December 30 this year marks the 14th anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's appointment as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Kim Jong Un accelerated the work for making the revolutionary armed forces most elite and powerful with his extraordinary military wisdom and energetic leadership, thus placing the dignity of the DPRK on the highest plane.

One day in April 2012, he met officials and stressed the need to strengthen the military strength of the country in every way.

That day, he said: We should never forget the lesson of bitter history of the past days when we lost our country because of our weak military force and had to face the miserable destiny of colonial slavery. It is the grim reality today that if a country has poor military power, it cannot defend its sovereignty and right to live and in the end, will become a plaything and victim of the imperialists. Accordingly, we must consistently hold fast to the work for strengthening our military force.

At the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un underscored the need to prepare the People's Army thoroughly as a revolutionary army of the Party boundlessly loyal to its guidance and as an ideologically and technically strong army.

On several occasions including the Fifth Conference of Training Officers of the Korean People's Army, he said that at wartime, soldiers who fight well are heroes, but in peacetime, those who train well are heroes and patriots, and underlined the need to bring about a revolutionary change in training so as to make the People's Army an invincible elite revolutionary army that wins all fights.

Kim Jong Un made great efforts to strengthen the revolutionary armed forces into the most elite and powerful ones.

He called on soldiers of an islet defence detachment through the sea route with raging waves though officials dissuaded him from doing so, saying there are his most beloved soldiers on Jangjae Islet and that he should visit all places where soldiers are although they are dangerous.

When he visited the post at Panmunjom, the forefront of confrontation between friend and foe, he withdrew the soldiers on guard duty to have a photo taken with them, saying he would defend Panmunjom that day. Once, he also climbed up the Kkachilbong post on Mt. Osong which was only hundreds of metres away from the enemy position.

When he visited the powder-reeking training grounds and trenches, he gave unexpected situations to any units and sub-units at any time to learn about their preparedness for action, leading the soldiers to be invincible warriors.

He called at the sites of test-firing strategic weapons for strengthening the national defence capacity time and again to encourage the defence scientists and technicians while giving them key of success.

Dr. Ri Yong Chol, Section Chief of the Academy of Social Sciences, said Kim Jong Un left his noble traces in the field of national defence in 2024 as well, and continued:

"The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited major munitions factories in succession, guided the test-fire of new weapons on the spot and participated in the ceremony of transferring and receiving new-type tactical ballistic missile system, dynamically leading the work for strengthening the national defence capacity. In this way, he strengthened the military power of the revolutionary armed forces in every way."

It is the firm will of Kim Jong Un to constantly strengthen and develop the revolutionary armed forces into the ever-victorious, invincible revolutionary army for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the generations to come.