North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said “soldiers, weapons and ideology’’ are the three essential elements of the armed forces, state media reported on Tuesday.
During a visit to a military and political University, Kim highlighted the “ideology-first’’ principle and that “arms without ideology are little short of ironware,’’ the state-controlled KCNA news agency said.
The Korean People’s Army which defended the most just cause, the most just state and the most just people, should surely become the strongest army in the world, Kim added.
Kim regarded soldiers, weapons and ideology as three elements of the armed forces, stating that “imbuing the army with ideology before arming it with military technology is the core of army building,’’ KCNA said.
Kim gave the speech at the Kim Il Sung University of Politics in Pyongyang, named after North Korea’s founder and Kim’s grandfather.
North Korea is one of the world’s most authoritarian states and has been run by the three generations of Kims since it was founded in 1948. (dpa/NAN)
