Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) — The whole country is splendidly celebrating the great July 27 when the legendary tales about heroes of miracles were recorded in the course of the ever-victorious Korean revolution.
A ceremony of commemorative march of columns symbolic of units in the Fatherland Liberation War was held in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, on Saturday evening to mark the 71st anniversary of the great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, demonstrating the pride peculiar to our people, who are greeting the glorious holiday of victory of our state for centuries and generations, and the continuity of the tradition of victory.
The plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium where portraits of the first defenders of the Republic who saved the country and people at the cross roads of survival and ruin and defended peace will be passed as the ones of immortality was full of deep reverence for the victors of the great years.
Amid the playing of welcome music, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared on the platform of honor of the plaza together with war veterans.
The moment, the cheers of “Hurrah!” burst out by all the participants in celebrations, looking up to Kim Jong Un, the outstanding leader of our Party, state and people who is bringing about epochal miracles and changes while vigorously writing the ever-victorious heroic history with his great ideas and extraordinary leadership, echoed the sky of the capital city.
He waved back to the enthusiastically cheering participants.
War veterans who had worked for a long time in the Party, government and military were placed on the platform.
Senior Party and government officials, commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and commanders of the large combined units of the Korean People’s Army took the platform.
Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys and members of missions of foreign countries here.
Taking the auditorium were the participants in the celebrations of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, leading officials of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, service personnel, officials and persons of merits of ministries, national agencies and Pyongyang Municipality, students of revolutionary schools and university students.
The plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium and its vicinity were crowded with citizens who gathered to see the ceremony of commemorative march.
When the bugle call was sounded to herald the start of ceremony, the combined military band showed a ceremony with light melody, powerful rhythm and peculiar skill with excitement and joy full at the square of war victory 70-odd years ago.
The columns, symbolic of units in the period of the Fatherland Liberation War, began commemorative march courteously holding the respected image of President Kim Il Sung, the invincible and iron-willed brilliant commander who changed the “ever-victorious” tradition of the arrogant U.S. imperialists into the one of disgrace and defeat and put the proud national name and flag of the DPRK on the top of a powerful country by leading the newly built DPRK,
The column, symbolic of the bodyguard company, marched in the van holding wartime portraits of fervent loyalists including Hyon Chol Hae, Yon Hyong Muk, Pak Song Bong and Sim Chang Wan, who were the bullet-proof walls defending the Supreme Command during the hard-fought war, bearing the firm faith that all victories and glory lie in devotedly defending the leader,.
The first guards unit of our revolutionary armed forces, which made distinguished contributions to the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, and the columns, symbolic of legendary guards divisions, entered the square one after another, vigorously flying the flags associated with the immortal feats.
The column, symbolic of the Kang Kon Guards 2nd Infantry Division holding in the van the portraits of DPRK heroes produced by the unit including Kang Kon, former chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army, former Division Commander Choe Hyon and hero Ri Su Bok and heroine An Yong Ae, marched with pride of throwing the aggressors into the “trap valley” of ruin, demonstrating the matchless bravery in the battle for defending Height 1211.
In front of the columns, symbolic of the Seoul Guards 3rd Infantry Division and the Seoul Kim Chaek Guards 4th Infantry Division, which performed a miracle of liberating Seoul within 72 hours after the start of war and set a brilliant model in the modern siege campaign in the operation for liberating Taejon, were portraits of former Front Commander Kim Chaek and other brave generals of the anti-Japanese guerrillas.
The audience paid high tribute to the commanding officers of the first generation of the revolutionary armed forces, keenly realizing that 1 129 days of the Fatherland Liberation War could be recorded with brilliant military achievements as the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, who regarded the loyalty to the leader as their lifeblood and had never known an inch of concession in support of the strategic policies and operational intention of the Supreme Command, led the guards units.
The column, symbolic of the Guards 6th Infantry Division, which freely traveled to the front to perform feats with superb mobile warfare, and the column, symbolic of the Andong Choe Chun Guk Guards 12th Infantry Division, which was famous for the fierce tiger division in the eastern mountainous region, marched holding portraits of hero Han Kye Ryol, the pioneer of “My Height” movement, and other human-bomb heroes such as Kang Ho Yong and Jo Sun Ok.
