Core of National Defense, Pioneers of Great Change, Creators of People’s Happiness

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/24142

 2026.4.25.

94 years ago, President Kim Il Sung clarified the truth of the revolutionary struggle that we should fight against the armed enemy with arms and founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) – the first Juche-type armed force in our country.

The founding of the KPRA led to the start of the nationwide war of resistance against Japan by means of armed struggle and the accomplishment of the historic cause of national liberation.

Waging arduous and bloody battles, the KPRA created the great idea, mental sprit and tradition which can firmly guarantee the lifeline of our revolution and continue the invincibility of our country, such as the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude, and revolutionary optimism.

After liberation, our revolutionary armed forces was strengthened and developed into a regular armed force inheriting the brilliant traditions created during the anti-Japanese armed struggle. They have now grown into an army strong in ideology and faith and an elite revolutionary army which takes full responsibility for defending the country and carrying out socialist construction.

Led by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, our revolutionary armed forces are now in the heyday of their development.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un wisely led our revolutionary armed forces to fulfill their honorable mission and duty assumed as the core of the national defense. He put forward original army-building ideas and lines and launched an intensive drive for establishing military discipline. He also fired the enthusiasm for conducting mass movements under actual war conditions including the movement of Guards Unit and the movement for becoming crack shots.

Under his leadership, our revolutionary armed forces have assumed the honorable mission as the pioneers of great change and creators of people’s happiness to fully demonstrate their patriotic zeal and high spirits in all fields for implementing the Party’s policies and plans. They continue to perform feats that transform the country’s appearance and create homes of happiness for the people.

They are the invincible ranks of strong soldiers and the great creators transformers that follows the outstanding leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. With this revolutionary army in the vanguard of our revolution, it won’t take long to realize the bright future of comprehensive national prosperity.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at Inauguration Ceremony of Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at Overseas Military Operations

 

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Officers and combatants of the overseas operations units of the Korean People’s Army, who are here by accomplishing a sacred mission and earning invaluable honour,

Officers and soldiers of the People's Army,

Bereaved family members of the martyrs,

Citizens of Pyongyang,

Soldier-builders, officials and creative workers, who have wonderfully completed this important and responsible construction project,

Members of the official delegation of the Russian Federation on a visit to Pyongyang to share this significant moment with us, as well as dear friends,

Comrades,

Today we are holding the ceremony of inaugurating the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations that will tell forever the heroic feats and ennobling spirit of the proud sons of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, who sacrificed their precious lives in the sacred battles for justice and dignity.

Our motherland has built a monument in the capital city, which the combatants so dearly cherished in their hearts and always respected, to honour their precious lives and soul, and is greeting the moment of embracing them.

Everyone of this country has waited for this day.

As the bereaved family members, seeing here from a stone's throw away, have waited for the day when their beloved ones would be embraced, the comrades-in-arms of the martyrs, all the officers and soldiers of our army and all the people of our country have longed to see the place where they will lay flowers to wish for the martyrs' immortality, appreciating with infinite ennobling feelings the heroic and precious features of our army they did not fully realize in the past.

Thanks to this ardent wish and sincerity, this museum, where the martyrs will live forever as true and proud sons of their country, has been built.

Thus has been achieved my wish to bring back all our officers and soldiers, who dedicated their precious lives too early, cover their bodies in the national flag and bury them in their motherland, the wish of other officers and soldiers of our army, as their comrades-in-arms who performed military service with them while braving the hail of bullets and gunfire, to pay their warm respect to them and the wish of all other people, as citizens of this country, to offer gratitude and honour to their defenders.

On behalf of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, I extend heartfelt thanks to the officers and soldiers of the construction units of the army at all levels and officials and creative workers of the relevant units, who have devoted unsparing efforts and wisdom for the construction of this museum in reflection of the earnest wish of all the people of the country and the officers and soldiers of the entire army to add lustre to the precious lives of the martyrs for all eternity.

I offer my thanks to the dear comrades of the delegation of the Russian Federation who are here with the feelings of warm tribute and solemn obligation from the people of the fraternal country.

Comrades,

Today marks the first anniversary of the end of the operations for liberating Kursk.

