The statement said:

The KPA has its roots in the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army founded in 1932 by President Kim Il Sung, the gifted strategist and invincible and iron-willed commander.

Kim Il Sung defeated Japanese imperialism with his exquisite tactics and far-sighted stratagem.

The KPA which inherited the anti-Japanese war traditions under his leadership dealt telling defeat to U.S. imperialism in the Fatherland Liberation War and foiled such ceaseless provocations by the U.S. imperialists as the "Pueblo" incident, large spy plane "EC-121" incident and the Panmunjom incident in the subsequent period.

The KPA has grown to be a-match-for-a hundred steel-strong ranks under the care of Kim Il Sung.

It is the genuine revolutionary armed forces of Juche and the army of the party and the leader.

Under the Songun leadership of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il the KPA has gained bigger successes and grown to be the invincible forces.

It is firmly defending Korean-style socialism and the world peace.