A proud frontrunner of new Korea

On May 1 1947, President Kim Il Sung arranged a lavish banquet for the exemplary workers across the country and highly praised the labour innovators with a warm smile, saying that all of them present there were all revolutionaries and patriots.

Holding the hands of a coal miner from North Hamgyong Province, he said he had suffered a great deal under Japanese military rule in the past, but today workers and farmers were masters of the country and it valued the coal miners most and put them forward first.

He then introduced him to the participants as the coal miner who fulfilled his task of the national economic plan for that year, which was worked out by the country for the first time, and a proud frontrunner of new Korea.

Reason for leaving office room early in the morning

On May 1 1997, Chairman Kim Jong Il went on a field guidance tour as usual.

He left his office room, saying he had to go to a place early in the morning. Officials earnestly asked him to have a rest for only a few hours in the morning as it was May Day.

He thanked them for it, but declined their offer, saying: May Day is a holiday and a rest day in the country, but for our revolutionaries, it should be a day of working more energetically than on usual days.

The soldiers of the Korean People’s Army mobilized in the construction of a pleasure ground on Mt Jongbang had done a good job for the people, he told the officials, asking them to go there with him immediately and hurried his way.

Until then, the officials did not know why he wanted to go to the pleasure ground on Mt Jongbang early in the morning.

He told them, who still did not see the reason why he left so early in the morning, that it was holiday that day and many people would visit the mountain to take rest. If he visited it when the people had rest, it would disturb their rest and so he wanted to look round it and return early in the morning, he added.

Banquet for workers

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, went round the hostel of employees of the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill which was completed in late April 2014.

The interior of the hostel was built perfectly.

The light pink and cream colours going well with each other in the corridor, large LCD TVs and karaoke instruments in the halls of every floor and neatly-furnished rooms made visitors feel cosiness in it.

To build a new hostel at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill was a promise President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il made to the workers of the mill, the promise they made was fulfilled correctly that day and he implemented another behest of them, said the General Secretary with a broad smile on his face.

At the dining hall of the hostel he said that it was better than the banquet halls or wedding restaurants and a large banquet should be given on the coming May Day. A grand banquet should be organized here in honour of the workers in celebration of May Day so that the whole country would be astir with the news, he noted, adding he would arrange it for them.

As a result, a banquet was held splendidly for the workers at the hostel of the mill, a workers’ palace, in celebration of May Day.