{"id":17975,"date":"2012-01-10T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:47:23","slug":"military-rallies-in-keumsusan-squa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/military-rallies-in-keumsusan-squa\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Rallies in Keumsusan Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chosun People\u2019s Armed Forces held a massive loyalty rally in the square in front of Keumsusan Memorial Palace for new leader Kim Jong Eun on the 9th, Chosun Central News Agency (KCNA) reported today.<\/p>\n<p>At the rally, Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Lee Young Ho (People\u2019s Army Chief of Staff) swore his own loyalty to Kim Jong Eun, stating, \u201cRaising high comrade Kim Jong Eun as the supreme commander, the fatherly Suryeong and the General are eternally with us and the history of the Juche revolutionary armed forces will continue on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He vowed, \u201cThe very best guards, we will pile up a thousand, ten thousand sorties with ten million sacks of guns and ten million bombs to circle the comrade supreme commander and defend him with our lives; life-or-death guards for Kim Jong Eun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will sharpen the edge of our revolutionary knife and if the enemy invades even 0.001mm of our motherland\u2019s skies, land or sea our entire army will roll out like thunder to exterminate all the enemies to the last man and continue the historical work of reunifying the motherland,\u201d he concluded, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to thousands of soldiers, the rally was also attended by Minister of the People\u2019s Armed Forces Kim Young Chun, First Vice-Director of the Army General Political Bureau Kim Jeong Gak, among others, as well as thousands of soldiers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chosun People\u2019s Armed Forces held a massive loyalty rally in the square in front of Keumsusan Memorial Palace for new leader Kim Jong Eun on the 9th, Chosun Central News Agency (KCNA) reported today. 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