He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Ryom Chol Song, Kim Myong Sik, Pak Thae Su, Jo Nam Jin, Hwang Pyong So, Kim Tong Hwa, Hong Yong Chil and Ma Won Chun.

After receiving a report that commanding officers and sailors of submarine chaser No. 233 fell while performing their combat duties in mid-October last, he took a measure for finding out all their bodies and holding a solemn funeral for them.

He examined the layout of the cemetery several times and gave a detailed instruction on how to make grave stones and rails and what color of stone should be used. He also instructed officials to have pictures of the fallen fighters carved on their grave stones.

The above-said commanding officers and sailors thus came to enjoy immortality thanks to his profound loving care.

Kim Jong Un laid a flower before the cemetery and paid silent tribute to the memory of the fallen fighters.

Senior officials of the party and army who accompanied him placed flowers before the cemetery and observed a moment silence in honor of them.

He looked round the cemetery.

Watching stone pictures of the fallen fighters one by one, he said that he felt as if they had risen up to greet him.

Feasting his eyes on the cemetery built in a quiet and sunny place with blue sea ahead, he said that the cemetery is located in a very good place as it is near from where the unit is stationed.

He said that sailors of the unit have now become able to sail for performing their combat duties as requested by the fallen fighters after bidding farewell to them, adding that he felt much relieved after having a burial ceremony for them.

He noted that he could hardly go to sleep, when thinking they died at so young ages, though the defence of the country is accompanied by sacrifices.

He said that he felt heartbreaking when thinking of the fallen fighters who served in the navy, their hearts burning with the dream and hope to perform feats with great ambition and their parents grieved at their deaths and their wives who had waited for their return from voyage. He added what bitter sorrow they might feel as he felt so painful.

After watching the cemetery, he said that there should be the name of the owner of each grave, adding he would like to be that owner and asked officials to carve his name on the grave stones. I will feel relieved a bit only when my name is carved on them, he noted.

Saying that the martyrs are his comrades-in-arms and comrades, he stressed that although they died before realizing the lifetime desires of the great Generalissimos under the leadership of the supreme commander, they showed all service personnel how a soldier should carry out the order of the country through their heroic deaths.

The revolutionary spirit of the martyrs who readily dedicated their precious lives to defending the country's sea will always live on, he said.

He stressed that not only the sailors of the unit but all the service personnel of the KPA should learn from the exploits and noble spiritual world of the martyrs who firmly defended their posts till the last moments of their lives and carried out the combat order at the cost of their lives.