Respect for China’s fallen heroes

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Martyrs Cemetery of the Chinese People’s Volunteers in Hoechang county, South Phyongan Province in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on Friday.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un paid tribute to martyrs of the Chinese People’s Volunteers on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the armistice of the 1950-53 Korean War, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday.

Kim visited the Martyrs Cemetery of the Chinese People’s Volunteers in Hoechang county, South Phyongan Province in central North Korea, said KCNA.

He said with deep emotion that during the last Fatherland Liberation War, Chinese military went to the Korean front without hesitation despite many difficulties in the early period of building a country to help the Korean people in their cause of justice at the cost of blood and made an immortal contribution to the victory in the war, according to KCNA.

“The blood of the Chinese comrades permeated the mountains and streams, trees and plants on this land and the soul of the Korean revolutionaries settled on the vast land of China,” he was quoted as saying.

Kim said the China-North Korea ties are developing into “special and durable friendly relations unprecedented in history,” according to the report.