The soldiers of Korea and Russia, who are faithful to the ideal of justice, fought in the same trench shoulder to shoulder to defend peace and national sovereignty, and achieved a result decisive in checking the resurrection of fascism and frustrating the hegemonic forces' ambition for a war.

The operations were military activities conducted in one region in a few months, but the strategic significance of the result is very great.

Justice and injustice have always co-existed in the whole history of mankind, and the confrontation between them has been acute all the time. But there has been no such a situation as that of today in which the forces of domination and tyranny attempt to destroy the desire for national sovereignty and freedom, after they emerged brazenly on this planet as the most shameless and aggressive ultra-rightist reactionary alliance, discarding any sleazy mask or veneer.

In the rigorous and crucial years when the undoubted demand of a country and a nation for its rights to political self-determination and development and the implementation of its obligations have become the target of tyranny, the armies of the DPRK and Russia demonstrated the strength of justice through their bloody struggle, fully aware of the noblest duties they have assumed for their countries and mankind.

The soldiers of the two countries have clearly proved that there does exist in the world a tremendous might capable of overturning the society of evils created by imperialism, by dint of the hearts afire with justice and death-defying strength, and that the tyranny of injustice can never conquer mankind.

In the course of this, the fine sons of the two countries have set examples of true friendship and dedicated their precious blood for the common aim.

There will be neither more sacred contribution nor more correct expression of obligation than sacrificing one's life.

In the sacred war to wipe out the Ukrainian armed invaders who blatantly violated the sovereignty and security of the Russian Federation, our fraternal country, and liberate the Kursk region, the overseas operations units of our Korean People's Army won the priceless victory by displaying matchless bravery, mass heroism, indomitable fighting spirit and noble self-sacrificing spirit.

Thanks to the valiant struggle of the Korean People's Army that repulsed and wiped out the aggressors, shoulder to shoulder with the Russian army, the hegemonic attempt and military adventure pursued by the United States and the West were frustrated.

Standing before us are the war heroes, who should line up here most honourably, with the national flag of dignity and glory in their hands, full of indomitable soul and faith which did not burn even in the flames.

Now everyone knows full well for what they dedicated their youth on the alien battlefields.

But it is scarcely known how each of them fell in what circumstances, for what they wished at the last moment of their lives and what requests they left.

To our remorse, we could not portray every detail of their last moments here.

Probably there will be no museum in the world which can exhibit such loftiness, purity and beauty without regret.

Our soldiers who had been inconspicuous, plain and simple in ordinary days demonstrated their merits most clearly in battles.

The powerful resistance and undaunted offensive they persevered with against all odds and to their death, their trait of not giving up executing the orders till the last moment of their lives, their matchless self-sacrificing spirit of bravely facing death and their heroic choice at the moment of life and death - all these were so unprecedented and legendary that they struck us with wonder before striking the world with wonder and that even the wartime generation would admire.

Every one of those ennobling sacrifices became a valuable stepping stone in the hard-fought battles for our army to hasten the day of liberation.

The symbolic monument at this museum is not a portrayal of a specific martyr; it represents the soldiers of the Korean People's Army, every one of whom is brave, and all the martyrs, who are heroes epitomizing the spirit and mettle of Koreans.

The world of a hero does not find expression in any distinguished feat alone, and heroic behaviour does not come out of any spontaneous impulse.

The fierce battles in the Kursk region were an extension and part of the service by our army for the Party, the revolution, the homeland and the people.

Their deaths were also a moment of the service.

They were all loyalists, patriots and genuine men no matter where they were killed and how.

They must have never imagined they might leave their country even once. They must have taken arms pledging to become a handful of dirt of their homeland when they had to die. However, they unhesitatingly went to the battle sites in a foreign country where their bodies could not be retrieved if they were killed. And when crossing the border they hardened their resolve to execute the orders at the cost of their lives, far from thinking about their native homes, parents, wives and children that became far away. This is too lofty to explain merely with the soldiers' sense of obligation.

As the photos and relics on display here in this museum show, none of them, though they were in an alien country, forgot the Party nor lived separated from the embrace of their homeland even for a moment.

