It was an epoch-making event in carrying out the revolutionary cause of Songun that Kim Jong Un assumed a heavy responsibility of the supreme commander of the KPA, the statement said, and went on:

He is an iron-willed brilliant commander who is surely carrying out the revolutionary cause of Songun true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.

He visited Panmunjom where forces of both sides stand in acute showdown and inspected islet defense detachments stationed at the biggest hotspot of the southernmost area of the southwestern front. It stunned the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces.

He ordered the whole army to immediately deal a deadly blow to the enemy and turn out in an all-out counter strike for achieving the great cause of national reunification if the enemy sparks even a flame on the inviolable territory and territorial waters of the DPRK.

The DPRK successfully launched the satellite under the wise leadership of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un despite the U.S. imperialists and their allies' moves to stifle the DPRK.

He is the supreme commander of the anti-imperialist front who is defending the socialist cause.

We warmly congratulate him on the first anniversary of his assumption of supreme commandership of the KPA.