The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea promulgated a decree of amnesty on July 30 on the occasion of the 75th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The decree said that the 75 year-long history of the glorious WPK is the one of warm love for people, in which it has dedicated itself to the people, being fully responsible for their destiny and future and taking care of them.

It noted that it is the consistent policy of the WPK and the government of the DPRK to take warm care of anyone who was born on this land, being wholly responsible for protecting his destiny and future.

According to the decree, amnesty will be granted to those, who had been convicted of crimes against the country and the people, on the occasion of the 75th founding anniversary of the WPK.

The amnesty will take effect from Sept. 17, Juche 109 (2020).

The DPRK Cabinet and relevant organs will take practical measures to help the released people settle down in normal working life.

A spokesperson for the Korean Committee on Measures for the Sexual Slavery for Japanese Army and Drafting Victims issued a statement on Saturday on the lapse of 75 years since the defeat of the Japanese imperialists who inflicted untold misfortune and pain upon the Korean nation.

Noting that though it is said that memories of the past get vague with the passage of the time, the Korean people clearly remember the past crimes of Japan, the atonement for which it desperately shuns, said the statement

It went on:

Had 200 000 Japanese women been forced into sexual slavery by foreign troops, several millions of Japanese people been subject to miserable deaths after being forcibly brought abroad and the Japanese people been deprived of their family and personal names and banned from talking in Japanese, the Japanese people would never forget it.

But Japan, far from atoning for its crime-woven past, has desperately discriminated against and suppressed the Koreans in Japan and pursued policies hostile to the DPRK, adding fuel to the hatred of the Korean people toward it.

The Korean Committee on Measures for the Sexual Slavery for Japanese Army and Drafting Victims stated as follows on behalf of the victims of hideous inhuman crimes, committed by the Japanese imperialists, and their bereaved families:

First, the Japanese authorities should keenly realize their national responsibility for the inhuman crimes against the Korean people and make a sincere apology and reparation before it is too late.

All the inhuman crimes the Japanese imperialists committed against the Korean people including sexual slavery for the Japanese army and drafting of Korean people were not committed by an individual solider or an official at his will but premeditated and perpetrated by the "great Japanese empire" through invocation of state power and they were the products of the heinous policy pursued by it to exterminate the Korean nation.

Second, the Japanese authorities should immediately stop the hateful distortion of history and the impudent moves to revive the old dream for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", seeking to seize other's territory.

The Korean Committee on Measures for the Sexual Slavery for Japanese Army and Drafting Victims will trace and investigate all the inhuman crimes committed by Japan against the Korean people to the last, record them in history and stage a bolder struggle in demand of Japan's atonement for the past crimes until the Japanese government make a sincere apology and reparation to the Korean people.

It has been 75 years since Korea was liberated from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule on August 15, Juche 34 (1945).

Recorded in the proud history of socialist Korea which has displayed its dignity as an independent country admired by the world are the undying exploits of President Kim Il Sung, a legendary hero of the anti-Japanese war who liberated Korea to set a world-historic example of the national liberation war in colonial countries.

In his teens, the President grasped the truth that a man is the master of his destiny and is capable of hewing out his destiny.  On this basis, he advanced a new idea that no one would offer independence to the people in colonies and the cause of national liberation can be achieved only by their own struggle.

His clear independent stand is well reflected in the line on organizing and waging the armed struggle based on the guerilla warfare, the line on forming the anti-Japanese national united front and other unique struggle lines the President set forth in the days of anti-Japanese armed struggle.

Under the banner of national independence and self-reliant independence, the Korean nation turned out in the struggle against the Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth.

With full confidence in victory and do-or-die spirit, the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners fought in the spirit of becoming human bombs and devoted their youth and life to the revolution.

Lots of patriots and people turned out as one in the nationwide anti-Japanese sacred war and firmly rallied around the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front to form Juche-oriented revolutionary forces for national liberation.

Thanks to the independent revolutionary line advanced by the President, the Korean people could overthrow the Japanese imperialists' colonial fascist ruling system and achieve the historic cause of national liberation which the Korean people had longed for so eagerly.

Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule clearly showed before the history and world that people could sure to win in the struggle against the aggressors when they turn out as one with firm belief in their own strength under the guidance of the outstanding leader.

Today the DPRK people are dynamically advancing toward the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche, upholding the banner of independence as an invariable one for building a powerful socialist country.

Leading papers of the DPRK in their editorials on Saturday, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Korea, praise the feats performed by President Kim Il Sung for liberating Korea.

