Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- All the people and service personnel of the DPRK are grandly celebrating July 27, the great war victory recorded in the history of the country with immortal gold letters. They are extending sincere respect and warm congratulations to the defenders of the country in the 1950s, the most heroic generation and indomitable models that brought about the eternal glory of a powerful DPRK.

The legendary feats the victorious wartime generation performed in saving the state, nation and future and honorably defended peace and security of mankind, and laying a solid foundation for building a rich country with strong army, true to the ideology and guidance of the leader, are shining for ever along with their noble name, and the matchless ideological and spiritual strength displayed by the brave fighters of the war serves as an inexhaustible force guaranteeing the steady victory of the cause of Juche.

A meeting with the victorious wartime generation took place in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, on July 27, the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War amid the growing mission of the successors to firmly carry forward the great spirit of defending the country and the tradition of victory.

The Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, a venue of the meeting, was filled with the pride of the victorious wartime generation that provided precious wealth to be handed down to posterity with ardent patriotism, loyalty and devotion and the ideological and spiritual heritage of the country and its people, and the warm respect of the younger generation for the revolutionary forerunners and the great pride of all the participants who become citizens of the victor nation.

The participants greeted with enthusiastic applause the war veterans and persons of wartime merits who were entering the venue of the meeting, wearing orders and medals shining with the proud feats of defeating the U.S. imperialists amid the playing of the light melody of the song "July 27, Our Victory Day".

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, was present at the meeting.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium and met with war veterans who had worked for a long time at important posts of the Party, government and military and exchanged warm greetings with them.

When Kim Jong Un appeared on the platform together with war veterans amid the playing of welcome music, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to Kim Jong Un , the great dignity and strength of our invincible Party and powerful state and the banner of all victories and glory.

Kim Jong Un and war veterans were presented with fragrant bouquets by children.

Waving back to the enthusiastic cheers, Kim Jong Un extended warm congratulations to war veterans and all the civilians and service personnel across the country on the holiday of victory.

Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and other senior officials of the Party, government and military were present there together with the participants in the celebrations of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, officials of the Party Central Committee, service personnel, officials and persons of merits of ministries, national agencies and Pyongyang Municipality, students of revolutionary schools, university students and schoolchildren.

Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys and missions of foreign countries here.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a speech.

Upon authorization of Kim Jong Un and the Party and the government, he warmly congratulated the war veterans, all the civilians and service personnel who greeted the V-Day with precious memories and great pride, and paid high tribute to the heroic soldiers and patriotic martyrs who fell in the sacred war for defending the country.

It is the pride of our state and people and fortune of the younger generation that we have a significant meeting with creators and personifiers of great history on the most precious holiday of the country, he said, adding that it is the honor of our generation to remember not only with pain but also with honor the dramatic era that changed the years of the most disastrous war into the greatest victory.

Thanks to the honor of war victory, our state has the peculiar remarkable strength that can be gained only by the victor nation and the Korean people have acquired valuable mental wealth which could not be obtained in ordinary days and which could not be realized by thousands of books, he said.

It is the proud tradition and characteristics of the Korean revolution to have created and defended the wartime spirit for more than 70 years, he said, adding that the defenders of the country in the 1950s who honorably safeguarded the glorious DPRK and provided the immortal heroic spirit are genuine patriots and models of ardent revolutionaries who would be praised and followed forever.

He said that today's grand festival is the peak of honor upheld together by the generation who won victory in the war and the successive generations who have bravely carried out the mission of the defenders while turning the decades which were no less arduous than war into the ones of legendary miracles and leap forward in defence of the victory.

The spirit of the victorious wartime generation is the immortal soul that makes us demonstrate our dignity as eternally powerful and great people, and we will win greater victories and more valuable victories by dynamically carrying it forward, he said, extending once again heartfelt thanks and best wishes to the war veterans who devoted their great soul to the ever-lasting history of victory and to the ever-victorious country.

The participants watched a video showing the feats and fighting spirit of the victorious wartime generation.

The war thrust on the newly-built DPRK, a genuine people's country in the eastern part of the earth, was the enforcement of the U.S. imperialists' strategy for world domination aimed at enslaving our country, Asia and, furthermore, the whole of mankind. The confrontation with the arrogant imperialist ringleader with more than 100 years of history of aggressive war was a fierce task for our country with less than two years after its foundation.

The scenes showed that the Korean War enforced by the U.S. imperialists was the war of unprecedented massacre during which innocent people, nearly one sixth of population of the then DPRK, were killed to outnumber the fallen soldiers and the great turmoil baffling human imagination in its brutality, cruelty and misery.

