2024-08-16 KOREA BULLETIN - 2024-27

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No 27/24 Aug 16, 2024

1. Flood Victims in North Phyongan, Jagang and Ryanggang Provinces
Arrive in Pyongyang
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech Welcoming People Who
Have Arrived in Pyongyang from Flood-hit Areas
3. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Revolutionary Martyrs
Cemetery on Mt Taesong
4. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Liberation Tower
5. 79th Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Marked in DPRK
Flood Victims in North Phyongan, Jagang and
Ryanggang Provinces Arrive in Pyongyang

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Lodging Quarters to Warmly Greet Flood
Victims
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The noble intention and benevolent care of the
Workers’ Party of Korea, which regards it as its sacred duty and an immutable mode of its
existence to uphold the people as Heaven and firmly defend them, reached first to all those
who suffered misfortune from the grand natural disaster. This produces legendary tales of
devotion for the people one after another, stirring the whole country.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who devotes all his heart and soul for the
safety and well-being of his beloved people, braving any hardships and trials, had
thousands of lives rescued from the flooding that swept the northwestern part of the
country and a gigantic project for dramatic transformation launched for recovery from the
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flood damage. And he took an important measure of making sure that the flood victims
enjoy state-backed care and benefits in the capital city of Pyongyang without feeling any
worry.
Under the direct arrangement by the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of
Korea, strong steps were taken to give them an emergency assistance. The April 25 Hostel
and the base for military parade training in the capital city have been fully provided with
conditions for education, nursing, living, relaxation, recreation and medical treatment for
preschoolers, schoolchildren and inhabitants from the flood-hit areas.
Children, schoolchildren, the elderly, the sick, honoured disabled ex-soldiers and
nursing mothers, numbering more than 13 000, left the relevant areas by train amid the
warm send-off by officials of the Party and power organs and inhabitants in North
Phyongan, Jagang and Ryanggang provinces. They arrived in Pyongyang on August 15
and went to their lodging quarters.
With excitement and pleasure, the families of flood victims entered the lodging
quarters associated with the warm care and sincerity of the great Party Central Committee
that always devotes its absolute and ardent love to the honourable service for the people.
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, visited the lodging quarters to
meet the inhabitants from different flood-hit areas.
When he arrived, the flood victims broke into enthusiastic cheers.
They raised cheers of emotion, looking up to the respected Marshal with tears in their
eyes, as he came to their lodging quarters despite the fierce heat with the paternal feeling
of the father who greets his own flesh and blood, after repeatedly showing the great love
and benevolence lest all of them should live in gloom.
Kim Jong Un waved his hand to acknowledge their enthusiastic cheers.
The compound was full of emotion, displaying the true features peculiar to the DPRK
where the leader and the people are united with affection and obligation.
Kim Jong Un was accompanied by senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.
He made a welcome speech.
He expressed thanks to the flood victims from different regions for having trusted and
followed the measures taken by the Party and the government as well as his pleasure over
meeting them in Pyongyang.
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Referring to the efforts made by the Party and the government to provide with
sincerity living conditions and an environment for the elderly, nursing mothers, honoured
disabled ex-soldiers and children who experienced inconveniences in the afflicted areas
near the border and in the northern inland parts of the country, he stressed that utmost
sincerity would be offered to them with the main stress on their health and convenience as
an absolute standard.
It is heartbreaking that people in some parts and regions of the country experienced
mental pain owing to the unexpected natural disaster, but in the face of the pain and trials
our grand socialist family has been rallied more closely and united more firmly with an
ennobling feeling, he said, referring to the steadfast will of the Party and the government to
turn the present disaster into a watershed for regional efflorescence and the bright prospect.
He warmly wished that all of the flood victims will have an unforgettable and
meaningful time while staying in the capital city of their beloved motherland, asking the
officials and employees of the April 25 Hostel and the base for military parade training, as
well as others concerned, to work hard so that these disaster victims can be in a better
condition than before, when returning to their dear native places that will be transformed
beyond recognition.
