Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- All the people across the DPRK significantly greeting the historic National Liberation Day in the course of the sacred patriotic struggle to usher in the era of comprehensive prosperity of our socialist state pay the highest tribute and eternal glory to President Kim Il Sung, the national liberator and peerless patriot.

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, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on August 14 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation.

Present there were Pak Thae Song and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and other senior Party and government officials, chief secretaries of provincial committees of the WPK, Party and administrative officials of commissions and ministries and commanding officers of armed forces organs.

The flower basket presented by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Also laid were flower baskets in the name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to the statues of the great leaders.

Kim Jong Un visited the halls where the great leaders lie in state and paid tribute to them with the most reverence.

Saying that the national liberation feats performed by the President who liberated the country through the 20-year-long anti-Japanese war, overcoming hardships and trials, and provided the glorious history and traditions of the ever-victorious Korean revolution will be immortal along with the victorious advance of the cause of Juche, he expressed his solemn will to glorify the country, which is associated with the noble desires of the great leaders, as the most powerful and dignified country in the world and the people's ideal land.

All the participants pledged to remain loyal to the ideology and leadership of Kim Jong Un, who is ushering in a new era of great victory and great change of socialist Korea, and make a single-minded efforts to accomplish the historic cause for the comprehensive rejuvenation of our state and the promotion of the people's wellbeing. -0-