The shock of 70-odd years ago, when all the people turned out in the do-or-die resistance for the future of a powerful country whose history should be written only with victories cherishing the solemn mission to prove that the DPRK is no longer a weak country and its people are not frail and the unbreakable self-respect, was brought alive to the war veterans and persons of wartime merits.

Other scenes showed that the rifles, which were used to kill more enemies with its bayonets than those shot in battles where the differences in forces between the enemy and the DPRK could not be compared, were loaded with all the powers of miracles and indomitable spirit that brought about the great war victory.

The participants keenly realized what the soul and spirit of the victorious wartime generation had cherished, seeing the soldiers who carved on the rock a pledge of loyalty to the leader before the death-defying battle and the hand-to-hand fight, the human bombs who pressed the trigger of heavy machine-gun with a jaw after getting wound in arms and legs and who blocked the muzzle of the enemy's gun with their own breast when hand grenades fell short and the flags of the DPRK flying on the hills at the cost of blood and life of the ranks.

The historic scenes proved that the rear was also the front for the people who fought for victory in the war, with ardent love and bitter hatred, the day of victory came to an earlier date thanks to the all-people mass movement including the movement of volunteering for military service on the war front, the emulation movement for increased production in wartime, extra-traction movement, the plow-woman movement, high-yield movement and the campaign for donating relief grains to the front and the precious tradition has been prepared to be preserved and glorified forever.

All the participants once again realized that the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung who led the war with his outstanding military strategy idea and tactics and brought up ordinary people into the masters of the heroic era with his warm love and trust unprecedented in history and the unshakable faith of all the people and service personnel that they are sure to win as they are led by the President are the key to winning the war victory.

The scenes showing the might of the DPRK which defends its sovereignty, national interests and genuine peace with matchless self-defensive capability that can defeat any formidable enemy impressively showed that the history of winning the war victory were great, but the history of succession which has protected and steadily carried it forward is still more gigantic to all people who grew up in this powerful country free from the worries of war.

The bouquets presented by the posterity to the war veterans who devoted themselves to the victory only and to the great power associated with the desire of their comrades-in-arms were an expression of boundless reverence and ardent respect.

All the participants renewed their firm will to carry forward the glorious tradition of victory for ever, true to the idea and leadership of the great Party Central Committee which is cementing the military powerful force for the future of the revolution and the nation.

Army Col. Ri Un Ryong and Navy Lieutenant Commander Yu Kyong Song, officers of the Korean People's Army, made oath-taking speeches.

Recollecting the fateful moment that the victorious wartime generation faced and the fierce war days, the speakers said that the matchless bravery and feats of many heroic soldiers who brought about July 27, the day of war victory, made them more keenly aware of the important mission of the defenders safeguarding the defence line of the country.

They said that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have grown to be ones of extraordinary courage, strength and dignity, confident of victory, looking down at any formidable enemy, along with the revolutionary spirit and immortal feats of the victorious wartime generation who turned the fateful years which could have ended in tragedy into the most proud ones.

Out of surging hatred against the U.S. imperialists and the military gangsters of the puppet ROK hell-bent on provoking a nuclear war beyond the southern border of the DPRK even at this moment, they expressed their will to glorify with more miracles and victories the feats of the guards units which made the enemy fear of ruin and brought about brilliant results in the war and the myth of the world history of naval battle in which four torpedo boats sank a heavy cruiser of the U.S. navy.

The speakers solemnly pledged before Kim Jong Un and the Party and the state to become brave fighters of defending the sovereignty, territorial integrity and the territorial waters of the country, bearing in mind the lifetime intention and requests of the war veterans, and to bolster up the thoroughgoing capability to cope with war and fighting efficiency in every way so as to make an overwhelming attack on the enemy anytime and without delay and totally destroy them once the respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un gives an order.

When the meeting was over, the enthusiastic cheers resounded through the venue again.

Kim Jong Un wished for long life in good health of all the war veterans, who have lived with struggle and devotion for the prosperity of the beloved country and happiness of the descendants and recorded their wonderful life, and sent warm greetings to all the participants for a long time, hoping that all the participants would cherish the sacred dignity and honor of being citizens of the victor nation and firmly carry forward the soul of the victorious wartime generation.

All the participants were deeply moved to witness the noble world of the revolutionary obligation and comradely love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for the war veterans.

The meeting with the victorious wartime generation on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War marked a significant occasion of redoubling the unshakable faith, courage, enthusiasm and fighting spirit of all the civilians and service personnel of the DPRK to firmly carry forward the history and tradition of the sacred victory, glorify them for all ages and achieve without fail the great cause of building a rich country with strong army desired by the victorious wartime generation under the leadership of the great Party Central Committee. -0-

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