Pyongyang, July 29 (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 flood-hit areas in Sinuiju City and Uiju County of North Phyongan Province on July 28. Accompanying him were Jo Yong Won and Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by Pak Jong Chon, vice- chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and the minister of National Defence and other commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.
Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- The 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was significantly celebrated in the DPRK as a day of all-people auspicious event. The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il lie in state, was crowed with visitors carrying their boundless loyalty and reverence. At the plaza of the palace, the visitors made deep bows to the venerable images of the President and the Chairman who defended and glorified the sovereignty and dignity of the country with their distinguished military ideas and theory, superb strategy and tactics and bold courage in the van of the anti-U.S. struggle. Service personnel and working people visited the revolutionary sites associated with the President's immortal history of leadership for war victory, recalling his personality as the peerlessly great man who performed a military miracle unprecedented in the world and gave birth to heroic Korea. Officials, working people, service personnel, and youth and students visited the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong, the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri and the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery to lay bouquets and flowers. Meetings with war veterans and heroes of the Republic were held in different parts of the country. Many working people and youth and students called at the war veterans' homes to share feelings of kinship with them. Celebration performances were given at theatres in the capital city of Pyongyang and local areas to rev up the festive mood. Art performances were given in South Phyongan, Jagang and South Hamgyong provinces, Nampho and Kaesong municipalities and other regions. A women's handball game took place at the Handball Gymnasium in Chongchun Street to celebrate the V-Day. Public amenities across the country were crowded with visitors.