At this historic juncture brimming with confidence, when the dignity and honor of Juche Korea resonate at the highest level in its five-thousand-year history and a brilliant future of civilized prosperity unfolds, our people solemnly celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Homeland.

Unforgettable decades have passed since the emergence of a new nation and new people who engraved unprecedented struggles and remarkable transformations in history.

The 80th August 15 instills extraordinary pride as our people, once deprived of their country and wandering at the crossroads of life and death, now stand dignified before the world as masters of a great power through protracted and costly struggles and victories.

The 80th anniversary of the Homeland's liberation holds immense significance for the destiny and rejuvenation of our nation.

The sacred achievement of the Homeland's liberation, accomplished by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung who pioneered the arduous anti-Japanese struggle under the banner of Juche ideology, remains an eternal treasure enabling our people to firmly grasp their destiny and eternally safeguard and glorify all that is precious to the Homeland.

Having erected the most powerful and independent socialist paradise through 80 years of arduous struggle for founding and defending national sovereignty, and now unfolding a new era of comprehensive national development, this great occasion of August 15 multiplies our unique pride. Our people overflow with conviction and optimism that these 80 years of resounding victories and heroic creativity shall extend endlessly into ever mightier, more prosperous, and more brilliant epochs.

That our Homeland, once erased from the world map, now emerges as a powerful nation confidently redrawing global political geography through righteous strength, constitutes our people's exceptional pride at this watershed of 80-year history.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:

"From the moment he initiated the Korean revolution, the leader traversed the rugged peaks of Mt. Paektu for twenty years, leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory and achieving the historic feat of liberating the Homeland."

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, savior of our people's destiny and liberator of the Homeland, created a new history of nationwide resistance through unwavering self-reliance ideology and indomitable struggle.

For over 40 years before liberation, the Korean people suffered under Japanese imperialism's brutal policies of political disenfranchisement, economic exploitation, and cultural obliteration. Japan trampled upon our people's freedom, dignity, and livelihoods with medieval oppression unparalleled in world history. These predators sought not only our land but even our language, script, and names—the vilest stranglers, plunderers, and bandits.

History knows no patriot like the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, who at barely ten years old shouldered his people's tragic destiny, vowing never to return without Korea's independence as he crossed the Amnok River.

Beyond the grand ambition of liberation, the great leader's unshakeable faith in self-reliance—achieving this monumental task solely through our people's strength without external aid—stands as a strategic vision beyond any other statesman.

The journey from Mangyongdae to the Triumphal Arch spans a short distance, yet required twenty years of bloody struggle. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's sacred heroic chronicle shines through his declaration of total war against imperialist Japan and his march through infernos and blizzards. Defeating the self-proclaimed "Overlord of Asia" without state support or regular army remains a unique miracle in world revolutionary warfare.

The blood-soaked trails across Paektu's ridges and Amnok's bends eternally proclaim the patriotic exploits of the peerless legendary hero and indomitable revolutionary—the great leader who shared his people's sorrows and devoted his all to liberation.

The victory of the anti-Japanese revolution organized by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung ended colonial enslavement, opening a new chapter of independence and renaissance while transforming our people's destiny.

Former imperialist slaves became masters of their fate, building their state, creating their culture, and enjoying happiness through truth-forged strength. Liberation required arduous struggle, but defending sovereignty and building prosperity demanded greater fortitude.

These 80 years since cries of "Long Live Liberation!" echoed across the land shine as immortal annals wherein our Party and people overcame unprecedented challenges to victoriously continue founding and defending sovereignty.

Liberation promised a new life; founding provided its foundation. Only by laying this cornerstone can we become a true independent state serving its people.

The founding era holds special significance in our 80-year history. With extraordinary foresight and leadership, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung achieved historic feats of party, state, and army founding alongside democratic reforms shortly after liberation.

Thus emerged the great guiding force leading state and people unshaken through historical tempests. Former colonial sufferers became masters of land, factories, and nation—possessing genuine people's power and revolutionary armed forces to enjoy dignified lives and build prosperity through labor.

Thanks to the great leader's unique founding achievements, we won the war, established superior socialism at Chollima speed, and accomplished socialist industrialization in merely 14 years. Founding initiated the protracted struggle to defend sovereignty.

