Top DPRK leader visits memorial site for fallen service members overseas: KCNA-Xinhua

Top DPRK leader visits memorial site for fallen service members overseas: KCNA

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-01-06 20:26:15

PYONGYANG, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the construction site of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations with senior Party and government officials on Monday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday.

Kim, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, said the memorial museum is "a grand monument to the times symbolic of heroism and bravery of the Korean people's excellent sons," according to the KCNA report.

The report added that Kim also dug the first spadeful of earth to initiate tree-planting efforts for the museum.