Tank Division Conveying History of Great Succession Heroic feats of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division of the Korean People's Army (KPA) are recorded in the history of building a revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK. The division is the first tank unit of the KPA which was organized by President Kim Il Sung after Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule. In the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953), the division advanced into Seoul three days after the start of the war, hoisted the DPRK's flag atop the puppet Capital Building and occupied the Seoul broadcasting station to declare the liberation of Seoul. In the whole period of the war, it killed or injured tens of thousands of enemy in different combats, including the combat to liberate Taejon, and destroyed hundreds pieces of guns, tanks, armored cars and other combat equipment of the enemy. Chairman Kim Jong Il started his guidance over the revolutionary armed forces by inspecting t...