Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) — Respected Comrade 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, Friday visited the Liberation Tower on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of national liberation.
Accompanying him were senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and leading officials of the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK.
The Korean People’s Army guard of honor lined up before the Liberation Tower.
The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were played.
A wreath in the name of Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid amid the playing of wreath-laying music.
Written on the ribbon of the wreath were the letters reading “We will not forget the feats of the martyrs of the Soviet Army”.
Comrade Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to the martyrs of the Soviet Army who bravely fought for the liberation war of our people for freedom and independence of the country.
He looked round the Liberation Tower with those officials.
Looking back with deep emotion on the militant feats of the officers and men of the Red Army who dedicated their hot blood to the sacred cause of Korea’s liberation, he said that even after the lapse of time and even though one generation may be replaced by another, the DPRK people will always remember the noble soul the martyrs put into this land and the heroic, self-sacrificing spirit displayed by them.
The excellent history, traditions and ties of blood between the DPRK and Russia now serve as a fundamental cornerstone and inexhaustible driving force for the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation, he said, stating that the great friendship and unity between the two peoples forged with the noble idea and genuine militant friendship would be steadily carried forward and developed generation after generation along with the new era of comprehensive efflorescence. -0-
