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Memorial Service Held for Revolutionary Fighter O Paek Ryong

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A national memorial service was held at the People's Palace of Culture today to commemorate the 20th death anniversary of revolutionary fighter O Paek Ryong. O was a man who single-heartedly remained loyal to President Kim Il Sung with true unblemished conscience and sense of obligation free from any affectation and changing attitude during the two hard-fought revolutionary wars and in the days of arduous revolution and construction at various stages and a genuine revolutionary who dedicated himself to implementing to the letter the Juche-oriented revolutionary line of the Workers' Party of Korea in the army building, national defence build-up, power construction and economic construction.
    Born to a poor peasant family in Hoeryong County, North Hamgyong Province (at that time) on October 24, 1914, he joined the Korean People's Revolutionary Army at the beginning of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. He grew up to be a platoon, company and regiment commander from an ordinary soldier, displaying matchless heroism and self-sacrificing spirit in the anti-Japanese war.
    After the country's liberation he devotedly worked to build the regular armed forces and defend the gains of the revolution, true to the line of building the army set forth by President Kim Il Sung. Assuming the heavy responsibility as divisional commander of the Korean People's Army during the rigorous Fatherland Liberation War, he contributed to repelling the U.S. imperialists' armed invasion and winning a victory in the war.
    He performed great feats in safeguarding the headquarters of the revolution and increasing the military power of the country, holding important posts at the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of National Defence, the Central Committee of the WPK, the National Defence Commission of the Central People's Committee, and other Party, state and military institutions in the post war period.
    Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, in his memorial address said that the revolutionary life of O Paek Ryong was a life of a genuine revolutionary who dedicated his all to the Party, the leader, the country and the people and to the victory of the cause of socialism and a worthwhile life which showed in practice how revolutionaries should uphold the leader and protect him.
    He underscored the need to carry forward the transparent outlook on the leader and the indomitable revolutionary spirit displayed by O Paek Ryong and other anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners and push ahead with the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche under the uplifted banner of Songun.
    The memorial service was attended by senior officials of the Party, the state and the army and anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters.
    A wreath was place before his bust in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt. Taesong on the same day.