The 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, met the war veterans and wartime merited persons who participated in the celebrations of the 73rd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War on July 28 and shared warm feelings with them.

The war veterans and wartime merited persons, who greeted the moment of happiness and glory they had so desired even in their dreams after participating in the celebrations of the Day of Victory held splendidly in the capital Pyongyang, were wrapped in boundless emotion and joy.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared, all the participants respectfully paid heartfelt tribute and thanks to the supreme commander and great father, who glorifies the victorious tradition and heroic spirit of July 27, the undying honour of our fatherland, through the centuries, and refreshingly unfolds the new era of national prosperity and military strength longed for by all generations on this land.

Comrade Kim Jong Un sent warm greetings in return to the war veterans and wartime merited persons, the defenders who wrote the first page of the epic of a powerful country with blood and the benefactors who laid the spiritual pillar of our eternally powerful state.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that grandly commemorating the July 27 of great victory together with the war veteran generation every year serves as a meaningful occasion to continuously charge into the hearts of the descendants the spirit of self-esteem that overflowed in the heroic years and the ever-victorious truth that cannot be bought even with billions, and as a powerful encouragement to the struggle for new victory.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that it is a great joy and inspiration for our Party, state and people that the victorious generation, who engraved the heroic status and prestige of our fatherland that should be glorified for all ages in the annals, stands before us today as the embodiment and witness of the miraculous victory.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, expressing his iron will to powerfully accelerate the building of a prosperous and powerful country that the heroic war generation had envisioned by firmly carrying forward the great and excellent traits born in the stern flames of the 1950s and the legend of the most righteous strength as the victorious bloodline of our revolution, had a significant commemorative photo taken with the war veterans and wartime merited persons that will go down forever in the history of succession.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly held the hands of the participants who approached him vying with each other amid tears of emotion, and repeatedly wished that the precious war veterans and wartime merited persons, who even today with white hair on their heads serve as an irreplaceable infinite strength and spiritual pillar, would grow stronger with age.

Political News Team of the Rodong Sinmun