The whole country celebrating with splendour the significant national liberation day is filled with the boundless reverence for the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners who consolidated the cornerstone for the eternal prosperity of our powerful state by smashing the imperialist oppression in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu and accomplishing the cause of self-reliant independence.

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 on August 14 on the occasion of the 80 th anniversary of Korea’s liberation.

Present there were Pak Thae Song and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, and other senior Party and government officials, chief secretaries of provincial committees of the WPK, Party and administrative officials of commissions and ministries and commanding officers of armed forces organs.

The guard of honour of the Korean People’s Army lined up at the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played solemnly.

Amid the playing of the wreath-laying music, a wreath bearing the august name of Kim Jong Un was laid before the wreath-laying stand of the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong.

Also laid were wreaths in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

Kim Jong Un , together with all the participants, observed a moment’s silence in memory of the revolutionary martyrs who devoted their precious lives to the sacred cause for the liberation of the country, the protection of its sovereignty, the freedom of the people and the happiness of all generations to come.

There was a march-past of the guard of honour of the Korean People’s Army.

Kim Jong Un went round the revolutionary martyrs cemetery together with the participants.

He laid flowers before the busts of O Jin U, O Paek Ryong, Kim Il, Choe Chun Guk, Kang Kon, Kim Chaek, An Kil, Ryu Kyong Su, Choe Hyon and Rim Chun Chu, recollecting with reverence the immortal feats and worthwhile life of the first generation of the revolution who turned out in the anti-Japanese war and achieved independence at the cost of their blood with the transparent spirit and ardent patriotism.

He said that national liberation, the first precious gain of the sacred Korean revolution started with arms, was the victory of President Kim Il Sung ’s original idea of independence and sovereignty and sacred leadership practice covering 20 years and the victory of the heroic struggle of the pioneering generation of our revolution who waged death-defying resistance with the firm faith that Korea would be surely liberated thanks to Kim Il Sung .

The history of the anti-Japanese war is so sacred as every step of its bloody battles is associated with the world of revolutionary comradeship that can not be bartered for anything and the indomitable struggle to beat the enemy even though one may die a thousands deaths, he said, adding that the fighters who created the great spirit of Mt Paektu and the revolutionary traditions of Paektu to be handed down through generations are the genuine revolutionaries and the models of the true patriots to be remembered and learned from by all generations to come.

Confirming that the DPRK would prosper forever as the world’s most powerful country on the eternal foundation of victory and glory consolidated by the first generation of the revolution, Kim Jong Un sincerely wished the noble soul and spirit of the fighters immortality along with the red flag of the revolution.

Under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , the absolute strength and great dignity of our powerful socialist state, the DPRK people will glorify the history and tradition of sure victory generation after generation and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.