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No 52/25 July 28, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery 2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Friendship Tower 3. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- As they are significantly celebrating July 27 with the great dignity and honour of being citizens of a powerful victor nation, all the people across the DPRK including the service personnel are paying the highest tribute to the defenders of the country in the 1950s, who created the history of eternal victory of heroic Korea. 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 Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery together with war veterans on July 26 on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs, chief secretaries of provincial Party committees and senior officials of ministries and national agencies. The guard of honour of the Korean People’s Army lined up in front of the cemetery. Kim Jong Un laid a flower before the wreath-laying stand “Soul of Heroes” and paid high tribute, praying for the immortality of the fallen KPA soldiers who won the priceless victory at great sacrifices in the grim years decisive of the destiny of our state and its people. A gun salute was fired in memory of the Fatherland Liberation War martyrs. Kim Jong Un went round the cemetery together with war veterans. He said that though the looks of the fallen soldiers of the People’s Army carved on the gravestones are very ordinary, the immortal feats of the proud sons and daughters of our country who defended their beloved country and the gains of the revolution at the cost of their lives and safeguarded the peace of mankind, are shining brilliantly from one century into the next along with the great world historic significance of July 27. He noted that the staunch spirit of defending the country and indomitable revolutionary faith of the victorious wartime generation, who created the great heroic era, are precious ideological and spiritual wealth all the people and the service personnel should firmly carry forward and glorify forever and constitute the invincible force of our revolution. Saying that it is the duty and revolutionary obligation of all of us, descendants of the victorious wartime generation, to build the world’s most prosperous power without fail on this land dyed with the blood of the fallen soldiers, Kim Jong Un affirmed that our socialist state will prosper forever as it enriches the glorious history and tradition of victory and demonstrates its matchless national strength and dignity. The participants recalled with deep emotion the precious feats of the heroic wartime soldiers who defended every inch of the country with their blood, and laid flowers before the graves of martyrs, vowing to carry forward the victory of July 27 year after year. Fireworks were set off in the sky of July, reflecting the noble tribute to the defenders of the country in the great years and the joy of celebrating the V-Day. Kim Jong Un wished that the war veterans, genuine models of the revolutionary and patriotic life, will live their remaining years in good health and happiness under the close care of the Party and the government and the respect of the people across the country. Only glory is in store for our people who are vigorously advancing towards the accomplishment of the great cause of building a powerful country with a strong army, always winning great victories under the wise leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, the peerlessly illustrious commander.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Friendship Tower Pyongyang, July 27 (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 Friendship Tower on July 26 on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. A wreath in the name of Kim Jong Un was laid before the tower. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that we will never forget the combat feats and merits of the fallen fighters of the Chinese People's Volunteers recorded in the history of the great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. He was accompanied by Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, and Kim Song Nam, director of the International Department of the WPK Central Committee.
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "The DPRK-ROK relations have gone completely beyond the time zone of the concept of homogenous" on Monday: The suspension of loudspeaker broadcasting against the DPRK, a halt to leaflet scattering and the allowance of individual ROK people for tour of the DPRK - these are details of the "sincere efforts" the Lee Jae Myung government of the ROK made since the moment of coming into office with hope for improved relations with the DPRK. In addition to that, Jong Tong Yong, newly-appointed minister of Unification, proposed putting an end to the time of power for power and opening up the time of addressing the good will in kind, the time of reconciliation and cooperation, talking about the revival of the disappeared peace and the restoration of the collapsed south-north relations. Recently, he is spinning a daydream, guessing the possibility of inviting someone to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to be held in Kyongju a few months later. We did not care who is elected president or what policy is being pursued in the ROK and, therefore, have not made any assessment of it so far. But this time I'm going to make our stand clear. As for the suspension of the anti-DPRK psychological propaganda broadcasting which the ROK authorities described as the first signal for the restoration of confidence between the south and the north, all this is the scourge they have voluntarily invited and thus it is the issue of themselves no matter how they settle it and is nothing but a reversible turning back of what they should not have done in the first place. In other words, it is not the work worthy of appreciation. If the ROK, which had stoked the atmosphere of extreme confrontation in the past after unilaterally declaring the DPRK as its principal enemy, expected that it could reverse all the results it had made with a few sentimental words, nothing is more serious miscalculation than it. The past few years that the Lee Jae Myung government described as the worst and foolish period were not only the meaningless time for the DPRK. The DPRK could reach a very important historical conclusion that the ROK, whether it advocates the "democracy" or assumes the mask of "conservativeness", can never be the partner of reconciliation and cooperation and throw away the preconceived idea contradictory to the reality after breaking away with a very tired and uncomfortable history fettered by the rhetorical expression of fellow countrymen. We can confirm once again that the true nature of the ROK politician who is surely enslaved to the departed spirit of unification by absorption can not be changed as the fact shows that he has set as a task of the times the normal operation of the Ministry of Unification that must be dissolved along with the reality in which the state-to-state relations are permanently fixed on the Korean peninsula. When only the 50-odd days since Lee Jae Myung's assumption to power are brought to light, leaving aside the past history of the successive regimes of the ROK, the ROK authorities made such sweet remarks as defusing tension on the Korean peninsula and improving the DPRK-ROK relations, but their blind trust to the ROK-U.S. alliance and their attempt to stand in confrontation with the DPRK are little short of their predecessor's. The land of the ROK adjacent to our southern border will be stained by powder fumes through the successive large-scale joint military drills of aggressive nature, and the U.S. and the ROK will try to shift the blame for the deteriorating situation on the Korean peninsula caused by them onto us as they did in the past. The world will soon witness it. No matter how desperately the Lee Jae Myung government may try to imitate the fellow countrymen and pretend they do all sorts of righteous things to attract our attention and receive international attention, there can be no change in our state's understanding of the enemy and they can not turn back the hands of the clock of the history which has radically changed the character of the DPRK-ROK relations. We clarify once again the official stand that no matter what policy is adopted and whatever proposal is made in Seoul, we have no interest in it and there is neither the reason to meet nor the issue to be discussed with the ROK. The DPRK-ROK relations have irreversibly gone beyond the time zone of the concept of homogeneous.
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