Lauding the President as a legendary hero for all ages who set an example in the struggle for national liberation to be specially recorded in world history under the banner of independence and self-reliance and as a peerlessly great man who created the precious revolutionary traditions which should be carried forward forever by our state and people, Rodong Sinmun says in its editorial:

The liberation of Korea was the brilliant fruition of the idea of the President for national independence and self-reliant independence. It is an undying feat of the President for the Korean revolution and the cause of human independence that he set a world-historic example in the national liberation struggle in colonies.

The victory in the anti-Japanese war served as a springboard for building and developing Juche Korea by dint of independence and self-reliance. By firmly adhering to the independent revolutionary line in the state building and activities, the DPRK has demonstrated its might as the one and only politico-ideological power in the world and invincible military power.

It is the general review of the 75 year-long history that no one and nothing can ever check the revolutionary advance of the Korean people filled with the spirit of national independence and national self-sustenance.

Inexhaustible is the vitality of the revolutionary traditions of our Party that has been fully displayed for decades. When we invariably carry forward and develop the glorious revolutionary traditions created on Mt. Paektu, we can tide over any difficulties and attain any great goal.

Minju Joson also praises the President as the savior of national restoration who accomplished the historic cause of national liberation by waging a bloody war against the Japanese imperialists, crossing steep ridges and deep valleys of Mt Paektu, for 20 years since he pioneered the Korean revolution.

The 16th meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on August 13.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the WPK, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, was present at the meeting.

Attending the meeting were members of the Presidium and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

Present there as observers were directors, first vice directors and vice directors of departments of the WPK Central Committee, vice-premiers of the Cabinet, ministers, chairpersons of provincial Party committees, chairpersons of Party committees of ministries and national institutions, commanding officers of the armed forces organs and members of the Central Emergency Anti-epidemic Headquarters.

Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, Supreme Leader of the Party, the state and the armed forces Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting.

The meeting discussed and decided on the issues of eradicating the flood damage and providing stable living conditions to the people as early as possible by concentrating all efforts, and on further strictly maintaining the state emergency anti-epidemic system in the face of the worldwide public health crisis, perfecting the regular commanding system for anti-epidemic work, on lifting a lock-down of the frontline area including Kaesong City, and on organizing a new department in the Party Central Committee, and examined the state event preparations for marking the 75th Party founding anniversary with splendor, before studying and discussing relevant measures.

The Fourth Meeting of the Executive Policy Council of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on August 5.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the WPK, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, was present at the meeting.

Attending the meeting were Pak Pong Ju, Ri Pyong Chol, Ri Il Hwan, Choe Hwi, Kim Tok Hun, Pak Thae Song, Kim Yong Chol, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-chairmen of the WPK Central Committee who are members of the Executive Policy Council of the WPK Central Committee, and other officials of major departments of the Party Central Committee.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting.

The meeting of the Executive Policy Council examined and discussed the issue of organizing a new department within the Central Committee of the Party and studied and discussed the ways to radically improve the personnel affairs system of the Party.

Rodong Sinmun on Friday says in an editorial that all the sectors and the units are vigorously waging the campaign for thoroughgoing anti-epidemic work to meet the requirement of the maximum emergency system, true to the idea put forth at the emergency enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

By the voluntary and volitional efforts of all the people who accepted the decision made at the Party meeting as their vital work for defending their destiny and future and thoroughly carry it out without condition, the prevailing crisis in anti-epidemic work will be surely defused, it notes, and goes on:

All the officials, Party members and working people should ensure the unity of voluntary action in which they move as one under the unified guidance of the Party and the state and thus fully demonstrate the might of our state that achieved the single-hearted unity.

All the officials and working people should face up to the present emergency situation and ensure the unity of thinking and action and thoroughly implement the decision made at the emergency enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

And they should make positive efforts to stabilize the livelihood of the people to the maximum, true to the noble intention of the Party to give top priority to the interests and convenience of the people, regarding them as absolute, and remain prepared for tackling possible deviations.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, acquainted himself with the emergency anti-epidemic work in Kaesong City.

As part of the efforts to implement the decision made at the emergency enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party, Choe Ryong Hae made rounds of anti-epidemic checkpoints urgently established in the vicinity of the city and learnt in detail about the anti-epidemic work and supply of materials.

He called for strictly performing disinfection and quarantine inspection in accordance with the anti-epidemic requirements under the situation that materials including foodstuff and medicine necessary for the living of inhabitants are intensively sent to the city, thanks to the measure taken by the Party and the state.

The field consultative meeting discussed the matter to let officials and members involved in the anti-epidemic work carry out the directions and assignments of the Party Central Committee most correctly with the boundless loyalty to the Party, sense of responsibility and devotion. It also discussed the matter to take thoroughgoing and safe measures through close cooperation among relevant institutions.

The participants in the 6th National Conference of War Veterans enjoyed themselves at the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort before and after the conference.

