KIM JONG UN
Message
of Congratulations to the Participants in the Youth Day Celebration
Conference
and Other Young People across the
Country
August
27, Juche 101 (2012)
August 28 is the Youth Day, the
revolutionary holiday of the young people of Korea.
From the remote front line, I
extend warm congratulations and militant greetings to all the participants in
the Youth Day Celebration Conference and other young men and women across the
country, who are greeting the Youth Day in the first year of the new century of
the Juche era with a feeling of boundless jubilation and excitement.
The current events held in
celebration of the Youth Day are a grand political festival that demonstrates
the patriotic loyalty and stout mettle of our young people, who are adding
lustre to the proud history and tradition of the youth movement of Korea which
has won victory after victory on the strength of the idea of our Workers’ Party
of Korea of giving prominence to young people and are advancing straight
forward towards final victory under the Party’s leadership.
Celebrating the Youth Day in a
grand fashion amidst the concern and blessings of the whole country in the
rapidly-changing times and in the touch-and-go situation is of great
significance in encouraging to a fresh heroic struggle the millions of young people
who have turned out for the fight for defending their country and in the
efforts for building a thriving country.
Our Youth Day is the eternal
holiday of the Korean young people, which was instituted and exalted by the
great Kim Il Sung and Kim
Jong Il.
The great Kim
Il Sung, 85 years ago, formed the Young Communist
League of Korea by embracing young revolutionaries of a new type, rallied
behind the genuine vanguard organization young people of the miserable colony,
who had been wandering about not knowing which road they had to follow, and
trained them to be fighters spreading flames of struggle all over the world and
breaking the chains of colonial slavery in the sacred patriotic struggle for
the country and nation.
General Kim
Jong Il, with an aim to exalt forever the meaningful
day when the Korean youth movement originated and to hand down the precious
tradition of the Juche-oriented youth movement to posterity, designated the day
as the Youth Day.
President Kim
Il Sung and General Kim Jong
Il, who always paid close attention to training our young
people to be stout successors to the revolution, followed the unique policy of
giving prominence to young people and loving them throughout the periods of
their revolutionary leadership, and achieved imperishable exploits of perfectly
solving the youth problem for the first time in history.
Whenever the country and the
revolution were faced with important tasks, they, with trust in our young
people, raised them as the main force in the van of the most difficult and
challenging sectors and led them to display to the full their unquenchable
strength and wisdom.
The great Generalissimos’
infinite affection for and trust in the young people find expression in the
glorious name of Kim Il Sung
Socialist Youth League, the torch of the revolution they handed over to the
young people, the meaningfully-instituted Youth Day and the monumental edifices
named after youth.
In the history of our country
spanning 5 000 years, there have always been young people and some of them
earned fame; but never has there been an era of worthwhile youth like today,
when all young men and women, cherishing the high honour of being young
vanguard of the Party, perform feats for their country and fellow people.
The generation of Kim Hyok and
Cha Kwang Su, who shouted, “Long live the great Hanbyol!” and the generation of
Ri Su Bok and Jo Kun Sil, who dedicated without hesitation their youth and
lives for the sake of the one and only motherland, performed undying exploits
in the war for liberating the country and in the war for defending it,
displaying the honour of being members of the Young Communist League and the
Democratic Youth League.
Recorded in the biographies of
the heroes etched in the history of the country are the priceless, devoted
efforts of the young people in the Chollima era, who volunteered to work in
mountains, on seas and at new development sites in response to the Party’s
call, and of the young people in the Songun era, who demonstrated their
unyielding mettle on the first line of the grave struggle for defending
socialism.
There are still many young
people in the world, who, being pushed to the fringe of history, are forsaken
as troublemakers in society, but our young people, enjoying the unstinted
affection and trust of the Party and the people, are displaying the strength of
the most viable force that opens the bright future of their country and their
nation.
It is a source of great pride
and glory for our Party and people to have such a legion of excellent young people,
their reliable successors.
