Politics

Hyon Chol Hae, marshal of the Korean People's Army and chief adviser to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK, was born a son of a revolutionary on August 13 1934.

After Korea’s liberation from Japanese military rule, he studied at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. He was later trained to be a competent military and political officer of the KPA under the care of President Kim Il Sung and devoted his whole life to the strengthening and development of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK.

During the fierce Fatherland Liberation War, he fought bravely to safeguard the Supreme Headquarters as a member of the bodyguard company of the central guards regiment.

Having been promoted to the rank of general in his thirties, Hyon Chol Hae performed distinguished feats in strengthening the KPA.

Later, he worked hard to improve the combat capability of the KPA in every way at the responsible posts in the fields of military education and logistics of the KPA.

He supported the leader with faith, conscience and obligation free from affectation throughout his life. He regarded it as his lifelong duty and the highest honour to know his intentions better than anyone else and carry them out perfectly in the van.

The DPRK people vividly remember him who assisted Chairman Kim Jong Il with the Songun revolutionary leadership closest at hand during the Arduous March and forced march, the hardest times of the country.

During the periods, he made a great contribution to strengthening the country's military muscle and defending the country, revolution and socialism by faithfully supporting the Songun revolutionary leadership of the Chairman.

The Chairman fully trusted his loyal and steadfast revolutionary traits, high political consciousness, unbounded enthusiasm for work, outstanding ability based on extensive knowledge and deep sense of responsibility and discussed the important matters of the revolution with him. He also felt unusually great confidence from his sincerity and self-sacrificing spirit.

The feats performed by Hyon, who fulfilled his sacred responsibility and role as a veteran of the revolution in establishing the system for the continuity of leadership of the Party, the lifeline and lifeblood of the Korean revolution, at the crucial historic turning point of the cause of Juche, adorned a brilliant page in the history of building the revolutionary armed forces.

He also performed an extraordinary feat in strengthening the KPA into a revolutionary army that supports only the idea and leadership of the leader with the conviction that the Korean revolution should be carried forward only by the lineage of Paektu and that it is only the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who can take charge of and shape the future of the Party, revolution, country and people.

Hyon Chol Hae was a paragon of loyalty who taught the rising generations with what attitude and standpoint the revolutionary soldiers have to support the leader and how to implement his ideas and intentions through the brilliant example of his whole life and a model revolutionary to be praised and copied by the posterity.

All his thoughts and activities were always directed to protecting the safety and health of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, defending his high leadership authority in every way and adding lustre to his greatness and immortal exploits on the highest level.

He was not only a passionate revolutionary fighter who had worked heart and soul to solve the problems intended and worried by the leader, shouldering heavy burdens willingly and devoting all his wisdom and energy, but also a true son of the country and people, who had conceived and realized many new things which could be helpful to the prosperity and development of the country and the living of the people and took on himself and successfully carried out any difficult tasks, and a perfect performer and patriot who completed any work, once started, by steadily pushing ahead with it.

Vividly etched in the great and sacred annals of the Korean revolution, from the glorious era when the DPRK people created a new history of socialist construction under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il to the present time when they add glory to the golden age of boosting the national power under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, are the immortal contributions made by Hyon Chol Hae who devotedly defended the leader and put his heart and soul into the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Through the proud spirit of the Juche-based revolutionary armed forces growing stronger day by day the DPRK people are recollecting with deep emotion the image of Hyon Chol Hae, a revolutionary soldier boundlessly loyal to President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.