Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Sunday dedicates an article to the 64th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's start of the leadership of the revolutionary armed forces.

August 25, Juche 49 (1960) is a day of epochal significance to be specially recorded in the history of building the Juche-based revolutionary armed forces, the article says, and goes on:

Thanks to this day, the victory tradition of the heroic Korean People's Army, which took root in the battle areas of the anti-Japanese war, is being steadily carried forward century after century, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK could firmly preserve their character, true nature and noble name, and the world’s model could be set in defending the sovereignty by force of arms and in building socialism.

August 25 is of historic significance in ushering in a great heyday of building a powerful revolutionary army. It is also of great importance in telling us the immutable truth that the dignity and honor of the country shine forever and the great cause of building a powerful country can be achieved only when we are led by the great leader generation after generation.

The greatness of a leader is the mightiness of a country, and a country which is led by the outstanding leader is a genuine power.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un is the most prominent state leader of the present times recognized and admired by the world people. He is a peerless statesman who leads all state affairs to success by combining ideology and theory with power of execution and successfully guiding politics, military, economy, culture and all other fields. Herein lies his personality as a great man.

Thanks to the tireless thinking, outstanding leadership and legendary practical ability of the peerlessly great man for the prosperity of the country and the promotion of the people’s well-being, the period of the ordeals unprecedented in the history have been turned into the greatest heyday of bolstering up the national power and the DPRK could leap forward to another century, while stockpiling its powerful strength in every field.

The unquestioned prestige of Kim Jong Un is the prestige of the DPRK and the greatest pride of the DPRK people as he consolidated the national power as the strongest one with his greatest exploits unprecedented in the history of any great men in the world and put the dignity and prestige of powerful Korea on the highest level of the century. -0-