Solemnly recalling the revolutionary spirit of the defenders of the country in the 1950s who provided the immortal glory and reputation of heroic Korea and heroic people, senior state officials, commanding officers of the People's Army, working people and new generations including students of revolutionary schools and youth and students, together with war veterans, visit the cemetery with beautiful flowers in their hands.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery on Friday morning on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the cemetery.

Recollecting with deep emotion the immortal heroic spirit and costly self-sacrifice of the victorious wartime generation who devoted their youth and lives to the war for the greatest and sacred motherland, he laid a flower before the cemetery and paid a high tribute to the martyrs.

A gun salute was fired in memory of the Fatherland Liberation War martyrs.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the cemetery, together with war veterans.

He said that all the first defenders of the DPRK who brought about the miracle of July 27 were ardent revolutionaries with noble ideals, beautiful hope and ambition and genuine heroes and true patriots as they created a legendary history of resistance, admired by the whole world, with their warm blood and opened up a bright future of the Korean revolution.

Saying that the credit for today's socialist Korea demonstrating its glory as the most dignified and independent, invincible power goes to the immortal victory of July 27 the great wartime generation won for the times and history by devoting their all precious things, he stressed that Korean-style socialism would always emerge victorious when the victorious wartime generation's steadfast spirit of defending the country and the revolution is invariably carried forward as an irresistible might peculiar to our state and people.

It is the sacred mission and duty of our generation to reliably defend our ideology and social system, safeguarded by the victorious wartime generation at the cost of blood, and build a people's paradise where the happiness of posterity is guaranteed on this land associated with the noble soul of the forerunners, he said, expressing his fixed will to steadily write the history of the powerful Republic which will shine as the great journey of succession and prosperity.

Looking round the cemetery with humble reverence, the participants laid flowers at the martyrs' graves with their pledge to creditably inherit the noble soul and spirit of heroes who dashed for victory, shouting hurrah for the leader and the country at every battlefield of the fierce Fatherland Liberation War decisive of the destiny of the country, and provided a solid foundation of our Republic even in the upheavals of history.

The fireworks rocked heaven and earth of significant July, reflecting the noble respects to the victors of great years and the indomitable fighting will of the successors to carry forward the history of war victory of Juche Korea forever.

The heroic spirit of the victorious wartime generation will be given steady continuity for all ages and victory will shine long in the history as the eternal symbol of the DPRK under the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, the absolute strength and the ever-victorious banner of our powerful state.