Sovereignty is the lifeblood and supreme dignity of nation and people. A state without sovereignty is no true state; land without power is not one's own.

The 20th century witnessed clashing forces: socialism vs. imperialism, independence vs. domination. Amidst this crucible, our Republic steadfastly guarded the anti-imperialist vanguard.

The 1950s war against U.S.-led imperialist aggression constituted our fiercest sovereignty defense, while the victorious July 27 stands recorded as a second liberation day. Though fighting ceased after three years, silent war persisted 70+ years. Enemy aggression never paused—their threats and provocations reaching unparalleled viciousness.

That our Republic safeguarded socialism, fortified strategic deterrence, and contributed to regional/global peace throughout 70+ years of anti-U.S. confrontation equals—nay, surpasses—the victory of the Fatherland Liberation War.

Maintaining absolute self-reliance in state affairs, resolving all issues our way according to our interests, crushing infringements with maximum force—under our Party's wise leadership, every sphere of the DPRK's sovereignty became inviolable.

At the life-or-death crossroads between independence and re-enslavement, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il not only defended our blood-won Homeland with red flag and rifle but solidified the foundations of an inviolable power. Having begun his sacred journey amid anti-Japanese gunfire alongside the great leader during founding and war, the great General's passionate love for country and people propelled his resolute march to guard socialism.

While nations floundered in historical storms toward collapse, our Republic stood firm as a fortress of independence and socialist bulwark—solely through the Korean Workers' Party's leadership under peerless command.

Great history shines brighter through great present. Our Homeland, warmly embraced by the great leader at a small East Sea pier upon liberation, has reached greatness after 80 years. Today's era radiates unprecedented dignity and might—the zenith of 5,000 years.

The great Comrade Kim Jong Un, who forged absolute power to elevate our Republic to strategic eminence, is the peerless patriot of the age. No people yearn for power like ours—who endured national ruin and century-long imperialist threats.

Declaring that strength determines victory in today's world, that only supremacy secures present and future, the great Comrade Kim Jong Un prioritized nuclear force completion as paramount in socialist power construction. The line of parallel economic/nuclear development, constitutional nuclear policy, and supreme weapons embodying our nation's advancement reflect the total devotion of a great patriot building an inviolable power.

Under the great Comrade Kim Jong Un's leadership, our Republic now influences global politico-military dynamics through absolute dignity and might. Elevating national prestige to its zenith and ensuring our people's eternal peace is his paramount achievement.

The Triumphal Arch reilluminates this stirring era. The great Comrade General Secretary's power-building exploits magnify the great leader's liberation feat and great General's defense legacy, making the Arch Korea's eternal monument—our supreme pride and glory this liberation anniversary.

The great Comrade Kim Jong Un is the outstanding leader unfolding grand designs for comprehensive national rejuvenation, opening an era of civilization and transformation with ever-rising people's welfare.

Our people—the world's finest—follow the Party unwaveringly through revolutionary trials. Bringing affluent new life to all in the era of comprehensive socialist development is the great Comrade Kim Jong Un's iron will.

His profound devotion to people's rights and livelihoods permeates every realm; his footprints of service mark every land. The new era transforming all societal spheres—where even the capital envies local prosperity—unfolds miraculously through his lofty view of the people and self-sacrificing spirit. Our revolutionary founders' blood-won Homeland becomes the people's ideal society.

The great Comrade Kim Jong Un bears sublime mission and responsibility for our nation's radiant future and eternal prosperity—a rare genius building present and future.

We celebrate this 80th anniversary with exceptional pride not only for our glorious past but for our brilliant tomorrow.

Designing and executing every project with the nation's future in mind, bearing tomorrow's burdens today to lay eternal foundations—from perpetuating the Korean Workers' Party's leadership to enhancing absolute power and self-reliant economy, building a sci-tech/educational power, to local rejuvenation—under his energetic guidance, our advance accelerates extraordinarily.

His sublime teaching: We have no right to hesitate before the ideal society, no right to turn away, no right to await conditions. His foresight ensures foundations for posterity—making our Republic's future clearer than ever.