Our Party has always paid deep attention to the promotion of war veterans' health, putting forward them as the greatest treasure of our revolution.

Our Party took a benevolent measure of making the participants take a good rest at the hot spring resort.

The people in Yangdok County and officials and employees of the resort management office warmly welcomed the war veterans as honored guests upon their arrival.

The war veterans were granted a special favor at the resort which was built at the place of scenic beauty.

War veterans felt the greatest delight, while seeing the outdoor spa in pine forest of Onjong Peak and commanding a bird's-eye view of the scenic resort from the top of Tae Peak where they arrived on ski lift through fresh air.

War veterans who participated in the 6th National Conference of War Veterans held with splendor on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War left here on Tuesday.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un who values and treats war veterans as dear forerunners of the revolution personally attended the conference and made a congratulatory speech with high appreciation and respect for war veterans and also made sure that the congratulatory message of the Central Committee of the Party was sent to the war veterans greeting the V-Day so as to add luster to the feats performed by the participants in the Fatherland Liberation War in the history of the country.

The war veterans on their way home with deep emotion and great joy of receiving warm loving care and trust by our Party were warmly sent off by employees of the lodging quarter.

In the streets of the capital where the buses with the war veterans aboard passed, Pyongyangites waved their hands to the elder generations of the revolution who are enjoying the greatest honor and happiness under the benevolence of the mother party.

Senior officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea warmly saw the war veterans off at Pyongyang International Airport and Pyongyang Railway Station.

The participants in the 6th National Conference of War Veterans expressed their determination to fulfill their educators' role in handing down the spirit of defending the country and the revolution in the 1950s to the rising generation as the bloodline of faith, bearing in mind the deep intention of our Party hoping that they would serve as the eternal source of our strength and spiritual mainstay.

Fireworks were displayed in Pyongyang on Monday, the 67th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

Lots of people gathered in different parts of the capital city near the Tower of the Juche Idea, including Okryu Bridge and Taedonggang Bridge, to watch the fireworks.

At 21:00 fireworks were shot off to form a five-pointed star as token of tribute of people to the victors of the great years in the sky above the Tower of the Juche Idea amid the playing of "Song of National Defence".

The display of gorgeous multicolor fireworks seemed to represent the deep reverence of the people for President Kim Il Sung, an invincible and iron-willed commander who provided the history and tradition of eternal victory of heroic Korea by wisely leading the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War.

Fireworks of various shapes and colors were displayed in the nocturnal sky.

Fireworks were set off in succession to the tune of the songs "Holiday of Great War Victory" and "We Will Defend General Kim Jong Un with Our Lives", revving up the festive mood.

The following is the full text of the speech "The Feats Performed by the Great Victors Will Remain for Ever" made by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un at the Sixth National Conference of War Veterans on July 27, Juche 109 (2020):

Esteemed comrades war veterans,

This is July 27.

The victorious July 27 is the day when all the people born on this land celebrate with surging emotions the great victory in the war that is etched in the past history, repeating the word victory.

Greeting the holiday of victory today, I am seeing you, esteemed war veterans, again, who created the great history, at this conference. I am so happy that I cannot find words to express my feelings.

It is an honour for us to have you, valuable teachers, at this conference.

Greeting the 67th anniversary of victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War, I, on behalf of our Workers' Party of Korea and government, extend warm congratulations to you participating in this conference and other veterans of the war and people who performed wartime merits.

I also extend noble respects to the revolutionary martyrs, both sung and unsung, who sacrificed their precious lives in the sacred war for achieving the reunification and independence of their country and the freedom and happiness of their fellow people.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I offer my noble respects to the martyrs and veterans of the Chinese People's Volunteers, who set a genuine example of militant friendship by helping our people in their revolutionary war at the cost of blood.

Esteemed comrades war veterans,

We cannot think of our country today without remembering the sweats and blood shed by the generation of the victors in the war, the great spirit they demonstrated and the ennobling sacrifice of the warriors.

We will remember them for ever.

It is our Party's mind always to see you, who performed immortal feats etched in the history of our country, and give prominence to and feel proud of your heroic lives with dignity. This conference will prove an important opportunity for demonstrating at home and abroad the unanimous aspiration and will of our Party and all our people to hand down more vividly the exploits of the war veterans to posterity and carry forward the fighting spirit of the 1950s so as to translate the forerunners' ennobling desires to reality without fail.

The 6th National Conference of War Veterans was held splendidly in Pyongyang at the April 25 House of Culture on Monday.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, was present at the conference.

War veterans and persons of wartime merits who displayed unrivaled bravery and self-sacrificing spirit out of boundless loyalty to the leader attended the conference.

