Arms Inheritance

 

Arms inheritance is fundamental in the succession to the revolutionary cause.

In the Juche revolution, December 24 is specially recorded as a day of historic significance in arms inheritance.

Leader Kim Jong Il assumed the supreme commandership of the north Korean People’s Army on December 24, Juche 80 (1991). The supreme commander of the KPA is the highest military post in north Korea.

Two years later, on April 9, Juche 82 (1993), he was elected chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK.

Thus, he took over the highest military post of the country from President Kim Il Sung.

Then why was the most important cause of arms inheritance directly related to the destiny of the Juche revolution made on December 24?

One day in December of Juche 83 (1994) Kim Jong Il said to officials that the President seemed to have convened a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on December 24 after deep deliberation, adding that the day was the birthday of his mother Kim Jong Suk.

Kim Jong Suk’s birthday is of great significance in the Juche-based armed forces because she played a decisive role in the succession to the army building in the revolutionary cause of Juche. Above all, the anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk took arms in her teens to wage the anti-Japanese armed struggle. As she did in all fields of the struggle for founding the party and the state after the country’s liberation, she played an important role in building the regular armed forces.

What is the most important in her feats made in the army building is that she secured the arms inheritance by bringing up Kim Jong Il, son of anti-Japanese guerillas, to the successor who would reliably inherit the arms tradition of the Juche revolution.

December 24, therefore, is the day symbolic of her immortal revolutionary exploits and a meaningful day telling how the history of arms inheritance flows.