The heroic spirit of the generation of war victors, full of ardent love and self-sacrificing devotion, is a powerful ideological weapon that inspires our people with conviction and courage and injects vitality in their struggle, the editorial notes, and goes on:

The proud generation of war victors created a new history of succession in the Korean revolution and developed the revolutionary spirit of Paektu into the all-people ideological spirit.

The belief in the greatness of the leader and the faith in sure victory, the matchless self-sacrificing spirit and indomitable will of laying down one's life without hesitation to defend the fatherland and dedicating oneself to the rehabilitation and construction, and the collectivist spirit of building a new life of socialism by helping and relying on each other even in difficulties -- these are the noble mental world of the great revolutionary generation in the 1950s.

They fully demonstrated the fighting spirit of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners as the spirit of heroic Korea and consolidated it into the spirit peculiar to the Korean people. Herein lies the immortal feats performed by the generation of war victors before the country and the revolution.

The heroic fighting spirit displayed by the victors of great years is the endless source of proud miracles and feats and its vitality and traction are limitless.

The editorial stresses that the revolutionary gains obtained by the forerunners in their bloody struggle remain firm and the future of our state and socialist cause is bright as long as there are the heroic spirit of the generation of war victors and the people creditably inheriting this great spirit.