Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong, together with members of the central leadership body of the WPK, in the afternoon of July 26 on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the cemetery.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un laid a flower on behalf of the Party and the government at the wreath-laying stand of the cemetery. And he, together with all the participants, paid a silent tribute to the memory of the revolutionary martyrs who devoted their precious lives to the sacred cause of defending the independence and sovereignty of the country.

There took place a march-past of the KPA guard of honor.

Kim Jong Un , together with the participants, looked round the cemetery.

Recalling the noble life of the first generation of the revolution who performed great historic feats to go down in history by defeating the two formidable imperialist foes in one generation, with absolute loyalty to the ideology and leadership of President Kim Il Sung , he placed flowers at the busts of O Jin U, Kim Il, Choe Chun Guk, Kang Gon, Kim Chaek, An Kil, Ryu Kyong Su and Choe Hyon.

He said that the fighters are still now kept in the minds of the descendants as the strong mainstay since they proved in the long and bloody anti-Japanese war and the Fatherland Liberation War flames it as the eternal truth that the great strength of single-hearted unity between the leader and the people and the indomitable spiritual power of the army and people who keep the validity of their cause as their faith can bring about miracles unprecedented in the world.

It is the greatest exploit of those martyrs for the country and the revolution that they developed the tradition of the victorious anti-Japanese war into the tradition of victory in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle and the tradition of eternal victory of Korea and remarkably amplified the revolutionary spirit of Paektu into the ideological spirit of all the people, he said, adding that July 27 would shine forever as the symbol of immortality of socialist Korea and the synonym of invincibility when all the generations firmly carry forward the spirit of Mt Paektu and form an integrated whole with one life and soul.

He paid a high tribute to the martyrs, praying for immortality at the height of honor of the soul and spirit of the martyrs who provided the precious ideological and spiritual heritage for our great state and people and created the immortal revolutionary traditions. -0-

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