The Swiss Organizing Committee for International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, the Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said in a joint statement issued on February 1 on the occasion of the 72nd birthday of the KPA.

The statement said that President Kim Il Sung founded the KPA, the regular revolutionary armed forces of liberated Korea on Feb. 8, 1948.

He, the ever-victorious commander and brilliant strategist, led the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War to victory with his iron courage and will, the statement noted.

It pointed out that Chairman Kim Jong Il developed in depth the Songun idea President Kim Il Sung founded, and turned Korea into invincible military power with the unique Songun politics.

It said that Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is wisely leading the building of a powerful socialist nation by faithfully inheriting the idea and cause of the preceding great leaders.