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Outstanding Military Genius

The Korean War in the 1950s was a showdown beyond common sense between the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the imperialist allied forces armed to the teeth and in fact, confrontation between rifle and A-bomb.
In the war, however, the victor was the young DPRK and the loser was the US imperialists who had boasted of being the "strongest" in the world.
The victory achieved by the Korean people in the war was that of the outstanding military idea, strategy and commanding art of the great leader Kim Il Sung and it was registered as a military miracle of the 20th century and an event noteworthy in the world history of wars.
Kim Il Sung created original strategies and tactics and war methods suited to the geographical conditions of the country, arms and equipment of the People's Army and characteristics of modern warfare, shattering the myth of mightiness of the US imperialists.
Researcher Kim Un Song at the Academy of Social Sciences said the operations of consecutive attack were of great importance in the counterattack strategy at the beginning of the war, and continued:
"It is the great leader Kim Il Sung who successfully solved the issue of operations of consecutive attack in our way, which had remained unexplored in the military field.
At the beginning of the war Kim Il Sung put forward an original military strategy on annihilating the enemy through swift manoeuvre and consecutive strike before commitment of large troops of the US imperialists and liberating the enemy-held areas and made sure that units of the People's Army immediately frustrated the enemy's invasion and went over to counterattack all at once on all fronts. This is of great significance in the counterattack strategy.
The operations of consecutive attack created by Kim Il Sung are characterized as those of new style of conducting all the big and small operations for attack on all fronts one after another without going through the period of operational preparations to expand successes in attack with high degree of manoeuvre and constant strike.
This was a new one unprecedented in the operations for attack recorded in the world history of wars; it was powerful operations that perfectly applied the demand for realizing the counterattack strategy."

Provoking the Korean War at that time, the US imperialists vaunted that they would occupy the DPRK in three days. By the immediate and decisive counterattack of the Korean People's Army, however, they were hustled out of Seoul, the stronghold of reactionaries, in three days after the start of the war and routed far to the south of the River Kum in less than half a month.
They set Taejon, a point of military importance, as "temporary capital" and attempted to check counterattack by combined units of the People's Army finally by using physiographical conditions of the River Kum and the Sobaek range.
Just before crossing the River Kum, Kim Il Sung came out to the Front Command and said there were gaps in defence as the enemy failed to build a defensive position in the whole section of defence along the river and concentrated their troops only on some points favourable for crossing. And he taught the orientation and ways to cross the river by using such weak point of the enemy.
He saw that the river-crossing front was extended and dummy crossing was made with some forces to disperse the attention of the enemy and cross the river at a brush. According to his operational policy, the People's Army units crossed the river and the "line of no retreat" vociferated by the US imperialists was broken only in two days.
Kim Il Sung advanced an operational and tactical policy on thoroughly encircling and annihilating the enemy so that they could not attack again and victoriously led the operation to liberate Taejon with bypassing tactics and combined operation of large and small units which were suited to our actual conditions.

He used active and superb tactics and war methods such as the formation of the second front behind the enemy lines, large siege warfare by cooperation of the main front and the second front, mountain warfare, night warfare, encirclement and annihilation warfare, positive position warfare, sniper team movement, aircraft-hunting team movement, tank hunters' team movement, demolition team movement in the enemy rear, mobile battery movement and mobile anti-aircraft artillery company movement.
Thanks to his original strategy and tactics and war methods, a US heavy cruiser was buried at sea, air pirates boasting of their "upper hand in the air" crashed and the "summer offensive", "autumn offensive" and "new offensive" prepared by the US imperialists with much effort failed like leaves falling in the autumn wind.

After fireworks of war victory were set off in Korea, the American newspaper "New York Times" carried an article written by a Western military commentator, which said:
"Why did the Korean War fail? It was an irreparable mistake that merchants of Wall Street made light of Korea at the beginning. Are they weak? No. As the process of the war shows, they were the strong who fought by special strategy and tactics and ever-changing war methods though they were inferior in arms and equipment. US generals alone should have paid due attention to the point that General Kim Il Sung leading the army they faced was a man of guerrilla warfare with rich experience. ..."
At that time the theory that victory or defeat of war is decided by military and technological superiority was an established formula and law in the process of war.
But the Korean War denied it.

The Korean War convinced the world of the truth that the people led by a great leader are always triumphant and nothing can conquer such people.
Today, the Korean people are carrying forward the history of great war victory, the history of victory of Juche Korea, under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, another great man.