Institutions, industrial establishments, factories, farms, schools and all other units across the country supported the army with might and main.

People's delegations visited units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on the army day and shared warm feelings of kinship with soldiers, conveying them tidings from the rear and handing over aid goods permeated with the sincerity of the people to them.

Ministries and national institutions including the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport, the Ministry of Extractive Industries and the Ministry of Chemical Industry sent aid goods helpful to military and political training and military service of the servicepersons to KPA units and the Songyo Knitting Factory, the Hamhung Wooden Ware Factory, the North Hamgyong Provincial People's Hospital and other units, lots of families and individual working people across the country devoted their patriotic ardor to aiding the army.

KPA soldiers on their part displayed the noble manner of voluntarily doing good things for the people under the slogan "Let us help the people!" And they extended support, material and moral, to such main economic sectors as power, coal and metal industries and railway transport.

KPA units provided nearby co-op farms with farming materials and spared no effort in helping them with workforce. Soldiers saved the lives and properties of people with self-sacrificing spirit, braving danger, when unexpected accidents happened in the areas where they are stationed.

The army and people of the DPRK will surely build a great, prosperous and powerful nation in this land with the might of single-minded unity, upholding the Songun revolutionary leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il