Rodong Sinmun says that the KPA is a powerful core force for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche and building a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation.

The history of the KPA means the history of the Korean revolution and the invincible strength of the People's Army guarantees the tremendous national power of Kim Il Sung's Korea and its rosy future, it adds.

President Kim Il Sung was a peerlessly brilliant commander who gave origin to Songun and paved the way for building the Juche-based revolutionary armed forces, it notes, and goes on:

The KPA is the proud revolutionary armed forces which have steadily carried forward the glorious history and tradition of the main forces for the revolution under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The KPA's history is a sacred course in which it set shining examples in devotedly safeguarding the leader in every grim period of the revolution, a shining history in which it won victories and wrought miracles in the showdown with the United States and other imperialists and the building of a thriving nation by displaying the indomitable revolutionary spirit and popular heroism and a course in which it dynamically led the revolutionary ranks as a vanguard unit and main force for the revolution.

The KPA has demonstrated its might as a single-mindedly united core force of the entire party and army and all the people rallied close around Kim Jong Il, a powerful vanguard which translates the Workers' Party of Korea's plan for building a thriving nation into a shining reality and a reliable defender of the socialist country of Juche.

The KPA will always demonstrate its dignity as vanguard and main force in the struggle for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche and building a thriving socialist nation and successfully perform its historic mission before the country and nation under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.

Minju Joson stresses that it is thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il that the KPA has demonstrated its might as a main force of the revolution of Juche in defending socialism and building a thriving nation.