Under the Leadership of Great Commanders

February 8, Juche 112 (2023) marks the 75 th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army. The KPA’s history is a period in which it has been continuously strengthened under the leadership of the great commanders. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung , founding father of socialist Korea, regarded organizing a powerful regular army as a prerequisite for building an independent sovereign state after the country’s liberation from Japan’s military occupation on August 15, 1945, and founded the KPA as regular revolutionary armed forces, which inherited the traditions of the anti-Japanese struggle. The US imperialists ignited the Korean war on June 25, 1950, when it was a little more than two years after the founding of the KPA, but it defeated them and achieved a historic victory in the war on July 27, 1953. Since then it has firmly guaranteed the victorious advance of socialism in the country by frustrating the ceaseless military provocations by the US imperialists. These owe all t