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Making Revolutionary Armed Forces Most Elite and Powerful

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, advanced the line of making the revolutionary armed forces most elite and powerful, thus providing a milestone for building a powerful army in the new era.

He visited Kim Il Sung University of Politics on February 24, 2025 and said that the foremost might and superiority ourrevolutionary armed forces should steadily adhere to and boost are none other than thepolitical, ideological, spiritual and moral superiority of the army of the people.

Headded that from the historical point of view and in consideration of modernwarfare, we can clearly see in practice the limitation of the militarytechnology-centred theory ignoring the ideological building of the army, and thatimbuing the army with ideology before arming it with military technology is thecore of army building.

It was a conclusion he reached once again that thearms devoid of ideology are little short of ironware and the basic way of building a powerfularmy lies in strengthening the political force of the army on a preferential basis andin a qualitative way.

That day he expressed his original view that soldiers, weaponsand ideology are three elements of the armed forces.

It became the precious guidelines to be adhered to forever in the whole course of making the revolutionary armed forces most elite and powerful.

The Workers' Party of Korea has dynamically led the defence industry revolution aimed at making the KPA stronger in terms of military techniques during the eighth term of its Central Committee.

In the course of it, the first military reconnaissance satellite, tactical nuclear attack submarine, state-of-the-art multi-mission destroyers, new-type strategic reconnaissance drone, nuclear unmanned underwater attack vessels and various other advanced arms and equipment were developed and a number of military hardware exhibitions held with splendour.

Referring to the important features of the defence science and technology of Korean style on October 4, 2025, Kim Jong Un proudly said everyone can clearly see that the defence industry of the DPRK isnow focusing on continuous upgrading and making a leap forward by relying on itsself-supporting foundations, through a unique course of development and byhighly ingenious methods of development in order toprotect the security environment of the state.

He affirmed that our powerful assets for national defence capability will develop more rapidlywithout a moment of delay, and the cause of the WPK for strengthening the wardeterrent for self-defence without let-up will continue to follow the gloriousroad of victory.

The core of our Party’s defence policy is to defend our country and people by our own efforts, and contain any threat and challenge and reliably and steadfastly safeguard peace by means of steadily-developing, powerful defence capability.

Creator of the People's Happiness

In May 2022, Covid-19 that swept the world made inroads into the territory of the DPRK. It was the most serious emergency case.

Kim Jong Un saw that the nationalemergency anti-epidemic system was switched over to a top-level emergency anti-epidemic system and convened important Party meetings in succession to protect the people's lives and security.

A special order of the Central Military Commission of the WPK was issued to the medical sector of the People's Army to commit a powerful force and immediately stabilize the supply ofmedicines in Pyongyang.

The medics of the KPA dispatched to more than 670 pharmacies in the capital city displayed boundless devotion and self-sacrificing spirit to defend the lives and security of the people at the risk of their lives.

On July 27, 2024 the city of Sinuijuand Uiju County of North Phyongan Province were hit by downpour, creating a serious crisis in which thousands of inhabitants were isolated inthe zones vulnerable to flooding in several island areas. At that time, helicopters of the Air Force and various kinds of lifeboatsof the Navy of the KPA were promptlycommitted to rescue all the inhabitants miraculously.

Kim Jong Un organized an operation for rescuing the inhabitants immediately after the emergency situation was created, and drove alongflooded rough roads to guide the tense rescue operation on the spot.

For him, every one of our people was the precious being he could, and must, never lose.

The features of the KPA as the creator of the people's happiness were fully displayed at the grand construction sites as well.

The People's Army always powerfully demonstrated its might in the van of the struggle for the people's happiness including the construction of 50,000 flats in the city of Pyongyang and that of regional-industry factories in cities and counties for the implementation of the new regional development policy of the WPK.

Thanks to its efforts, the 100-hectare Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm was built in South Hamgyong Province in 2022 and the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm, the world's biggest vegetable producer, in 2024 and the construction of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm is nearing completion in 2025.

The KPA showed the world more clearly its features as a powerful army and its noble name of the creator of the people's happiness during the eighth term of the Central Committee of the WPK under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.