DPRK cherishes memory of Chinese volunteers in Korean War: state media

The people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea still lay to their hearts the great services of Chinese volunteers in the Korean War, the country's official news agency KCNA said Wednesday.

The Chinese People's Volunteers fought shoulder to shoulder with Korean soldiers in the same trenches in what the DPRK calls the Fatherland Liberation War, "fully displaying a self-sacrificing spirit and collective heroism," the agency said in a report.

The article also named several well-known Chinese volunteers who either died heroically in the battle fields in the DPRK or sacrificed themselves to save endangered civilians on the foreign soil.

The "great deeds and noble internationalist spirit of the Chinese People's Volunteers" in the 1950-1953 warfare "are still kept in the memory of the Korean people," the KCNA said.

"Indeed, the Korean War is a witness to friendship and cooperation fully demonstrated by the armies and people of the two countries... The great services of the Chinese People's Volunteers are shining along with the DPRK-China friendship," it added.

Four months after the outbreak of the Korean War, China dispatched the Chinese People's Volunteers to the DPRK in a mission to "Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea."

Source: Xinhua