editorial

It has been 72 years since the day of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (July 27 1953) when fireworks exploded to celebrate the great victory in the war.

The Fatherland Liberation War was a war for national defence the DPRK army and people, who rallied closely around President Kim Il Sung, fought against the invasion by the US-led imperialist aggressors to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country.

Under the wise leadership of the President, the DPRK people and the brave warriors of the Korean People’s Army firmly defended the territory, name, flag and rosy future of the country in the fierce three-year war against the US-led imperialist allied forces.

The war fighters in the great years, the victorious wartime generation who honourably defended the country, were the ordinary people of liberated Korea.

They experienced the dramatic turn in their destiny as masters of the factories, land and country under the care of the President who had liberated the country after fighting the protracted and bloody anti-Japanese war.

The period when they enjoyed real happiness was only five years, but they were the continuation of days and months when they realized the precious truth that others cannot know for 50 or 500 years.

The brave fighters of the war, who were well aware that the country is more precious than their lives and it is the embrace of the President, took arms in their hands and defended the country at the cost of their lives as they could neither allow the repetition of the past slavery when they shed tears of blood nor lose the benevolent embrace that brought them dream-like happiness.

The workers in Kunja-ri cut gun barrels and assembled hand grenades, chewing boiled maize grains from one pocket and salt from the other as they did not want to waste time having meals, and the peasants vigorously waged the wartime increased food production drive even in the face of the heavy bombings by the enemy warplanes, saying it was the struggle for the country and victory at the front, during the war.

Our victorious wartime generation are the admirable sons and daughters of the country, who wrote in history what is more precious than our lives and how hard we should fight to defend it with the most self-sacrificing and heroic practice.

Therefore, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un highly praised the victorious wartime generation as the benefactors who defended the country at the cost of blood, admirable heroes of the nation who devotedly defended the Party and the revolution, the country and the people, by laying down their youth and lives and genuine patriots.

The noble image of him, who saw that the day of war victory was significantly celebrated every year and bowed low to the victors of the great years at the events to celebrate the war victory, is deeply engraved upon the hearts of the people across the country.

Kim Jong Un was the only leader who put forward the victorious wartime generation as the laudable generation who laid the cornerstone for carrying forward the revolutionary traditions, the great teachers who implanted the noble spirit and soul in the younger generation, excellent revolutionaries and patriots who devoted their all to the younger generations and the incomparable treasures of the Korean revolution.

Under his leadership, the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum was rebuilt imposingly as a glorious palace of victory, which tells the heroic feats of the victorious wartime generation and the noble spirit of national defence, the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery, whose owner is the Workers' Party of Korea, was built at an excellent place with beautiful scenery in Pyongyang, and the cemeteries of fallen soldiers of the Korean People's Army were newly erected in different parts of the country, engraving the feats of heroic soldiers as a gold star.

Today the heroic spirit of the victorious wartime generation serves as the precious soul inspiring the younger generation to perform heroic feats for the country and revolution and it has become a trait prevailing in the whole society to give prominence to the war veterans, treat them preferentially and look after them with sincerity so that they would feel no inconvenience in their lives.

Kim Jong Un visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery together with war veterans to mark the 71st anniversary of the great victory in the war last year. He said that today socialist Korea can demonstrate its glory as the most dignified and independent and invincible power thanks to the immortal July 27, the day of victory the great victorious wartime generation had achieved for the times and history by devoting their all, adding that Korean-style socialism will always emerge victorious when the transparent spirit of defending the country and the revolution of the victorious wartime generation is invariably carried forward as the invincible might peculiar to our state and people.

As the DPRK is led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the lives of the great victorious wartime generation will shine and its July 27 will be everlasting as the day of victory.