It was President Kim Il Sung’s constant view that the essential factor of victory in a war is not weapons or military equipment but ideological mentality of man who handles them.
It is common that a country, though it has huge military potentials, falls into disorder and suffers from pains in case it is suddenly attacked.
However, the DPRK people, united firmly behind the President, switched over to immediate and decisive counteroffensive from the outset of the war and thus reversed the tide of war and gave successive blow to the enemy as they cherished a firm faith that they would win sure victory in the war and be well off as long as they were led by the President.
Earnestly wishing the President’s safety, the DPRK people fought the life-and-death battle in the front and the rear to defend the Supreme Headquarters.
The spirit of defending the leader unto death, spirit of defending the country and popular heroism fully displayed by the People’s Army soldiers including the courageous men on Height 1 211 and Wolmi Island, who fought to defend every inch of the country at the cost of their blood, and the people who ran belts with their hands to manufacture hand grenades and increased food production in wartime even under the enemy’s bombardment, served as a secret that enabled them to ac
