{"id":48761,"date":"2021-06-22T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48761"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T05:48:05","slug":"north-korea-planning-largest-military-parade-to-date-kim-il-sung-birthday-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-planning-largest-military-parade-to-date-kim-il-sung-birthday-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea is planning its largest military parade to date for Kim Il Sung&#8217;s birthday next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Daily NK source recently reported that North Korea has begun preparations for its largest military parade ever to mark the 110th birthday of former leader Kim Il Sung on Apr. 15, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In North Korea, Kim\u2019s birthday is a holiday called the \u201cDay of the Sun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source, who is inside North Korea\u2019s military, told Daily NK yesterday that the General Staff Department of the Korean People&#8217;s Army issued an order on Jun. 18 to the \u201coperational training departments of each service and every military academy\u201d laying out plans for recruiting and training soldiers to participate in a \u201ccommemorative military parade to mark the 110th Day of the Sun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The General Staff Department said it plans to have around 38,000 personnel participate in the parade. This is 15,000 more than the roughly 23,000 military personnel who took part in the parade to mark last year\u2019s 75th Party Foundation Day (Oct. 10), the country\u2019s largest military parade to date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As to why so many personnel will participate in the parade, the General Staff Department said it was to \u201chold up high the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung \u2014 the founder of socialist Korea and the Sun of the Nation \u2014 in the hearts of the entire nation, and to commemorate his birthday in grand style, wishing him eternal life.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The General Staff Department also stressed that personnel must exercise \u201cthe greatest loyalty\u201d during the training period for the parade, calling next year\u2019s Day of the Sun \u201cyet another historic memorial day when we can show the entire world the accomplishments of the Supreme Leader,\u201d who self-reliantly \u201cbuilt a strong and prosperous motherland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46787\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\u110b\u1167\u11af\u1107\u1167\u11bc\u1109\u1175\u11a8_6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\u110b\u1167\u11af\u1107\u1167\u11bc\u1109\u1175\u11a8_6-1.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\u110b\u1167\u11af\u1107\u1167\u11bc\u1109\u1175\u11a8_6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\u110b\u1167\u11af\u1107\u1167\u11bc\u1109\u1175\u11a8_6-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\u110b\u1167\u11af\u1107\u1167\u11bc\u1109\u1175\u11a8_6-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soldiers marching during the Party Foundation Day military parade on Oct. 10, 2020. \/ Image: KCNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, the General Staff Department\u2019s order revealed that North Korean authorities intend to highlight the justifications for strengthening the country\u2019s \u201cself-reliant\u201d military strength, something Kim Il Sung promoted, as well as use the parade as an opportunity to bolster internal unity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the order, all branches of the military, military commands, and military academies have begun selecting personnel to take part in training for the parade. Those selected for the training will likely be soldiers with experience in past military parades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Jul. 1, soldiers selected for the training will gather at corps and headquarter command posts to begin training. The General Staff Department warned that the preparations for the military parade must not impact the military\u2019s summer exercises (stretching from Jul. 1 to Sept. 30).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What this means is that soldiers participating in the training must still attend \u201cpolitical lessons\u201d in the morning. The emphasis on participation in these lessons follows the North Korean principle that \u201cpolitical ideological training continues uninterrupted, regardless of the circumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem, however, is that many of the soldiers with parade experience were reportedly discharged early in the spring. As a result, soldiers in some units are complaining that the authorities continue to take soldiers away for parade training during a time when \u201cmanpower is already short for combat and administrative duties.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea held a large-scale military parade last year for the 75th Party Foundation Day and during the Eighth Party Congress earlier this year despite emergency measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%e5%85%a8%e8%bb%8d-3%eb%a7%8c-8%ec%b2%9c%ec%97%ac-%eb%aa%85-%ec%b0%b8%ea%b0%80-%ea%b3%84%ed%9a%8d-%e5%8c%97-%ed%83%9c%ec%96%91%ec%a0%88-110%ec%a3%bc%eb%85%84-%ec%b5%9c%eb%8c%802021-06-21\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Daily NK source recently reported that North Korea has begun preparations for its largest military parade ever to mark the 110th birthday of former leader Kim Il Sung on Apr. 15, 2022. 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