The national flag they would look up to with a solemn feeling before charge while praying for the safety and prosperity of Pyongyang and swearing to defend the homeland, the pouch of soil from the homeland each of them kept in his chest as a reminder of its warmth, the letters they wrote requesting to believe that they would remain honourable before their homeland which had given life to them, as well as before their parents, wives and children, even though they could not return home alive, the letters of pledge that they would implement the orders at the cost of their lives and the blood-stained letters they wrote applying for admittance to the Workers' Party of Korea - these tell many stories about their praiseworthy choices and heroic deaths.

As they could not live separated from their country and they were inseparably bound with it in destiny, they did not expect any compensation, though they performed distinguished feats, nor any reward for their self-sacrifice through self-blasting.

They left only the request for carrying out the order given by the Party, as they fell in action shedding blood, and prayed only for their country's prosperity shouting "Long live Pyongyang!" as they died a heroic death.

What desire, if any, they had was to remain remembered by the Party and the country and, even if they failed to be remembered, they had no greater pride and happiness, if they could feel the self-satisfaction that they accomplished their combat missions given by the Party and the pride that they dedicated their all to the motherland.

Their final moments lasted for some minutes or some seconds, but that brief moment clearly highlighted their pure loyalty to the Party and the country and their maxim of true service.

The self-sacrifice expecting no compensation and the devotion expecting no reward - this will be the definition of the height of loyalty of our army.

Such pure-hearted loyalty comprises the root of extraordinary heroism, the sacred oath, the will to punish the enemy and the personality of the strong who regard even death as their honour.

As they were so loyal to the Party and the country, they could have the undying courage and the strength of charge far surpassing the law of human physiology, opt for their last that the world still fails to understand and display the scenes of laying down their lives for their comrades-in-arms.

The overseas military operations of our army were unheard-of activities conducted by the service personnel who upheld the order of the Party and the country not only according to the military discipline and morals of obedience and execution but also with their voluntary conscience and moral rights, the most sincere and beautiful men who burned their hearts with pure, strong loyalty and overcame the extreme limits with its infinite viability.

There was neither distinction between arms, duties, ages and military ranks nor difference between Party members and youth league members in their spiritual strength and feats.

The participants in the military operations lived in the world of heroes before becoming heroes after death and in the noble spiritual world of Party members before becoming Party members.

Not only the heroes who unhesitatingly opted for self-blasting, suicide attack, in order to defend the great honour, but also those who fell in the vanguard of charges and those who writhed in frustration at the failure to fulfil their duties as soldiers who were given orders, rather than in pain in their bodies torn by bullets and shells, cannot but be called the soldiers faithful to the Party, patriots.

It is said that for soldiers in battlefields, nothing is more honourable than feats and victories, but what is more sublime and valuable is the pure conscience dedicated to their Party and country and firm faith in them.

Our combatants knew that after they fell in action, their dead bodies might be left at the mercy of the wind blowing through the snow-covered forests in the alien land. However, they sacrificed their lives as they believed that their greatest honour was to contribute to implementing the orders and add to the prestige of their great country. If one tries to measure such an ideological feeling, both pure and beautiful, only with the yardstick of certain exploits, one will be underrating so many admirable soldiers' true feelings of love, tears and priceless sacrifices.

They are sons of our Party and our country, who, though fighting at the other end of the earth, could identify the roots of their lives only with such feelings of love and loyalty.

That is why we honour such intense loyalty to the Party and the country and the noble sacrificing spirit stemming from the loyalty - rather than any outstanding military exploits or feats - as symbols of our army's fighting efficiency and our country's heroism.

The memorial wall in this museum can be called an emblem of immortality for the martyrs who, though dead and gone, will live forever as shining examples for their fellow countrymen.

Glorifying the imperishable lives of the martyrs and their unchangeable soul, the stars on the memorial wall shine brightly day and night, and they will teach people the truth of immortality and help them understand the position and significance of this museum.

This museum is a colossal fortress in which the souls of these loyalists and their hearts burning with patriotism rest, as the whole world can see.

As a decoration dedicated to this land by our admirable sons, such a museum could not be set up even at a cost of millions of tons of gold.

As time passes, this museum will continue to bring the heroes closer to all the coming generations of our Republic, and our army's successors will warmly embrace the combatants, adding one page after another to the history of patriotism and loyalty lest their sacrifices be brought to naught.

