On this anniversary, the Korean army and people recall with deep emotion the enduring feats Kim Il Sung performed by leading the Korean revolution to victory with arms.

He led to victory the two-decade anti-Japanese struggle and the three-year war with the U.S. imperialists.

With two pistols bequeathed by his father as an asset, he founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and began fighting against the one million-strong Japanese army to liberate Korea from Japan's colonial rule.

After the country' liberation, he founded the Korean People's Army and led the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) to victory, thus bringing about the beginning of downhill turn for U.S. imperialism for the first time in history.

He made big contributions to bringing to naught the "crusade expedition of the 20th century", launched by the imperialist allied forces, and defended the nation's dignity and sovereignty with arms, which encouraged the world's progressives in their struggle for independence against imperialism.

Kim Il Sung was, indeed, an ever-victorious illustrious commander.