original nature of reliably defending the country and the people militarily.
He developed the KPA into an invincible army fully prepared not only politically and ideologically but also in military technique.
In order to make the KPA an elite combat force, he ensured that every training ground of it was filled with the spirit of a-match-for-a-hundred combatants and the will to annihilate the enemy. Particularly in the 1990s, he frequently visited the outposts for national defence including Chol Pass, Mt Osong and Cho Island in order to turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress.
He paid close attention to making material and technical preparations for coping with war at any moment in conformity with the specific conditions of the country which was building socialism in constant confrontation with the US imperialists and energetically led the struggle to make the defence industry Juche-oriented and modern.
Under the leadership of the Chairman who prioritized the development of the defence industry, it developed into a modern and self-supporting defence industry producing any kind of military hardware at will.
He led the KPA to become not only the driving force of national defence but the standard-bearer making a breakthrough for advance in major sites of socialist construction.
He initiated large-scale construction projects for sprucing up the country with trust in the KPA and put it forward in the vanguard of the march for a great upswing in economic construction and the improvement of the people's living standards. As a result, in such trying periods of the Arduous March and the forced march, the KPA played the role of not only the defender of the country and creator of the people's happiness but also as the pacesetter and model instilling in the people the revolutionary ideology and spirit and fighting traits.
Today when the KPA’s invincible spirit is being demonstrated to the full, the Korean people celebrate historic August 25 while recollecting once again the immortal leadership exploits performed by Chairman
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