He was accompanied by Army General Kim Su Gil, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, Army General Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, Army General No Kwang Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, and war veterans Yang Hyong Sop, Ri Myong Su and Thae Jong Su.

The Patriotic Song was played and amid the playing of the wreath-laying music, the wreath in the name of the Supreme Leader was placed.

The Supreme Leader observed a moment's silence in memory of the martyrs who laid down their precious lives for the sacred war for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people.

He said that the indomitable fighting spirit and the heroic feats of the Fatherland Liberation War martyrs who devotedly defended the Party, the revolution, the country and the people will shine long in the history of the country, expressing the conviction that all the service personnel of the KPA, party members and working people and the new generations would creditably carry forward the history and traditions of sure victory of powerful and dignified socialist Korea.