O Jung Hup was a hot-blooded loyal subject who distinguished himself in devotedly defending the leader in the period of the arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and a competent commanding officer of the Korean people's revolutionary army. He died a heroic death during a battle in northeastern part of Mt. Paektu on December 17, Juche 28 (1939).

Minister Kim Il Chol of the People's Armed Forces in a memorial address described O Jung Hup as a prototype of communist revolutionaries who, guided by transparent revolutionary outlook on the leader, held in high esteem the great Kim Il Sung as the leader of revolution and defended him at the cost of his life. 

In the period of the hard-fought anti-Japanese war he always took the lead in guaranteeing the safety of commander Kim Il Sung in every way and displayed matchless self-sacrificing spirit and performed heroic exploits in the efforts to carry out Kim Il Sung's revolutionary lines and operational plans, Kim Il Chol said, and continued:

O considered Kim Il Sung's ideas and lines most reasonable, made a deep-going study of them, unconditionally defended his ideas anytime and anywhere and waged an uncompromising struggle against the phenomena contrary to his ideas and lines. O was a regimental commander who asked Kim Il Sung to give him a new task after carrying out Kim Il Sung's orders and instructions, a military commanding officer who was happier to do difficult things, not easy ones. Kim Il Sung, when recollecting O, spoke highly of O Jung Hup's great achievements, saying that to him O Jung Hup was a revolutionary comrade-in-arms and a like-minded man and, at the same time, a savior of his life.

Valuing the revolutionary forerunners most and putting them forward, the respected Kim Jong Il said O Jung Hup was a role model of revolutionary soldiers unfailingly loyal to Kim Il Sung and a vanguard fighter who devotedly defended the leader. He made sure that the whole party, the entire army and all the people learn from the noble revolutionary spirit and traits of O Jung Hup and people's army units conduct "O Jung Hup's 7th regiment title movement."

O's lofty revolutionary spirit and ennobling traits serve as a precious example that tells the people to adopt what attitude and stand and what faith and constancy in upholding the leader of revolution. Meanwhile, a wreath was laid before his bust at the Mt. Taesong revolutionary martyrs cemetery to commemorate his death anniversary. Papers here today run articles on his death anniversary.