DPRK celebrates victory in Korean War.

PYONGYANG, July 27 (Itar-Tass) -- The DPRK celebrates the 57th
anniversary of the Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War of 1950-1953 over ceremonial meetings and concerts.

During the Korean War, the country managed to withstand the troops of
the US and its allies.
The capital of the country is decorated with flags and banners reading
"Military Victory 7.27." The younger generation meets with the war
veterans. There were several ceremonies of laying wreaths to memorial
places. The Korean War caused many victims and was over as an armistice
was signed.
The ceremonies were organised at the monument to Kim Il-sung, at the
Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mountain Taesong, and at the Victory
Monument. The Korean Central News Agency says that the killing of 1.2
million civilians in the regions to the north from the 38th parallel was
the gravest crime of the United States. Almost 400,000 are still missing.
The situation in the Korean Peninsula worsened following the sinking
of South Korea's Cheonan corvette in the Yellow Sea in late March. The USA
and South Korea claimed the DPRK was responsible for the accident.
Pyongyang rejects this claim categorically.
DPRK's Minister of the People's Armed Forces and Deputy Chairman of
the National Defence Committee Kim Young-Chun said on Monday that the
country would strengthen its nuclear deterrence forces "to counteract the
growing threat from the United States of America."
In case of aggression from the USA and South Korea, "the DPRK will
mobilise all its colossal military potential, including the nuclear one,
and the Korean Revolutionary Army will attack heavily the warmongers'
citadels," he said. "It is worth reminding to American imperialists that
the aggressive war, unleashed by them, was over on July 27 will absolute
victory of the Korean people."
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