Military Miracles in Fatherland Liberation War

Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- During the Fatherland Liberation War, President Kim Il Sung advanced the original tunnel tactics, which can be called a model of unique defence warfare, so that the Korean People's Army repelled the U.S. imperialist aggressors superior in terms of their number and technology. It was a military miracle in history of wars.

The U.S. imperialists suffered an irretrievable military and political defeat one year after their provocation of the Korean war. Nevertheless, they did not abandon their ambition to occupy the DPRK and made desperate efforts to expand the war.

At that time the war dragged on and the warring parties were standing in confrontation with one another. To cope with the new military and political situation, the President put forward the original tunnel tactics to dig tunnels and take an initiative in fighting by using them as main defense positions.

The tactics were Juche-oriented one of our own style that made it possible to keep our armed forces to the maximum and hold the initiative in the war, driving back the enemy's attacks.

The advantages and vitality of the tactics were fully demonstrated in the whole period of the 4th stage of the Fatherland Liberation War (June 11, 1951-July 27, 1953).

In September 1951, the President personally came to the Height 1211 in the eastern part of the front and indicated the orientation and ways to smash the U.S. imperialists' "autumn offensive" and took measures to tunnel the defensive positions.

As a result, the tunnel-type positions were built on the main front, and, in particular, tunnels of various shapes and sizes were dug under the tactically important heights. And they were combined with field positions to form a solid system of positions.

In 1952 alone, the U.S. imperialists dropped 4 160 bombs, fired 527 260 shells and machine-gunned more than 1 810 bullets per one square kilometer on Height 1211 and the surrounding area.

The defenders of Height 1211 turned the enemy's indiscriminate bombing, shelling and "attack in waves" into a useless ones by relying on the solid tunnel-type defense positions. More than 29 000 enemy soldiers were killed or taken captive, at least 40 enemy planes shot down and over 60 enemy tanks and many other weapons and combat and technical equipment captured and destroyed.

Ridgway, the then war chief of the U.S. imperialists, screamed that the tunnel-type defence line of the People's Army would be the most powerful one known to the world. -0-