The country supported by patriotic and loyal defenders will remain powerful and great for all ages.

Today's inauguration ceremony will be recorded in a page of history as a sacred event that has injected absolute immutability into our state's inviolable dignity and prestige.

Comrades,

In this museum we have recorded a new chapter in the history of DPRK-Russia friendship that was written in blood, the history of justice that was achieved at the cost of blood.

This symbolizes the steadfastness of succession and our will.

Our future is certain.

In order to defend national sovereignty and interests in the current rapidly-changing times, we should keep turning into a formidable rival to the enemy and we should unite and grow stronger to become formidable.

As I have mentioned on several occasions, we should develop ours into a genuine, devoted and powerful stronghold, always coping in united efforts with any crises irrespective of the time and place of their occurrence and of any change in the rules of war.

Peoples of the two countries aspiring after independence, dignity, peace and prosperity are desirous of this, and the history of fidelity and unity written in blood indicates this.

As that immortal group sculpture of the soldiers of the two countries shows, the times expect us to be always ready, to be able to devote ourselves and to be resolute like them.

In front of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations born with our history of resolution, history of justice and obligation, we get firmer in our determination towards the future.

Comrades,

Our army will continue to fight bravely for the dignity and honour of its motherland, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Along with the history of defence we are writing with the sacred sense of mission and fortitude, this museum will shine in the world and the martyrs will live forever in the brilliant rays.

Sincerely hoping that the precious lives of our people's proud sons, great soldiers, will shine forever, I declare the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations open. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.27.)

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Inauguration Ceremony of Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at Overseas Military Operations Solemnly Held

Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- The magnificent memorial museum of combat feats was erected in the best place of the capital city to praise the great heroic spirit of the brave Korean People's Army soldiers involved in overseas military operations who created the legend of miraculous victory unprecedented in history with ardent patriotism and loyalty to defend the sacred prestige and dignity of the DPRK.

The immortal edifice, which will convey forever the ideological and moral superiority, popular heroism and unrivalled bravery peculiar to the KPA displayed in the special military operations to liberate Kursk Region of the fraternal Russian Federation with the sacred mission and duty, is a symbol of the most righteous people and the strongest army of the DPRK and a great monument giving eternal vitality to the development of the DPRK-Russia relations forged and being consolidated at the cost of blood.

Comrade Kim Jong Un has put on the highest place of glory the excellent sons of the country who performed immortal exploits before the times and history and the generations to come with their noble sacrifices and heroic military feats. He energetically led the whole construction course of the memorial museum from its design and construction work to the arrangement of contents of combat feats and the creation of symbolic memorials so that the names and images of the war martyrs can shine forever as a group of eternal stars.

The monumental edifice, which shows the traces of life in battlefields and remarkable military achievements, made by the officers and soldiers of KPA overseas operation units, and their passionate pulsation and noble soul through the highest architecture and careful artistic portrayal, is associated with the boundless sincerity, reverence and noble moral obligation of our Party and government and our people and service personnel for the brave war soldiers, and it represents the heroism of our times and the invincibility of our cause.

An inauguration ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations was solemnly held on April 26, the first anniversary of the conclusion of the operations to liberate Kursk of the Russian Federation.

Pervading the ceremony venue were deep respect for and remembrance of the heroic war soldiers who had been unfailingly faithful to the orders of the country and dedicated their lives without hesitation to the dignity and honor of our great state.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the inauguration ceremony.

Present there were Jo Yong Won, Jo Chun Ryong, No Kwang Chol, and other senior Party, government and military officials, commanders of the KPA large combined units, officers and men of the overseas operations units and engineering unit, the bereaved families of the war martyrs, leading officials of the ministries and national agencies, the soldier-builders and creators who contributed to the construction of the museum, students of revolutionary schools, youth and students and citizens of Pyongyang.

Attending the ceremony were also Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, Andrei Beloussov, minister of Defense, and other members of the official delegation of the Russian Federation and staff members of the Russian embassy here.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the inauguration ceremony, all the participants broke into cheers of emotion, looking up to him, the peerlessly illustrious commander and great father who has trained the KPA into a politico-ideologically strong army without parallel in the world and into an invincible revolutionary army winning every battle and puts the lives of the heroic soldiers on the highest place of immortality with his noblest love and obligation.

