Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- 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 Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on May 19 on the lapse of one year since the demise of Hyon Chol Hae.

He was accompanied by Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the DPRK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un laid a flower at the grave of Hyon Chol Hae, recalling the sincere\and resolute appearance\and praiseworthy life of the revolutionary soldier who remained boundlessly loyal to the cause of the Party with his genuine revolutionary traits\and noble humanity\and devoted himself to the country, revolution\and people without any slight affectations\and selfishness.

He paid a silent tribute to the memory of Hyon Chol Hae, son of the great DPRK\and distinguished elder loyalist produced by the Juche revolution.

Seeing again\and again the picture of Hyon Chol Hae,

Kim Jong Un had a dialogue with him in his inmost heart for a long time, a beloved soldier whom he never forgot whenever the country was overcoming the worst difficulties\and ushered in a new heyday of bolstering up the national defence capabilities as he always accompanied Kim Jong Un as a source of strength\and courage.

Kim Jong Un said that the feats of the veteran revolutionary who devoted his whole life to the revolutionary cause of Juche will be immortal along with the history of our Party\and the country\and that Hyon Chol Hae will always be in the hearts of the Korean people\and the service personnel of the People's Army.

Kim Jong Un, before the memorial monument of the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery, paid high tribute to the martyrs, praying that their valuable life recorded in the history of the country would be immortal on the eminence of respect\and honor generation after generation. -0-