In his speech made at the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un noted that the DPRK people dedicated their lives readily for the country and the revolution, unhesitatingly encouraged their dear children to follow in their footsteps, and regarded it not as sorrow but as honour when their sons and daughters failed to return alive, adding that such fortitude peculiar to the DPRK people remains unchanged and has been inherited for a century, from the days of the anti-Japanese war up to now.
Kim Jong Un said that as he reflects on it now, such fortitude was by no means an unusual feeling or impulse that was displayed in a certain period of history, namely the years of the anti-Japanese revolution characterized by the gravity and severity of circumstances. He continued that rather, as a manifestation of the greatness of the DPRK people, it mirrors their ennobling view of life that they can lead a most worthwhile and happiest life by devoting themselves to the victory and glory of their motherland and it is a spirit and tradition which, like a bloodline, will always be handed down and carried forward without fail generation after generation. He stressed that this immortal inheritance constitutes the best of the DPRK people’s advantageous and great qualities.
