On this day, people in the DPRK are recalling with deep emotion his patriotic life.

Kim Ung U took the lead in the struggle to sink the U.S. imperialist aggressors' warship General Sherman when it intruded into the River Taedong in Pyongyang in August 1866.

The aggressors aboard the ship sailed up to Yanggak Islet along the River Taedong, killing inhabitants at random with cannons and guns and despoiling of their properties. Their intrusion was aimed to rob an ancestral royal mausoleum and pave a way for aggression on Korea by force of arms.

Enraged at their outrageous atrocity, Kim Ung U aroused the inhabitants in and around Mangyongdae to the struggle against the aggressors.

Under his guidance, the people in the walled city of Pyongyang sank the warship through a fire attack, displaying the stamina and will of the Korean nation not to forgive any foreign aggressors.

Han Myong Sok, a Pyongyang citizen, told KCNA that the flames of anti-U.S. struggle kindled by Kim Ung U at that time are now flaring up on this land more vigorously.

If the U.S dares to make a preemptive attack on this land, we will certainly settle accounts with it by dint of the might of Songun (military-first), he said.