When he finished his welcome speech, all the participants were moved to tears by the
ardent feelings of the great father, who devotes his all for the people, regarding making
painstaking efforts for them as his pleasure.
Kim Jong Un waved his hands for a long time toward the flood victims sobbing with
deep gratitude.
The flood victims, who would enjoy a privilege under the special care and important
measure of the Party and the state, expressed boundless gratitude to Kim Jong Un, as a
reflection of the unanimous desire of all the inhabitants in the flood-hit areas and the
people of the whole country.
Kim Jong Un visited a dining hall for children.
The children unreservedly moved into his arms. Warmly embracing them, he said that
they should take foods heartily and grow up healthily to become happy children adding to
the laughter of their families and country.
He wished again that all those flood victims would spend pleasant days in good health,
enjoying benefits to their heart’s content without any worry during their stay in Pyongyang.
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The Korean people, who are living under the red flag of the great Workers’ Party of
Korea that subordinates all the state affairs to their wellbeing, will enjoy eternal happiness
in the one and only grand socialist family in the world however disastrous the havoc
caused by nature is.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech Welcoming People Who
Have Arrived in Pyongyang from Flood-hit Areas
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a
speech welcoming the people who have arrived in Pyongyang from the flood-hit areas on
August 15.
The full text of the speech is as follows:
Dear citizens from North Phyongan, Jagang and Ryanggang provinces,
Respected residents from several regions,
How are you?
First of all, I would like to express my thanks to you for trusting in and following the
measures adopted by the Party and government.
All of you must have taken much trouble coming all the way here.
It is my pleasure to be receiving you with a hearty welcome in Pyongyang.
And you, students, my beloved children,
I welcome you here.
To me, it is a great relief that hostels with fairly good conditions can be provided to the
elderly, nursing mothers, honoured disabled ex-soldiers and children, who have lived in
discomfort in the flood-hit areas along the border lines and the northern inland region of
the country.
Here, the April 25 Hostel and the base for military parade training are fully prepared to
receive you with all sincerity and provide every convenience for you.
We will make further efforts to ensure a comfortable living for all of you.
We will also pay due attention to working out schedules so that you can spend a
pleasant, memorable time at the tourist attractions and bases for leisure activities in the
capital city.
The April 25 Hostel, where you will stay starting from today, has been used to
accommodate delegates to significant national conferences, and the base for military
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parade training is specially furnished to provide the conditions and environment necessary
for the participating service personnel.
Several national events are already slated for the latter half of this year, but we have
decided to commit these facilities to the exclusive use of the people from the flood-hit
areas.
I hope you will feel at home here, enjoying yourselves without any worry.
Some of you may be physically unfit to move freely, and some others may experience
inconveniences that are beyond their physical abilities. We will do our best to ensure that
you live happily doing what you want to do, and in doing so, our absolute criteria will be
meticulous attention to your health and comfort.
This is an impressive and happy day.
Our Party and government are most proud of such days.
You are justifiably entitled to such grand welcome and sincere hospitality, and our
Party and government are obliged to take full responsibility for the life and health of all the
people within the territory of our Republic.
This is a mandatory obligation and top priority for our Party and our state.
All of you, who are present here, as precious members of our people, have remained
faithful to our Party all your lives, working with devotion for the prosperity and
development of our state; even when left homeless in the aftermath of an unexpected
disaster, you treasured your trust in our Party more than your personal property or houses
that had been lost, and your confidence in it remains fundamentally unchanged.
In view of the important role you are playing in actively supporting our Party and state,
and considering your position as future buttresses of the country, you justly deserve the
best possible hospitality and services.
I believe that this time, while staying in Pyongyang, you will spend pleasant and
memorable days thanks to the utmost sincerity of Pyongyang citizens and their tender care.
