The brave soldiers who participated in the overseas military operations created the tales about great heroes unprecedented in history out of their desire for the immortality of the sacred national flag of the DPRK and the rosy future of the prosperous motherland and emerged as heroes of the legendary feats who devoted their precious lives without regret, regarding their death as honour in the course of carrying out the orders of the country. The Workers’ Party of Korea adds lustre to their feats with gold star medals and brings all the glory of the times to them. Thanks to its noble moral obligation, their souls are brilliantly shining as the eternal stars of the motherland.

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, met the bereaved families of martyrs who performed distinguished feats in the overseas military operations at the Mokran House and sincerely consoled them on August 29.

Present there were senior officials of the WPK Central Committee, leading commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and senior officials of revolutionary schools.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a consolatory speech before the bereaved families full of great emotion.

He expressed deep condolences to all the bereaved families with his grief at having failed to save the precious lives of the officers and men who fell in the battlegrounds on a foreign land in order to defend the dignity and honour of the country, and with his sorrow at failing to bring them alive back to the country.

Being told about the exploits our heroes performed by charging forward death-defyingly to implement the orders of their country, we thought of the faces of the upright parents who had instilled love for their country and native places into their pure hearts and brought them up to be stalwart men, and we could clearly see in our mind’s eye the considerate persons who had supported them and given strength and courage to them during their faithful service in the army, he said, and went on: Ours is a heroic army that knows neither submission nor impossibility, and it surely emerges victorious in battle. This is because it is made up of the sons whose lives were given by the most tenacious, patriotic and just people in the world, the great heroic people who have shared their destiny with this country through an unyielding life and struggle generation after generation.

Though they passed away so young with a high ambition in their minds, the indomitable mettle and revolutionary spirit of the martyrs, who wrote a new chapter of victory in the history of our state at the cost of their blood and kindled the fierce flames of all-people heroism across the country, will remain etched in the minds of all our people.

He paid high tribute once again to the bereaved families who regard the noble lives and final determinations of their children and husbands as admirable and honourable ones and support them, firmly mastering the sorrow at having lost their beloved people.

All the bereaved families burst out sobbing at the ardent sincerity of the fatherly leader who is glorifying the immortal feats and noble lives of the martyrs for all ages and creating legends of love and trust unprecedented in history.