Present there were chairmen of provincial Party committees, officials of ministries, national institutions and armed forces organs, faculty members and students of revolutionary schools, and youth and students of Pyongyang.

Amid the playing of the welcome music, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un appeared at the platform of the conference with war veterans.

All the participants raised stormy cheers of "hurrah!" in great reverence and trust in Kim Jong Un who represents the might and dignity of Juche Korea and the symbol of invincibility.

Kim Jong Un warmly acknowledged the war veterans, genuine patriots who made an immortal contribution in the country's history of victory in the war.

Rodong Sinmun on Monday dedicates an editorial to the 67th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

Noting that the heroic fighting spirit displayed by the generation of war victors serves as noble ideological and moral treasure of Juche Korea, the editorial says:

The indomitable spirit of defending the country displayed by the brave soldiers during the war is the great one representing the era that inherited the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, and the banner instilling patriotism into the minds of all the service personnel and people and encouraging them to perform heroic feats.

The generation of war victors is the true fighters who devotedly defended the leader as they showed in practice that the guidance of the leader should be upheld with loyalty in order to defend and glorify the dignity and honor of the country.

They are also indomitable fighters who proved the truth that no one in the world can overpower the people full of trust in and love of their own things.

And they are the heroes who taught that the people with strong mental power can work miracles.

The Korean people are the revolutionary optimists strong in faith who fought a life-and-death battle against formidable enemies with the conviction that they could surely win a victory in the war as they were led by President Kim Il Sung, whenever the situation turned extremely unfavorable during the war.

Brave soldiers of the People's Army blocked the enemy's pillboxes with their breasts and destroyed the enemy's planes and tanks in the spirit of becoming a human bullet. The Korean people produced and supplied weapons and ammunition by turning machine belts with hands and devoted themselves to increased grain production, wartime transport and assistance to the front, despite fierce bombing by enemies. Such spirit evoked the world admiration.

The enemies were stunned by the death-defying spirit the soldiers of the People's Army displayed to destroy the heavy cruiser "Baltimore" with only four torpedo boats, defend with only four artillery pieces an island for three days from the attack of fifty thousands-strong enemy and shoot down enemy jet planes with conventional planes.

The DPRK will always demonstrate its dignity as a country of miracles as the fighting spirit of the heroic war victors adds enthusiasm to the hearts of the rising generations.

Rodong Sinmun in an editorial on Monday says that the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) convened an emergency enlarged meeting as regards the dangerous situation in Kaesong City that may lead to a deadly and destructive disaster.

The editorial notes that it is the steadfast principle the WPK maintains in the anti-epidemic campaign not to allow any slightest discontinuity and uncertain thing in protecting the life of the people and to take strict measures to that end.

It goes on:

All Party and working people's organizations, power organs, public security and state security institutions, anti-epidemic and public health institutions, officials and the working people should display the unity of voluntary action in which all the people move as one under the monolithic guidance of the Party and the state by correctly implementing the directions and assignments of the Party Central Committee with high responsibility, loyalty and devotion.

We should make this occasion as the one, in which the might of our highly disciplined country strong with single-minded unity is fully displayed, by making all our thoughts and acts accordant with the intention of our Party Central Committee and devotedly implementing the decision made at the emergency enlarged meeting.

All institutions and citizens should remain alert and prepared in their work and life as required by the maximum emergency system.

Emergency anti-epidemic headquarters at all levels should further intensify the anti-epidemic work to correspond with the state emergency anti-epidemic system that has been shifted to the maximum emergency system.

The editorial calls on all the people to turn out as one in the struggle for thoroughly implementing the decisions made at the emergency enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee that run through with the ardent love for the people, and thus overcome the present crisis in the anti-epidemic work.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery to pay noble tributes to the fallen fighters of the People's Army on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

Supreme Leader of our Party, state and armed forces Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Vice Marshal Pak Jong Chon, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, and other commanding officers of the KPA.

He laid a flower before the cemetery.

He paid humble tributes to the heroes of the great years who defended the fatherland with costly sacrifice and laid a foundation of our powerful state.

Saying that the undying feats of the defenders of the fatherland in the 1950s, who provided the valuable mental heritage of the revolution amid the flames of the hard-fought war, would shine long in history, he expressed belief that the heroic fighting spirit of the fallen fighters would be carried forward as the eternal soul of socialist Korea.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, conferred "Paektusan" commemorative pistols on leading commanding officers of the armed forces of the DPRK on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

A grand conferring ceremony took place at the building of the headquarters of the Party Central Committee on Sunday afternoon.

The Supreme Leader came to the venue of the ceremony.

All the participants made a salute of best wishes to the Supreme Leader who is opening up the great heyday of building the revolutionary army of the Party with his gifted military wisdom, outstanding military idea, superb strategy and refined commanding art.