This was noted by the Swiss preparatory committee for celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War in a statement released at its inaugural ceremony held in Basel, Switzerland on May 23.

The statement went on:

The Korean people will proudly greet July 27 this year, the 60th anniversary of the victory in the war, as a glorious festival of the Songun revolution.

The Korean people and the heroic Korean People's Army defeated U.S. imperialism in the 3-year-long war, honorably defending the freedom and independence of the country under the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, an invincible and iron-willed commander.

The Korean people were recorded as the first nation which beat back the aggression of U.S. imperialism in history.

The U.S. signed the Armistice Agreement as a defeated country on July 27, 1953.