Boundless respects of all the people of the DPRK greeting the great V-Day are extended to the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery at the foot of Mt Sokpak where the dignified flags of our powerful state and the Workers’ Party of Korea embrace the heroic war martyrs in their immortal images.

Solemnly recalling the revolutionary spirit of the defenders of the country in the 1950s, who provided the immortal glory and honour of heroic Korea and its heroic people, senior state officials, commanding officers of the People’s Army, working people and new generations including students of revolutionary schools and youth and students, together with war veterans, visit the cemetery with beautiful flowers in their hands.

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 Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery on the morning of July 26 on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

The guard of honour of the Korean People’s Army lined up at the cemetery.

Recollecting with deep emotion the immortal heroic spirit and noble self-sacrifice of the victorious wartime generation, who devoted their youth and lives for their greatest and sacred motherland, he laid a flower before the cemetery and paid a high tribute to the martyrs.

A gun salute was fired in memory of the Fatherland Liberation War martyrs.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the cemetery, together with war veterans.

He said that all the first defenders of the DPRK who brought about the miracle of July 27 were ardent revolutionaries with noble ideals, beautiful hopes and ambitions and genuine heroes and true patriots as they wrote a legendary chapter of history of resistance, admired by the whole world, with their warm blood and opened up a bright future of the Korean revolution.

Saying that the credit for today’s socialist Korea demonstrating its glory as the most dignified and independent, invincible power goes to the immortal victory of July 27 the great wartime generation won for the times and history by devoting all their precious things, he stressed that Korean-style socialism will always win victory when the victorious wartime generation’s steadfast spirit of defending the country and the revolution is invariably carried forward by dint of the invincible might peculiar to our state and people.

It is the sacred mission and duty of our generation to firmly safeguard our ideology and social system, defended by the victorious wartime generation at the cost of blood, and build a people’s paradise, where the happiness of posterity is guaranteed, on this land associated with the noble soul of the forerunners, he said, expressing his full determination to continue to write the history of the powerful country, which will shine as a great journey for succession and prosperity.

Looking round the cemetery with humble reverence, the participants laid flowers at the martyrs’ graves with their pledge to creditably inherit the noble soul and spirit of the heroes, who advanced for victory shouting hurrah for the leader and the country at every battlefield of the fierce Fatherland Liberation War decisive of the destiny of the country, and provided a solid foundation of our Republic even in the upheavals of history.

Fireworks were set off on the meaningful July day as a reflection of the noble respect to the victors in the great years and the indomitable fighting will of the successors to carry forward the history of war victory of Juche Korea for ever.

The heroic spirit of the victorious wartime generation will be steadily carried forward for all ages and the victory will shine for ever in history as the eternal symbol of Korea under the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, the very incarnation of the absolute strength and the ever-victorious banner of our powerful state.

Political News Team