73rd Anniversary of Victory in Fatherland Liberation War Celebrated across DPRK

The V-Day of the DPRK, July ２７, was splendidly celebrated across the country.

Officials, working people, service personnel of the People’s Army, school youth and children visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il lie in state, the statues of the President and the Chairman and the mosaics depicting the peerlessly great men in different parts of the country to pay tribute to them.

Many people visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery, martyrs cemeteries, memorial towers and graveyards for the fallen soldiers of the Korean People’s Army in different parts of the country.

At the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, the visitors looked back upon the feats performed by the service personnel of the People’s Army who displayed matchless heroism and self-sacrificing spirit in the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War.

Officials, working people, school youth and children across the country visited families of war veterans and persons of wartime merits to congratulate the revolutionary forerunners on the holiday.

School youth and children met with war veterans in North Phyongan, South Hwanghae, North Hwanghae, North Hamgyong and Ryanggang provinces.

Colorful performances given in major places in Pyongyang and provinces revved up the festive atmosphere.

The desire and enthusiasm of the successors to usher in a new era of the overall national prosperity, preserving the precious ideological and spiritual wealth handed down by the victorious wartime generation, were manifested at the dancing parties held across the country.

Special services were given to war veterans and persons of wartime merits at public catering and welfare service establishments across the country, and the cultural recreation grounds were full of laughter of working people and schoolchildren enjoying the holiday.

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Dancing parties of youth and students in Pyongyang took place on Monday, the ７３rd anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

The dancing parties began with the song "Holiday of Great War Victory" at the plaza of the Arch of Triumph and other places.

The youth and students danced with reverence for President Kim Il Sung who created legendary tales of miraculous war victory of heroic Korea with his outstanding ideology and leadership and provided the Korean people with high dignity and glory of a powerful nation.

Reflected on the faces of the participants dancing to the tune of the song "Dear Father" was their high pride of glorifying the great traditions of heroic Korea generation after generation, holding in high esteem the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un who is demonstrating the national power and prestige to the world.

The strong desire of the youth to give continuity to the national history of victory and glory was overflowing with the song "Let’s Love Our Country".

Enthusiasm of the youth vanguard to demonstrate the spirit and might of the patriotic youth in the struggle to defend the socialist country and usher in a new era of building a prosperous state was fully displayed in the songs "We Will Devote Our Youth to the Country" and "Ardent Wish".

Such dancing parties took place in all provinces, cities and counties that day.

Rodong Sinmun