North Korea Orders Military Role in Economic Construction on Army Foundation Day

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] On the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army, North Korea ordered the People's Army to take a leading role in large-scale construction and overall economic development.

The Workers' Party organ, Rodong Sinmun, stated in an editorial on the 8th titled "With a revolutionary party army endlessly loyal to the leadership of the Workers' Party, the socialist cause of Juche is invincible," that "the People's Army is the vanguard and exemplary group that realizes the Party's socialist construction plan at the forefront."

The editorial emphasized, "In the struggle to achieve new victories in socialist construction, the power of great unity between the military and the people and military-civilian cooperative operations must be fully demonstrated," adding, "The army must take the initiative and play a leading role in military-civilian cooperative operations to develop the garrison areas’ cities and counties into socialist model mountainous and mining cities, such as the project to build the Komdok area into a national model mountainous and mining city."

It also stressed that the military is under the thorough control of the Workers' Party and must work for the Party. The newspaper stated, "Strict discipline and order must be further established, with absolute obedience to the orders of the Party Central Committee throughout the entire army, doing only what the Party commands," and "The overall orientation of all military activities is to resolutely defend the Party Central Committee and implement the Party's decisions."

Strong warfighting capability was also emphasized. The newspaper said, "The People's Army possesses a powerful warfighting capability capable of responding to any form of war desired by aggressor forces and decisively suppressing and crushing them," adding, "If hostile forces even slightly touch us, we will preemptively mobilize the strongest offensive power and thoroughly punish them outside the territory of the Republic."

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Unification stated, "There have been reports such as the editorial on the front page of Rodong regarding the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the army and letters and visits to military personnel, but there have been no special developments reported so far."

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