On July 1, Juche 102 (2013), Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery nearing completion.
Looking at the gatepost, he said it was built in a peculiar style and went on: As the gatepost depicts the fluttering flags of the WPK and the DPRK and is inscribed with the letters “1950” and “1953,” visitors can take in the place as the cemetery of the soldiers of the Korean People’s Army fallen in the Fatherland Liberation War. It looks as if our Party and our country embrace them.
He had initiated the project of the cemetery and personally chose its site. He solved all problems arising in the construction and gave specific instructions as regards the letters to be inscribed on the monument dedicated to the teaching and poem and the tombstone, as well as to the layouts of symbols for recollecting the fallen KPA soldiers.
He said to the accompanying officials: From olden times each grave had its owner, so our Party should be the owner of their grave.
On July 25, two days before the 60th anniversary of the great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, the inaugural ceremony of the cemetery was held splendidly at the picturesque foot of Mt Sokbak in the capital city of Pyongyang.
