The statement recalled that President Kim Il Sung founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on April 25, Juche 21 (1932).

It went on:

The Paektusan revolutionary armed forces which developed into the KPA after liberation have won shining victories.

The U.S. imperialist aggressors who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world bent their knees before the KPA.

This historic miracle proves that the army which is led by the great leader who loves the country and its people is fully capable of defeating any formidable enemy.

The victory of the KPA inspired the world people in their struggle for the national and social liberation.

The DPRK emerged a powerful nuclear weapons state thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il.

The KPA holding Marshal Kim Jong Un in high esteem as its supreme commander has decisively foiled the frantic moves of the U.S. imperialist warmongers to ignite a war and defended peace on the Korean peninsula and the world peace.

The heroic KPA possessed of powerful combat capability is a treasured sword for the victory of Songun Korea and an invincible iron shield.