Our 80-year chronicle of founding, sovereignty defense, and power-building shines through our people's pure loyalty and heroic struggle in upholding the great leader's ideology and leadership.

History engraves in gold how a people upheld their leader, overcame unheard-of hardships, defended their system, and achieved greatness.

Jade-like loyalty to the leader forms our people's spiritual core. United with the leader, knowing his greatness and grace, sharing his thought, will, and pace, lessening his burden with conscience and loyalty—such is our people. They devoted wisdom and strength to repay the great leader's post-liberation grace. During war, they marched unwaveringly shouting "Find Kim Il Sung to survive!"; in complex postwar times, they declared "We support only our leader!" Generations changed, circumstances differed—yet their loyalty never wavered. Through unprecedented Arduous March hardships, they clung closer to the great General, vowing "Starve rather than kneel to others."

Following the great Comrade Kim Jong Un through tear-soaked hills into the new revolutionary era, our people met unprecedented trials with unbreakable faith: "Die rather than abandon revolution!" When impossibility blocked advance, they roared: "With the Marshal's trust, we lift the earth!"—overcoming all obstacles, creating miracles. Such absolutely loyal people exist nowhere else.

Growing stronger through adversity, turning trials into progress, achieving miracles—this is our people's mettle. Amid unbearable hardships, they safeguard our cherished system with unshakable socialist faith, sacrificing blood, sweat, and lives. Steel-like Party support, rice defending revolution, knowledge illuminating power-building—through such staunch people, our Homeland endured, making 80 years the longest socialist victory chronicle.

Victory always belongs to the great Korean people. Continuing past glories, our people create miraculous victories and immortal feats in the new era's stern struggles.

Upholding our Party's new parallel line, defense scientists and munitions workers produce ultra-advanced Juche weapons enhancing our military might infinitely. Unprecedented construction prosperity unfolds; rural/local rejuvenation transforms reality. Crushing enemy suppression, heroic feats manifest Korean working-class spirit across self-reliant economy; socialist fields tame weather for bumper harvests.

Once lamenting "Why can't Koreans be strong?", our people now proudly proclaim globally: "We are strong! We are Koreans!" This dramatic reality is the Korean Workers' Party's supreme historical achievement.

Today, our people face the crucial task of gathering tighter around the great Comrade Kim Jong Un to eternally glorify our nation's dignity—revolution's sacred gain.

Our sacred history proves: Only by single-heartedly upholding the leader and following his sole path can national dignity and people's destiny be safeguarded, ensuring eternal prosperity.

All Party members and workers must thoroughly arm themselves with the great Comrade Kim Jong Un's revolutionary ideology and unconditionally uphold the Party Central Committee's monolithic leadership. Loyalty must be life's essence, not duty—becoming true adherents who absolutely trust and follow only the great Comrade Kim Jong Un in any circumstance. Execute his designs flawlessly, unconditionally, and perfectly to defend Party authority.

All people must unite solidly around the Korean Workers' Party Central Committee with patriotic devotion to vigorously propel comprehensive national rejuvenation.

Socialist patriotism—sublimed into nationwide ideological unity—is irresistible.

Inheriting founding patriots' spirit who responded to the leader's appeals with mass movements, we must inscribe our names honorably through devoted intelligence and labor toward prosperous-powerful nation goals. With hundredfold ambition and confidence that "With our land and resources, nothing is impossible!", fully display Korean wisdom and spirit. Strive more boldly, substantially, and intensely to successfully complete the five-year plan and elevate comprehensive national rejuvenation.

Emulate the noble spirit of anti-Japanese revolutionaries who achieved liberation's historic feat and created Korea's unique loyalty traditions. Set hearts upon the great Comrade Kim Jong Un's Paektu journey; live and struggle with Paektu spirit always. Let the revolutionary resolve that severed tongues to protect headquarters, the iron faith that saw revolutionary victory through blinded eyes, and the indomitable will to "smash the enemy though killed ten million times" eternally pulse in our hearts.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's liberation feat shall live eternally alongside the prosperous era of the great Kim Jong Un's powerful nation.

Unite faithfully around the great Comrade Kim Jong Un! Struggle vigorously for complete socialist victory and communist ideal society!

Long Live Our Glorious Homeland—The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!
Long Live the Great 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Homeland!