July 27 is the anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953).

In retrospect, for the Korean people who had just been liberated from military occupation by the Japanese imperialists and for the nascent DPRK, the Fatherland Liberation War to beat off the aggressors was indeed an arduous war and a do-or-die battle on which the destiny of the country hinged.

The enemies mobilized over two million-strong forces armed with modern weaponry and latest military technologies to invade the DPRK.

Premier Kim Il Sung put forward the slogan “Everything for victory in the war!” and roused the people and the army to a decisive battle against the enemies. And he led the war to victory by dint of original strategies and tactics in each period and stage of it.

As the enemies launched a surprise invasion, he issued an order to go over to a counterattack across the entire front and saw to it that the Cabinet adopted a decision on reorganizing all work on a war footing and, at the same time, organized the Military Commission as the supreme state leadership body and set up the wartime mobilization system.

Through the whole period of the Fatherland Liberation War, he believed that the decisive factor in winning the war lay in the spiritual and moral superiority of the army and people and strengthened the Party, army and people’s government and armed soldiers and people politically and ideologically, while creating unique soldier-oriented war theory and methods.

Thanks to the strategies and tactics worked out by the President, including continuous strike and annihilation through encirclement, creation of a second front with regular forces behind enemy lines, positive positional defence and movement of aircraft- and tank-hunting teams and sniper teams, the enemy’s desperate offensives all ended in failure and notorious “invincible” divisions were destroyed.

As the Korean people enjoyed a genuine life for the first time as masters of land and factories in the motherland liberated by the President, the Korean People’s Army soldiers blocked enemy pillboxes with their bodies to open up the routes for advance, shouting “For the Party and the leader!” and defended every inch of the motherland as human bombs.

Innumerable stories about their heroic feats produced during the war, such as just four KPA torpedo boats sinking the enemy’s heavy cruiser, propeller planes shooting down enemy jets and a coast battery confronting 50 000-strong enemy forces, demonstrated that the spiritual strength of the KPA and people who formed a harmonious whole with their Supreme Commander and fought through fire and water was the infinite strength that brought about victory.

Firmly believing in victory, the people in the rear also fought bravely to defend their native places and struggled hard to ensure wartime production and assist soldiers on the front.

The DPRK won victory in the three-year-long Fatherland Liberation War and defended with honour the freedom and independence of the country, sovereignty of the nation and gains of the revolution and clearly demonstrated to the world that nothing can defeat the army and people that uphold a great leader and fight for a great ideology and ideal.

The Korean people add eternal lustre to the great history of victorious war through generations and decades and advance vigorously toward the victory of a powerful socialist country building under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.