Last year, too, young people across the country volunteered to work on the major fronts of socialist construction.

Those in South Hwanghae Province offered to work at the socialist countryside with high enthusiasm for making a breakthrough in the van of the implementation of the rural revolution programme in the new era.

Those in North Hamgyong Province and Taean District of Nampho Municipality volunteered to work at metallurgical and machine-building industry factories and enterprises with a determination to play a big role in the struggle to secure a definite practical guarantee for carrying out the five-year plan in the Chollima spirit in the new era.

According to information available, at the beginning of last year alone, many young men and women including the youth league members in South Phyongan, North Phyongan and South Hamgyong provinces offered to work in different economic sectors like the construction brigades of cities and counties and ridgeway and road platoons.

Filled with enthusiasm to perform great feats in their youthful days, members of the young vanguard in Kangwon, North Hwanghae and Jagang provinces volunteered to work at the Songnam Youth Mine of the Pukchang Area Youth Coal-mining Complex.

The deeds of young people who set their revolutionary posts in difficult and labour-consuming sectors of their own accord vividly showed the beautiful outlooks on life of new generations who find their worth and pride in the drive for the prosperity of the country.

Last year, more than 200 graduates of universities of education and teachers training colleges volunteered for branch schools on islands and in mountainous areas and rural schools.

Among them were young people who had grown up at “pedigree” farms for the education of the rising generation after finishing primary and secondary schools for orphans under the loving care of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Discharged soldiers of Phyongsong University of Education and Phyongsong Teachers Training College who volunteered to work at schools in mountainous areas in Yangdok County together with their families are creditably defending the outposts of the educational revolution in the spirit of soldiers.

They believe that there can be geographically far-off and sequestered places on this land, but there can be no place where the love of the Party fail to reach, and they are determined to devote themselves to upholding the Party’s intention.

University graduates, who studied to their heart’s content thanks to the benefits of the advantageous socialist education system, are pooling their wisdom and passion in order to make the clear voices of children reading textbooks and their happy laughter resound more loudly at branch schools on islets and schools in mountain villages and rural areas.

In July last year, a natural disaster hit the DPRK, leaving many people homeless.

In response to the appeal of the Party calling on young people to build houses in the city of Sinuiju and Uiju County, North Phyongan Province, a hot wind of volunteering was raised across the country, thus bringing the number of volunteers to nearly 300 000 in less than a week.

Among them were not only young workers but also special-class honoured disabled soldiers who had worked hard at every workplace with their utmost sincerity.

The commendable deeds of young patriots, who volunteered to work at the outposts of socialist construction by subordinating their dreams and ideals to the undertakings for the country, though different from each other in native place and hope, epitomized the true image peculiar to the Korean youth in the present era.