The portraits of brave tankmen heroes, who rushed first into the streets of Seoul to fly the national flag of the DPRK at the enemy’s stronghold on the day of the fierce war and mercilessly crushed the U.S. imperialists’ “ever-victorious” divisions in Taejon, Taegu and Pusan can be seen in the column, symbolic of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division.
Kim Jong Un held his hand to encourage the columns, symbolic of the guards divisions, representing the first heroic generation of the DPRK and iron-willed guardsmen, who embodied boundless loyalty to the Party and the leader, mass heroism and matchless patriotic devotion.
The column, symbolic of the Second Torpedo Boat Squadron which created a miracle of Jumunjin remarkably recorded in the world’s history of naval battle and the column, symbolic of the Guards Hero Kim Ji Sang 56 Pursuit Aircraft Regiment which turned the “air superiority” of the U.S. imperialists into falling leaves, vigorously marched past the square filled with militant enthusiasm of the marchers and cheers of the spectators.
The spirit of devotedly implementing the order of the leader and making a breakthrough by dashing forward over a hundred ris in one night to intercept the enemy’s retreat and the self-blasting spirit of making a myth of victorious war and the mettle of do-or-die struggle in confrontation with the formidable enemy incomparable in forces, were reflected at the colours and the images of heroes of the Guards Ri Hun 18th Infantry Regiment, Guards 10th Infantry Regiment and Guards 14th Infantry Regiment.
The columns, carrying the brilliant military feats of the Guards 19th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment and Guards 23rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment for defending the sky of Pyongyang as firm as a rock to safeguard the security of the Supreme Headquarters at the cost of their lives passed through the square.
The columns, symbolic of the guards regiments, were followed by the columns, symbolic of the Ministry of the Interior, that performed distinguished feats in smashing the attempts of the enemies and disclosing and purging a large number of spies and saboteurs on the fronts behind the enemy line and the home front in fight, and the column symbolic of railway soldiers, who performed matchless feats in the transport of war supplies amidst the gunfire.
All the audience sent warm applause to the columns, further hardening their will to carry forward generation after generation the fighting spirit and indomitable soul of the heroic generation who created the history of great war victory.
Then the columns of the three services of the heroic Korean People’s Army, the defenders of the DPRK’s government, who defend the territory, waters and air of the country as firm as a rock entered the square in fine array, demonstrating the spirit of annihilating the enemy to successfully conclude the confrontation with the U.S. with the victory of the powerful DPRK and the mightiness, modernity and bravery of the revolutionary armed forces.
The matchless army column, the personifiers of the great victory that has been invariably carried forward generation after generation without weathering on the lapse of time, marched majestically, holding the colours of the Ministry of National Defence and the colours of large combined units.
The people’s navy and the human-bullet flying corps also made their appearance.
The marchers of the three services were in high spirits to surely accomplish the great cause of justice for which they have prepared generation after generation, holding fast to the ever-victorious treasured sword provided by the great Party Central Committee.
The square was filled with the pride of the people of having such an excellent army and the deep gratitude to the Party Central Committee that brought up such a powerful army, which adds to the greatness of our Party and state and defends the people’s happiness and rosy future in the fields of defending the sovereignty and the people and bringing gigantic creation for the eternal prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people, true to the sacred slogan inscribed on the honourable colours.
Kim Jong Un extended warm militant salute to the guardsmen of the new generation who devotedly defend the idea and cause of the DPRK at the vanguard of the revolution, fully loading their weapons with the noble soul of the victorious wartime generation.
All the marchers shouted “Hurrah!” for Kim Jong Un, peerless patriot and iron-willed brilliant commander, who put the dignity and mightiness of socialist Korea on the highest level in history, handing over the tradition of great July 27 victory and the heroic spirit to posterity.
At the end of the march, an air squadron of the KPA Air Force crossed the sky above the square in a fan-shaped formation, adding to the joy of the war victory day.
The cheers of excitement reverberated far and wide and fireworks were displayed in the nocturnal sky of July.
Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the enthusiastically cheering masses, holding high his hands.
The ceremony of the commemorative march marked a significant occasion that powerfully demonstrated the firm will of the service personnel and people to glorify the era of Kim Jong Un as an era of fresh victory, glory and prosperity, while continuing to write forever the 70-odd-year-long war-victory history of the great Juche Korea whose origin and succession are both great. -0-
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