“Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!”

—  Kim Jong-il

Military review on the 60th anniversary of the KPA (25 April 1992), the only occasion of Kim's voice being broadcast in the DPRK http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1816145,00.html

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