The Korean youth movement is,
indeed, the glorious youth movement of Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il,
which was started and developed by the great leaders.
I feel proud of and highly
appreciate our young people, who are now demonstrating to the full the heroic
mettle and wisdom of the Korean youth in the building of a thriving country,
singing the song of struggle and unity as in the days when the birth of the
Young Communist League was proclaimed in
the presence of
Kim Il Sung and holding aloft the torch of
the revolution handed over to them by Kim Jong Il.
Today our motherland has
started a historic march for final victory in the building of a thriving
country.
Our great motherland, a
powerful Paektusan nation, calls its proud sons and daughters who are seething
with youthful vigour.
Young people of today are a
dignified generation that has surmounted severe ordeals enjoying the benefits
of the Party’s policy of giving prominence to young people, a stout vanguard tempered
in the crucible of Songun.
Our Party expects that all
young people would give fuller play to the valour, sense of unity and fighting
power of the Korean youth in national defence and the current campaign for
building of a thriving country as befits the indomitable
young vanguard who grew up in the
embrace of the great Kim
Il Sung and
Kim Jong Il, by inheriting the heroic
fighting spirit of their revolutionary forerunners and seniors.
Our young people are the
point-men in the general onward march, who vigorously advance straight forward
following the Party.
The main mission of the
point-men is to dynamically open up the way for the advance of the main ranks
with the most thoroughgoing ideological spirit, with vehement charging ability
and at lightning speed.
If hot-blooded young people
march forward in elated spirits blowing bugles and beating drums, the whole
nation will become ebullient, the hot wind of leap forward will sweep across
the country and the prosperous morrow will be brought closer.
Today’s struggle for final
victory is a sacred patriotic one for building, by applying the great Kim
Jong Il’s patriotism, a dignified and powerful country
which fears nothing in the world and a paradise in which all people enjoy the
benefits of socialism.
The strength of the millions of
young people whose hearts burn with the great Kim Jong
Il’s patriotism is inexhaustible, and its explosive force is
limitless.
The building of a thriving
country is unthinkable apart from national defence.
Our young people must defend
their socialist country unto death by inheriting the heroic fighting spirit of
the defenders of the country in the 1950s.
The history of the great
victorious war shows that the greater one’s trust in and love of the country
is, the braver one becomes in the fight for defending it.
While recently inspecting the
first-line units that are in direct confrontation with the enemy, I felt keenly
again how excellent our young soldiers are, who safeguard the defence lines of
the country in trenches.
Now the reckless aggressive
moves of the US
imperialists and other reactionaries against our country have gone to the
extreme.
Should the enemy drop even one
spark on our territory, our revolutionary armed forces which have inherited the
tradition of great victory, never missing the golden chance, will immediately
deal an annihilating counterblow to completely destroy the aggressors and
achieve the historic cause of national reunification.
The service personnel of the
People’s Army must load the powerful arms of the mighty revolutionary Paektusan
army with surging hatred for the enemy and set the sights on the objects of
strike; when a decisive battle has to be fought, they must become fierce tigers
in the sacred war for national reunification and perform proud exploits.
If the enemy recklessly blows
war clouds over us, young men and women across the country must take arms in
their hands in place of hammers, sickles or pens, and turn out for an
all-people war, as the defenders of the country in the 1950s did, to annihilate
the aggressors at one stroke and staunchly defend their streets, villages and
schools.
Burning their hearts with the
will to annihilate the enemy, our brave young people should dynamically make
breakthroughs for advance at all the sites of building a thriving country.
Our Party is planning new
projects for national prosperity, believing in the great patriotic enthusiasm,
limitless mental strength and inexhaustible courage of our young people who
have cherished Kim Jong Il’s
patriotism and apply it in their everyday life.
“We will go through fire and
water in response to the Party’s call!”–this is the patriotic cry emanating
from the hearts of the millions of young people.
