OVER A million North Koreans have volunteered to join the Korean People’s Army (KPA) amid the mounting anger and indignation against the United States and South Korea over the two nation’s joint military exercises.
According to the North Korean state media KCNA, more than 1.4 million young people across the country volunteered to join the KPA.
It also branded the U.S. as an imperialist state and South Korea as an American puppet and traitors “hell-bent on reckless manoeuvers to unleash a nuclear war against the DPRK, the number of young people who volunteer to turn out in the sacred struggle for defending the country is increasing day by day.”
DPRK refers to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea also known as North Korea.
“They signed the petitions to join and rejoin the KPA with the pledge of heroic youth to deal merciless crushing blows of punishment to the enemies bringing dark clouds of a nuclear war while crying about occupation of Pyongyang and achieve victory in the great war for national reunification before others,” the state media said.
It said over 950 000 workers from the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex, the Pyongyang General Electric Cable Factory 326, Oguk Farm in Anak County and other industrial establishments and farms, and over 180 000 in North Phyongan province volunteered to join and rejoin the KPA.
“Not only university students but those of senior middle schools across the country expressed their will to join the struggle to defeat the aggressors, holding rifles in their hands as the children’s vanguard members did during the Fatherland Liberation War,” KCNA said. (Mindanao Examiner)
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