Present there were senior party, state and army officials including Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae and Hyon Yong Chol, officials of party, military, power bodies, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, delegates of war veterans, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials in the fields of science, education, literature and arts, public health and media, meritorious persons, working people in Pyongyang, the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front and overseas Koreans.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and director of the KPA General Political Bureau, made a report.

The reporter said that July 27 is the day of the second liberation of the country when the army and people of the DPRK beat back the U.S. imperialist aggressors which boasted of being the "strongest" in the world and brought about the shining victory.

The Fatherland Liberation War was a just war for defending the freedom and sovereignty of the country, and the fiercest war unprecedented in world history of wars, he said, and continued:

The U.S. imperialists plunged into the war its huge aggression forces as well as forces of its 16 satellite countries and the south Korean puppet army, more than two million in all, and employed the most atrocious war methods and means.

But they could not bring to knees the army and people of the DPRK as they were led by Kim Il Sung, ever-victorious and iron-willed commander and gifted strategist.

The DPRK could defeat the formidable U.S. imperialists and their followers in the war because it had the Juche-oriented military ideas and outstanding strategy and tactics of Kim Il Sung and the indomitable fighting spirit of the army and people who upheld his leadership.

During the war, fraternal Chinese people and other world peace-loving people rendered active support and encouragement to the Koreans in their just sacred war.

Admirable sons and daughters of the Chinese people volunteered to the Korean front under the banner of resisting America and aiding Korea, safeguarding the home and defending the motherland. They shared weal and woe in the same trench with the army and people of the DPRK, thus setting a noble example of internationalism in the struggle against common enemy.

We always remember this.

After the war the acute stand-off with the imperialists went on,

Leader Kim Jong Il pursued the Songun politics in an over-all way and wisely led the nuclear stand-off with the U.S. and defended socialism, thus ushering in the era of fresh victory in the confrontation with the imperialists and the U.S.

The military parade that was held this year to celebrate the Day of the Sun on the initiative of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il was a grand festival of victors that showed the military and technological superiority is no longer monopoly of the imperialists and gone never to return are the days when the U.S. threatened and blackmailed the DPRK with nuclear weapons.

Calling Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un's leadership a lifeline of the People's Army and banner of all victories, the reporter continued:

From his early years the dear respected Kim Jong Un was together with Kim Jong Il in his long journey of Songun leadership and made remarkable contributions to strengthening the KPA into reliable scout forces and core forces supporting the Songun revolution, and demonstrating the country's might as a world-level military power.

The army and people of the DPRK are fully demonstrating the fighting spirit of annihilating enemies with fixed conviction that victories will be in store for them as long as they advance under the leadership of Kim Jong Un who is possessed of offensive temperament of Mt. Paektu, outstanding commanding arts and iron luck and will.

Nearly six decades have passed since fireworks were displayed to celebrate the victory in the war but peace has not yet settled on this land and the situation still remains tense.

The U.S. imperialists remain unchanged in their aggression nature to stifle the DPRK by force and occupy the whole of the Korean Peninsula.

The army and people of the DPRK do not want war but are never afraid of it.

The U.S. and its followers are gravely mistaken if they think they can survive and their bases will be safe while working out scenario for war.

If the U.S. imperialists ignite a new war on this land, the party will believe in the people and the people in the party and they will wage an all-people war to make the enemies sign the document of surrender, not armistice agreement and thus achieve the nation's cherished desire for reunification.