calendar>>August 15. 2017 Juche 106
Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Observed
Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- Today is a great auspicious day in the Korean nation's history when a fundamental change took place in hewing out the independent destiny of the Korean people and a new origin was given for socialist Korea, says Rodong Sinmun in an editorial Tuesday.

The editorial goes on:

President Kim Il Sung achieved the historic cause of the country's liberation. Thanks to this day the dark era of national distress ended forever, the Korean people came to enter a wide road of creating a new life and the country could shed its rays as a genuine people's country.

His feat for the country's liberation is an immortal one that should be praised and glorified generation after generation, and the Korean people will always remain descendants and members of one family of the President.

He was the savior of the national rebirth, peerless patriot and father of socialist Korea as he led the bloody anti-Japanese revolutionary war to victory to liberate the country usurped by Japanese imperialism and built a prosperous and invincible country on this land where backwardness and poverty prevailed.

Thanks to the outstanding leadership of the President who wisely guided the revolution and construction on the basis of anti-Japanese revolutionary tradition and fighting experience established in the forest of Paektu, the army and people of the DPRK could win a brilliant victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, post-war rehabilitation, social revolution of several stages and socialist construction.

Leader Kim Jong Il, cherishing the far-sighted intention to add shine to Korea, advanced the revolution and construction as required by the idea and intention of the President, regarding it as his lifelong mission to carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of the President.

The history of victory and prosperity of the great Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea, socialist Korea is given steady continuity thanks to respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

Minju Joson in an editorial calls upon all the officials and other working people to glorify Juche Korea which was liberated and glorified by the great leaders into a socialist power, an envy of the world, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

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