This time Pyongyang citizens showed heartfelt sincerity and tender solicitude towards
the afflicted people by joining our Party and government in their initiatives to remove
those people’s sufferings as soon as possible. I was deeply moved by the citizens’
ennobling spiritual world.
At this moment, large numbers of Party members and young people from the capital
city are working hard to restore the flood-hit areas, and relief supplies from Pyongyang are
continuously being sent to these areas.
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It is heartbreaking that people in some parts and regions of the country experienced
mental pain owing to the unexpected natural disaster, but in the face of the pain and trials
our grand socialist family has been rallied more closely and united more firmly with an
ennobling feeling.
And our confidence in changing today’s disaster to a watershed for transforming
regions has become more unwavering based on this unity of the whole society.
We will transform regions.
This is our ideal, and we are capable of turning it into reality.
The natural disaster was a stumbling block to our advance, but in these trials we have
found another driving force for defending our ideal and bringing it into full bloom.
By dint of this force, we will renovate your home villages, workplaces and schools,
precious parts of our country, more beautifully and more wonderfully.
This time we are not going to confine ourselves to simply rebuilding the afflicted areas,
but we will turn them into a model and textbook of regions becoming urbanized,
modernized and civilized.
Soon the places destroyed by flooding and landslides will become transformed and
richer beyond recognition without fail.
Therefore, please, all of you, have a good, happy time here without any worry.
I hope that the officials and employees of the April 25 Hostel and the base for military
parade training, as well as others concerned, will work hard so that these disaster victims
can be in a better condition than before, when returning to their dear native places that will
be transformed beyond recognition.
I entrust these elderly people, mothers and children to the members of the mobile
education teams in charge of the teaching and edification of the children, and to the
members of the mobile medical teams who are responsible for patient treatment and
elderly care. I am in firm belief that these mobile team members will show utmost
sincerity and selfless devotion.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to extend my thanks once again to
you for invariably trusting and supporting our Party.
Dear citizens,
Comrades,
The trust placed in us by our people–this is our biggest and most valuable asset which
cannot be compared to any material wealth.
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I reaffirm that we are ready to go through thick and thin to prove ourselves worthy of
the great trust shown by our people, and that we will work with devotion for the good of
our great people and faithfully serve them.
Today it is a significant holiday, which marks the liberation of our country.
I hope that the elderly, women and all others from the flood-hit areas will enjoy this
holiday happily and have an unforgettable and significant time while staying in the capital
city of their beloved motherland.
Thank you.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery
on Mt Taesong
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- 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, visited the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong on August 15, the day
of Korea's liberation.
He was accompanied by secretaries and other officials of the WPK Central Committee.
The guard of honour of the Korean People's Army lined up at the cemetery.
A wreath in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid amid the
playing of the wreath-laying music.
Written on the ribbon of the wreath were letters reading "Revolutionary martyrs will
be immortal".
Kim Jong Un, together with the participants, paid a high tribute to the revolutionary
martyrs who laid down their precious lives for the country's independence and sovereignty,
the people's liberation and the victorious advance of the socialist cause.
There was a march-past of the KPA guard of honour.
Noting that August 15 was a great auspicious event that the Korean people achieved
the national independence and sovereignty and a great political event that they opened up a
broad avenue for building an independent power, Kim Jong Un said that the day ushered
in the new era of the dignity and prestige of Juche Korea and its valiant spirit with which it
is proving the truth of its cause through a courageous and dynamic struggle.
The indomitable faith, noble ideal and exploits of the pioneer generation of the Korean
revolution are displaying inexhaustible viability without the slightest discoloration despite
the passage of time, he said, adding that they serve as a precious revolutionary legacy and
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ideological blood vessel of fundamental and lasting significance in the development of the
Korean revolution.
