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On Another Visit to Persimmon-Tree Company

 2025.4.21.

August 25, 1960 is the day of epochal significance when Chairman Kim Jong Il started his leadership of the Juche-based revolutionary armed forces.

Speaking of his immortal exploits he performed for building up the Juche-based revolutionary armed forces, we recollect with deep emotion the great efforts of Chairman Kim Jong Il who attached great importance to the role of the soldiers in the development of the revolutionary armed forces, in particular their ideological consciousness, and devoted his heart and soul to training the KPA(the Korean People's Army) into an army strong in ideology and faith.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"The invincible might of a revolutionary army is its political and ideological might. The might of a revolutionary army cannot be discussed separated from its ideology. If it wavers ideologically, its arms waver, and this inevitably leads to the frustration of the revolution."

With a deep insight into the role of the political instructors who are directly responsible for the ideological and political education to the soldiers in enhancing the political and ideological might of the people's army, he led them to fulfill their responsibilities.

Here is a story about it.

One day in February 2000, Chairman Kim Jong Il visited again the persimmon-tree company in which he made a promise during his field inspection several years ago.

After warmly receiving the greeting of the political instructor of the company who was reporting to him, he was very pleased to find out that she was the soldier whom he had met when he visited the company a few years ago.

Looking at her who had grown up to be an officer as a political instructor of the company, he warmly said that we should value and give prominence to such women.

He added that what is important is to intensify political and ideological education so that the revolutionary idea of WPK(the Workers' Party of Korea) are fully integrated into the company.

His teachings on that day were precious guidelines for all the political instructors of the whole army.

Today all the political officials of the KPA are devoting their all to training all the service personnel to be genuine soldiers who cherish the revolutionary idea of the leader, playing the drum of revolution in the van of the service personnel, bearing in mind the teachings of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

As in the past, so in the future, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK demonstrating its might by dint of ideology will shine as the only politically and ideologically strong army in the world.