Comrade Kim Jong Un met brigade and battalion commanders of the overseas military operations units who participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations.

He gave warm militant encouragement to all the commanding officers of the overseas operations units who fully demonstrated the outstanding fighting spirit and bravery peculiar to the KPA through skillful combat command and made contributions to glorifying the mightiness and inviolable authority of our state.

Looking up to Comrade Kim Jong Un embracing every one of the reliable commanding officers who advanced through the fierce gunfire in the van and giving warm paternal affection, the participants extended enthusiastic applauses.

The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the DPRK were played.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech in commemoration of the inauguration.

Expressing his deep emotion to have the inauguration ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations erected by the wish of all the KPA service personnel and the ardent desire and sincerity of the people across the country, he extended heartfelt thanks on behalf of the Party and the government to the officers and men of the construction units at all levels, officials of the relevant organs and creators who devoted their all efforts and wisdom to the construction of the museum.

He referred to the strategic significance of the operations for liberating Kursk, in which the armies of the DPRK and Russia faithful to the ideal of justice fought shoulder to shoulder in the same trench for peace and sovereignty, and to the unrivalled bravery, mass heroism, indomitable fighting spirit and noble sacrifice displayed by the DPRK people's excellent sons in the bloody battles to set a model of the militant fraternity.

He said that the overseas military operations of the KPA were the ones without parallel in history as they were conducted by the servicepersons who implemented the orders of the Party and the country with their own conscience and moral rights, the most sincere and beautiful persons who burned their hearts with pure loyalty and went beyond the limits with their infinite vitality, adding that today's inauguration ceremony will be recorded in the history as the one that gave absolute immutability to the dignity and reputation of our state.

He affirmed that the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations will shine all over the world and the martyrs be immortal in its bright rays, along with the biographies of defense written with the sacred sense of mission and toughness. Then he declared the inauguration of the museum, sincerely wishing that the precious life of the great servicepersons would shine forever.

All the participants kept in mind with great emotion that the noble spirit and mettle of the martyrs would be immortal enjoying the respect of rising generations thanks to the benevolent care of the great leader ensuring that the images and names of the martyrs, who dedicated their lives to the sacred war of justice, are etched in golden letters on the immortal monument.

Then, Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, read out a letter from Comrade Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, to the participants in the inauguration ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations.

In the letter, President Putin extended congratulations on the inauguration of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations in Pyongyang on the occasion of the first anniversary of the liberation of Kursk and expressed his sincere gratitude and high respect to those involved in the Kursk liberation operations and the fallen heroes, saying that the unprecedented feats the KPA service personnel performed by displaying their outstanding bravery and genuine spirit of self-sacrifice while fighting shoulder to shoulder with their Russian comrades-in-arms, will remain forever in the hearts of all the Russian citizens.

Minister of National Defence of the DPRK No Kwang Chol and Russian Minister of Defense Andrei Beloussov cut the inauguration tape.

A large number of white balloons flew up, reflecting the noble reverence for the heroic sacrifices and great exploits of the excellent sons of the DPRK people.

A ceremony of burying the remains of the war martyrs in the overseas military operations was solemnly held.

No Kwang Chol said that our precious officers and soldiers, whom we neither wanted to send nor lose, finally came to the warm embrace of the motherland they had so longed for and wanted to return even at their last moments, adding that their precious desire and faith as well as their undying feats will be preserved forever by the unanimous will and steadfast struggle of all the service personnel and people.

Comrade Kim Jong Un covered with earth the remains of martyr Kim Son Chol, hardly repressing his pain of loss and regret of not being able to bring back to life the genuine patriots and brave and passionate revolutionaries who sacrificed themselves unhesitatingly upon the call of the country.

Guards of honor of the KPA covered the remains of the martyrs with earth, praying for the souls of the great sons of the DPRK people and for immortality of the most genuine soldiers and the most genuine human beings.

Comrade Kim Jong Un recollected with reverence the last heroic moments of the brave soldiers who devoted their precious lives to the dignity and honor of the great motherland.

