Events Held in Celebration of Victory in Fatherland Liberation War

   Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- A meeting with the victorious wartime generation was held and an art performance was given here on July 27, the 72nd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
As war veterans and persons of wartime merits entered the venues of events, the participants greeted them with the applause of ardent respect and welcome.
Leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs took the platform together with war veterans.
Present there were officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the WPK, service personnel including soldiers of an artillery sub-unit under the 4th Corps of the Korean People's Army who were invited to the celebrations of the V-Day as special guests, officials of ministries and national agencies and officials, meritorious persons, students of the revolutionary schools and youth and students in Pyongyang.
Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys and members of foreign missions here.
Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, made a speech.
The premier said that the meeting is a very impressive and auspicious one celebrated by the generation of heroes who braved the fierce battles for the day of victory, the sacred start of all honors, and by the new generation who have won the most remarkable victory and immortal honor in the history of the country by carrying forward the noble spirit.
He said that it is a strong encouragement to the future struggle that the new generation writing a new biography of the comprehensive national rejuvenation on the cornerstone for building a rich country with a strong army laid by the forerunners with blood and sweat meets the wartime generation frequently and closely.
Noting that the tradition of victory will be firmly succeeded as the revolutionary faith and the spirit of defence that the victorious wartime generation have lived and struggled, cherishing deep in their hearts all their life, and handed down to the new generation as a baton have been firmly kept, he ardently called upon all the people to advance courageously for the honor of a victor nation to be handed down to posterity under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un and for the eternal dignity and prosperity of the glorious DPRK.
An art performance was given.
Children and students presented bouquets to the war veterans and persons of wartime merits in the auditorium amid the playing of song "Respects to Victors of Great Years".
Seen on the stage were documentary screens that show the unprecedented ravages committed by the U.S. imperialists in the middle of the 20th century, called "century of war", against the first people's country built in an eastern part of the earth, the new-born DPRK in the cradle.
Wartime songs and hymns to war victory reflecting the heroic spirit of the DPRK which turned into a volcano of justice and defence against the imperialist tyranny and the indomitable resistance history of the strong people who defended not only the dignity, honor and sovereignty of the newly-built DPRK but also the world peace and security at the cost of their blood echoed on the stage, recollecting the truth of history.
When the ennobling image of President Kim Il Sung declaring the victory of the Korean people at the venue for a military parade for celebrating the victory in the war was displayed on the screen and his recorded voice resounded, the audience enthusiastically applauded with their boundless reverence for the peerlessly brilliant commander.
The song "Victorious Wartime Generation" was acclaimed by the audience as it reflects the posterity's respect to the generation of heroes who will shine as an everlasting golden star along with the honor of the victor nation. The performance ended with "July 27, Our Victory Day" and "Tell, Fireworks of War Victory", the hymns to war victory in the era of the Workers' Party.
War veterans and persons of wartime merits mounted on the stage and congratulated the performers on their successful performance, presenting bouquets to them. -0-