Among those present at the ceremony was an armless woman, who is Labor Hero Ri Ok Hui, a lecturer of the National House of Class Education.

She told KCNA:

At the time of the Korean War (1950-1953), my mother allowed me to go back to the village, judging that the Yankees would not attack me as I was seven.

I, too, begged for mercy when they took me.

But, the Yankees brutally killed my father and many other villagers and fired bullets on my wrists when I was crying for my father. And they cut off my bleeding hands and arms without mercy.

Since then I've felt revenge on the U.S. imperialist wolves. So I married an officer of a frontline unit after graduating a university under the benefits of the state.

When I became a mother of four children, I named them Kim Pok Su, Kim Ha, Kim Ri Ra and Kim Won Dae, meaning "We will take revenge upon the enemy through generations", and let all of them serve in the Korean People's Army.

I am now over 70, and I have been engaged in the work of anti-U.S. and class education for more than 50 years.

The U.S. imperialist brutes attempted to make me suffer torment more than dead for life, but I've lived on revenge upon the enemy.

I will never quit the stage of warfare for revenge as long as the enemies seek to invade our country again and until they are annihilated to the last one.