The article said right after Korea's liberation President Kim Il Sung pushed ahead with the building of regular armed forces on the basis of the precious experience he gained during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

The article introduced the undying exploits he performed by founding Pyongyang Institute, the first institution for military education in Korea and a centre for training military and political cadres for building a regular army.

He organized core units of modern regular armed forces and expanded them into several services and arms units and sub-units, the article noted, and went on:

He also paid deep attention to laying a foundation of self-reliant ordnance industry.

On Feb. 8, 1948 there took place a grand military parade in Pyongyang under his wise leadership, a declaration of the birth of the Korean People's Army.

In the Korean war which broke out two years since then, the Korean People's Army inflicted upon the U.S. forces a heavy defeat, the first of its kind in the history, though it boasted of being the "strongest" in the world, and honorably defended the national sovereignty and dignity.

Over the past several decades of confrontation with the U.S. since the ceasefire in the war the KPA has always foiled all the U.S. military threats and provocations and demonstrated the might as an invincible army.