Politics

President Kim Il Sung was an iron-willed brilliant commander who smashed the myth of the mightiness of the US imperialists with original strategies and tactics suited to the actual conditions of the DPRK. 

When the US ignited a war against the country on June 25 1950, he saw to it that the units of the Korean People’s Army frustrated the enemy invasion on all fronts and, at the same time, switched over to an immediate counterattack.

He set it as the strategic key point of counterattack to launch a sudden, powerful strike at the areas along the Military Demarcation Line and Seoul, where the enemy’s main forces were concentrated and the firepower density was the highest, not at the weak spots of the enemy. 

Thanks to his bold planning of operations and military stratagem, Seoul was liberated three days after the start of the war and, according to the continuous offensive operation plan, the KPA units liberated more than 90 percent of the enemy-controlled areas and over 92 percent of the population in a little over a month. 

As the People’s Army advanced like a surging wave after liberating Seoul in the early days of the war, the enemy built a powerful defence line along the Kum River.

After identifying the weakness of the enemy defence line, the President ordered the combined units in the main attack direction to break the enemy’s defence by rapidly crossing the Kum. According to his operational policy, the KPA units crossed the river through a prompt combat action and destroyed the “line of no retreat” hyped up by the US in just two days.

He set forth the operational and tactical policy of not pushing the aggressor forces back but encircling and annihilating them to the last man so as to prevent them from reinvading the country. And he showed a practical example of modern siege warfare through the operation of liberating Taejon.

The operation, in which the outflanking tactics suited to the actual conditions of the country were proficiently applied and the encircled enemies were struck and destroyed in a flash by the combined actions of large and small units, was admired by world military experts.

During the great Fatherland Liberation War, a miracle unprecedented in the world history of naval war was wrought.

The President spotted the weak point of the boastful enemy and gave detailed instructions on such matters as making a sudden assault at enemy ships when they were anchored at the dock or coastal waters, the method of combat by torpedo boats and the close combat tactics.

As a result, the miracle of sinking the enemy’s heavy cruiser with torpedo boats was recorded in the history of the war.

The President always detected the enemy’s main attack direction at the right moments during the whole course of the war and adroitly organized and commanded the operations to smash it.

One day in the summer of 1951, when the situation at the front was getting tenser day by day, he guided an operations conference of the Supreme Headquarters. Correcting the opinion of some officials that the enemy could throw the main strike group into the western sector of the front with a relatively favourable route of advance, he affirmed that the main attack direction of the enemy would be the eastern sector of the front. Thanks to his foresighted wisdom, a proper advance measure was taken, and the enemy’s “summer offensive” was confirmed to be a failed one just before its start.

He also ensured that active and superb tactics, such as the formation of a second front behind enemy lines, grand encirclement by the cooperation between the main front and the second front, mountain warfare, night operations, snipers’ team movement, anti-aircraft and anti-tank team movements, separate heavy machine-gun team activity, enemy’s rear destruction team activity and mobile artillery company’s activity, were applied to bring earlier the victory in the war.

In the spring of 1953, when the US imperialists failed to even start their “new offensive”, they hatched a new plot behind the screen of the armistice talks.

Realizing that only when a decisive military strike was made in conformity with the prevailing situation could the DPRK frustrate the enemy’s plot and new provocation and bring earlier the decisive time of victory in the war, the President made sure that the KPA units on the front waged a powerful intensive strike.

The three rounds of powerful strikes conducted under his operational plan were an offensive operation which dealt a heavy death to the US imperialists and a military offensive that opened up a favourable phase for the armistice talks and led to the great victory.