He stressed that when the revolutionary spirit of Paektu guaranteeing the ever-
victorious history and eternal youth of the Juche revolution is carried forward dynamically
in a pure way through all ages, our cause, noble in its origin and sacred in its history and
tradition, can never be checked and it will advance towards eternal glory and victory,
displaying a tremendous strength.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Liberation Tower
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- 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, visited the Liberation Tower on August 15, the 79th anniversary of Korea's
liberation.
Accompanying him were senior officials of the Central Committee of the WPK and
Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, and commanding officers of armed forces
organs.
The guard of honour of the Korean People's Army lined up in front of the tower.
The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the DPRK were played.
A wreath in the name of Kim Jong Un was laid before the tower amid the playing of
the wreath-laying music.
Written on the ribbon of the wreath were letters reading "We do not forget the exploits
of the fallen martyrs of the Soviet Army".
Kim Jong Un paid a high tribute to the fallen martyrs, recollecting with reverence the
feats performed by the officers and men of the Soviet Army in realizing the historic sacred
cause of Korea's liberation.
There was a march-past of the KPA guard of honour.
Kim Jong Un said the great history of Korea's liberation, which brought about a
radical turn in carving out the destiny of the Korean revolution and the Korean nation and
bringing about their rejuvenation, is clearly associated with the matchless self-sacrificing
spirit and immortal exploits displayed by the excellent sons and daughters of the Russian
people and that the heroic images of the officers and men of the Red Army are cherished
as a genuine example of true internationalism in the minds of the Korean people.
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He said that the militant friendship and solidarity forged between the service personnel
and peoples of the two countries in the sacred war against the common enemy fully
demonstrated their invincibility and eternal vitality in the protracted course of struggle to
foil the imperialists' arbitrary practices and hegemony.
He said that the good history, tradition and ties of kinship spanning more than 80 years
serve as the basic cornerstone to develop the DPRK-Russia relations of friendship and
cooperation into the most solid comradely relations and comprehensive strategic
partnership and as the inexhaustible strength propelling the building of powerful states in
the two countries and the creation of a multi-polarized new world.
He expressed belief that the great friendship and solidarity between the peoples of the
DPRK and Russia, who built the forward-looking ties between the states and are struggling
shoulder to shoulder for the common purpose, would be creditably carried forward and
developed along with the noble soul of the forerunners of the two countries and with the
new era of overall heyday.
79th Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Marked in DPRK
Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- All the people and service personnel across the
DPRK significantly celebrated the 79th anniversary of Korea's liberation, full of great
national pride and self-confidence.
An endless stream of the people yearning for President Kim Il Sung and Chairman
Kim Jong Il visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, where
the President and the Chairman lie in state, on the day of Korea's liberation.
The visitors made deep bows to the venerable images of the President and the
Chairman at the plaza of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.
Working people, service personnel, syouth and students visited the statues of the great
leaders on Mansu Hill and mosaics depicting the peerlessly great men across the country
and laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers.
At the Arch of Triumph, visitors recalled deeply that the liberation of the country was
a historic victory the President brought about through his great programme of the great
national unity, all-people resistance.
Many people visited the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong, the Patriotic
Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri and the Hyesan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery associated
with the noble soul and spirit of the revolutionary martyrs.
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Officials, working people, youth and students in North Hamgyong Province, Nampho
Municipality and other areas toured the Sangdansan Revolutionary Battle Site and the
Kuksabong Revolutionary Battle Site.
The DPRK flags were hoisted at institutions and enterprises across the country and
fluttered at the windows of houses on the occasion of the day of Korea's liberation.
Art performances were given at different theatres in Pyongyang on this occasion.
Open-air performances were given in different parts of the capital city to rev up the
festive atmosphere.
Art performances were given in South Phyongan, South Hwanghae, Kangwon and
South Hamgyong provinces, Nampho Municipality and other parts of the country.
Public catering establishments in the capital city and other parts of the country were
crowded with guests.
Working people and schoolchildren enjoyed themselves at the Central Zoo, the Natural
History Museum, the Munsu Water Park and other recreation grounds in Pyongyang.