Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung developed the plan to found the Juche-oriented civilian defence forces on the basis of the valuable experience gained in building the civilian armed forces during the anti-Japanese armed struggle and immediately after the liberation of the country.

One day in January 1959, the President visited Wonhwa village in Phyongwon County and talked with union members to learn in detail about the size and organization of the self-defence force of Wonhwa-ri, its emergency mobilization order and training.

He clarified the plan to build the people's self-defence forces into a stronger armed organization and learned about the intention of the union members.

He confirmed that the conditions for forming a civilian military organization of a new type were ripe from the people expressing absolute support for the intention of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The simple voice of the people helped the President further cement the far-reaching plan for putting all the people under arms. He called an official by phone and finally confirmed the name of the new civilian armed forces.

Saying that it would be better to call the forces the "red guards" rather than the "red self-defense forces", the President suggested calling it the "Worker-Peasant Red Guards" in the sense of an armed organization comprising all the people including workers and peasants.

After confirming the name of the new civilian armed forces as the "Worker-Peasant Red Guards", he founded the Worker-Peasant Red Guards (then), the Juche-oriented civilian armed forces brilliantly carrying forward the traditions of the anti-Japanese struggle, on January 14, 1959.

The founding of the Juche-oriented civilian defence forces was an event of historic significance in establishing the all-people and nationwide defence system with the People's Army as the core and bolstering up its might in every way. -0-