The tradition of the DIU, provided by President Kim Il Sung, is the origin of the Korean revolution, a glorious symbol of its history and the lifeline of Songun Korea.

The President, who started revolutionary activities in his early years, organized the DIU, a new vanguard of the Korean revolution, on October 17 Juche 15 (1926).

The formation of the DIU was a starting point of the founding of a Juche-typed revolutionary party, its anti-imperialist fighting spirit constituted a basis of Songun politics and its program for socialist construction became the fundamental ideal of the revolution.

The Workers' Party of Korea, carrying forward the DIU tradition, has set a splendid model in accomplishing the cause of the popular masses' independence and the cause of socialism through a protracted and arduous revolution.

The President, who inherited two pistols from his father along with far-reaching aims of the revolution, prepared young people as core members of an armed unit-to-be under the banner of the DIU and provided a true model in building revolutionary armed forces, deeply aware that the revolution should be carried on with arms.

The formation of the DIU also put an end to the distress-torn history of factional strife and split-up and ushered in a new history of single-mined unity. This feat of the DIU served as a precious treasure for completing the revolutionary cause of Juche and a basic source of Korean socialism's great viability.

The DIU tradition has been carried forward successfully by leader Kim Jong Il through generations and centuries.