The U.S.-led imperialists intensified moves to stifle the DPRK in coincidence with collapse of socialism in East European nations.

The U.S. provocative moves to unleash another war against the DPRK got a new momentum in Juche 87 (1998).

They launched a blockade of the DPRK in carrying out the operational plan "OPLAN 5027" aimed to make a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK.

The danger of a new war between the DPRK and the United States reached an extreme phase and the peace of the Korean Peninsula, northeast Asia and the rest of the world was seriously threatened.

At that time, a statement of the spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army was released.

It is a tradition and reaction method peculiar to the KPA to return fire for fire. Preemptive attack is not a choice for the United States only, the statement said. The KPA will answer the U.S. provocation with merciless annihilating blow.

Thus, Kim Jong Il met all sorts of challenge of the imperialists with such tough military counteraction in the whole period of Songun leadership.

His Songun leadership foiled the imperialists' "nuclear racket" and moves to stifle socialism in the DPRK and defended the sovereignty of the country.

Kim Jong Il was really a peerlessly illustrious commander, who defended the dignity of the country and nation and socialism by force of arms.