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Swiss Bodies Issue Joint Statement to Mark KPRA Founding Anniversary

Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The Swiss Organizing Committee for the 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 issued a joint statement on April 19 on the occasion of the founding anniversary of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA).

The joint statement said that President Kim Il Sung founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA), the first revolutionary armed force of Juche type in Korea, on April 25, 1932.

It said that the KPRA defeated the Japanese imperialists under the leadership of legendary hero Kim Il Sung to liberate the country on August 15, 1945, a long cherished desire of the Korean people.

It said that he had exerted himself for the building of the regular armed forces after the liberation of the country, thus founding the Korean People's Army (KPA) on Feb. 8, 1948.

The KPA defeated the U.S. imperialists in the three year-long Fatherland Liberation War to creditably defend the freedom and sovereignty of the country, it said.

It stressed that the KPA is strengthening and developing into invincible revolutionary armed forces under the wise guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.