Amid the playing of music "Song about the Country", the historic moments passed to convey the world of noble love and obligation of the great father who, as the heaven of destiny embracing the stars of loyalty, gives the everlasting pulse of life to the martyrs who failed to return and takes care of the destiny and future of their kinsmen.

The bereaved families were in tears of emotion, looking up to Comrade Kim Jong Un who is grieving over the young heroes, who wished nothing but only the prosperity of the country and dedicated their lives, even though he provided the house of immortality pulsating with their souls and breath that cannot be mossed with time, beside the homes of the bereaved families who have just started to lead a happy life amid the respect and blessing of all the people.

Comrade Kim Jong Un once again paid warm tribute to the bereaved families who are regarding the noble life and glorious death of their beloved sons and husbands as proud and honorable and strongly overcoming the grief over the loss of the most precious persons.

A volley of rifles was fired, in reflection of the noble respect for the brave soldiers who showed through their admirable patriotic deeds how the KPA soldiers should live for the Party and the country and what they should leave before the country and brought invincibility of the heroic Korea to a higher level.

A wreath in the name of Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid at the Monument to the Korean People's Army Martyrs in the Special Military Operations.

Wreaths were laid in the name of the speaker of the State Duma and the minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

And placed were wreaths in the name of the Central Committee of the WPK and the Central Military Commission of the WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, the DPRK Cabinet, the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK and the three services of the KPA.

All the participants observed a moment's silence in memory of the war martyrs, the proud sons of the DPRK people who created a new history of great victory and indomitable heroic feats, to be immortal, for the country and the revolution and all the generations to come in the sacred war for defending justice, dignity and peace.

Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the museum together with major members of the official delegation of the Russian Federation, and senior party, government and military officials.

He laid a flower before the memorial wall where the war martyrs, who demonstrated the great appellation of the strong and the glory of victors with their loyalty to the Party and the country, ardent patriotism and popular heroism peculiar to the KPA, are shining as immortal stars, and paid high tribute to them.

Also laid there were flowers presented by members of the official delegation of the Russian Federation, senior party, government and military officials, the bereaved families of the martyrs and other participants in the ceremony.

Comrade Kim Jong Un looked round with deep emotion the photos and exhibits showing the boundless loyalty to the order of the country, ardent patriotism and the indomitable mettle with which they greeted even death as glory to defend the honor of the strong, which all the generations of the DPRK should keep forever and carry forward.

He visited rooms where the remains are enshrined and laid a flower before them.

He affirmed that the dignified figures standing in the front ranks of the KPA can not be seen again, but the soul and spirit of the martyrs, the defenders of the precious honor of the country, will serve as the symbol of the heroic spirit of the DPRK people and the banner of the mightiness of our army and powerfully encourage the victorious advance of the peoples of the two countries struggling for the common cause of independence and justice.

He went to the room of visitor's book and wrote: "The soul of the martyrs will be eternal along with the great honor they defended although their lives are buried with the earth with which they fought in their bosoms.

I would like to present 'the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations', the platform of honor, to the proud sons, officers and soldiers of this country.

Kim Jong Un

2026. 4.26"

Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and Minister of Defense Andrei Beloussov of the Russian Federation made entries in the visitor's book.

Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the exhibition hall of captured arms at the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats.

He expressed belief that the museum wishing for immortality of the war martyrs, who defended the dignity and safety of the fraternal peoples at the cost of their precious blood, proved the militant friendship between the DPRK and Russia and the solid fraternal relations of alliance between the two peoples and raised the dignity, honor and pride and glory of our generation to be admired by the coming generations, would shine forever as the house of national treasure of Juche Korea and the monument to the great alliance embodying the strong will and power of the two peoples aspiring after justice and peace.

Looking round the sanctuary of education in patriotism associated with the feats of the heroes who made a dash in response to the orders of the country and resounded with the echo of their beautiful life left by them at the last moments, all the participants hardened their firm will to build a prosperous state and the most powerful country in the world the martyrs desired so ardently, always remembering their noble soul and ambition.

The burning soul of the war martyrs will be immortal with the prestige and eternal prosperity of the DPRK, to be strong for all ages, along with the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations symbolizing the greatness of the DPRK people and bearing witness to the era of Kim Jong Un, the most heroic era of the DPRK. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.27.)