Hot-blooded young people should
have the merit of organizing any work in a big way and performing world-shaking
feats, like moving mountains and filling up rough sea at one go, with soaring
ambition and aim.
Now our young people are
devoting their precious youth without reserve in several major projects
including the construction of the Paektusan Songun Youth Power Station and
reconstruction of the Northern Railways which the Party has entrusted solely to
them; they are truly admirable and laudable.
I want to seat them on golden
cushions and pluck stars from the sky for them so that the world would envy
them.
By making fresh miracles and
innovations in difficult and challenging sectors of the building of a thriving
country, young people should become heroes who exalt the brilliance of their
country and their era.
All young people, regarding
their workplaces as positions for attack, should make the flames of Hamnam
blaze higher and wage a vigorous campaign for increased production with the
traits and mettle of the Korean youth, who like making a revolution and who
love working, so as to do a large share in fulfilling the national economic
plan.
It is our young people who
ought to stand in the vanguard of the effort to push back the frontiers of
science and technology for the industrial revolution in the new century.
Cutting-edge science and
technology is Height 1211 in the building of an economic giant.
Today our Party expects that
all young people would think and study and race against time with burning
patriotic passion so as to speed up the development of cutting-edge science and
technology.
The fact that young researchers
played the core role among the teams for the development of Ryonha machines and
artificial satellites, which are the pride of the nation, shows that our young
people who received Juche-oriented education have remarkable abilities.
Young people should hold aloft
the slogan “Let us open up a shortcut to final victory by breaking through the
cutting edge!” and briskly wage a brains warfare, a technological warfare, with
a global vision and self-respect due to a great nation, so as to become the
pioneers and champions of cutting-edge science and technology and preeminent
talented people.
Infiltration of reactionary
ideology and culture and psychological warfare are the major methods employed
by the enemy at present in their schemes for aggression, and their principal
target is young people.
The imperialists’ foolish
methods, however, will cut no ice with our young people who are equipped with
the most revolutionary ideology and awakened to their class consciousness.
They should become excellent
young people of the Songun era who love our own ways and things, are possessed
of beautiful and ennobling moral qualities, and strive hard to do good things
more for the benefit of society and the collective.
However difficult and
challenging their charge may be, they should take the leading role wherever
they are and brim over with joy and optimism, singing loudly, dancing merrily
and playing exciting sports games.
The youth league organizations
are the engine that leads the ranks of young people on the general onward
march.
The current work of the youth
league should be focused on giving full play to the inexhaustible strength of
the large contingent of young people by firmly arming every one of them with
the great Kim Jong Il’s
patriotism.
The youth league organizations
should build up all the primary organizations into units that are as
steel-strong as the organizations of the Young Communist League which
demonstrated their might in the flames of the anti-Japanese struggle, and push
forward all their undertakings in a novel and bold way as suited to the
characteristics of young people.
Our Party has placed young
people in the vanguard of the grand onward march, not merely to step up production
and construction at a faster pace; its main objective is to train all of them
into staunch revolutionaries and patriotic fighters tempered in the practical
struggle.
Officials of the youth league
organizations, keeping in mind that each and every young man or woman is a
precious comrade-in-arms of our Party which regards him or her as being worth
his or her weight in gold, should become reliable political workers and
enthusiastic commanders who inspire their charges to further efforts for
creation and innovation.
I feel confident as there are
the reliable ranks of our young people, the main force that would wage the
revolution with me till the day of its final victory.
Our young people will be
recorded in the history of the country as honourable defenders of their
socialist motherland, proud builders of a thriving country and its full-fledged
masters.
Giving prominence to young
people is the permanent strategic line of our Party and revolution.
A revolution that gives
prominence to young people who are sensitive to the new, are quite enterprising
and love justice and truth will always overflow with vigour and vitality and
surely emerge victorious.
Our Party will brilliantly
carry forward the outstanding policy of giving prominence to young people
pursued by the great Kim Il Sung and Kim
Jong Il and, by relying on their strength, hasten the
final victory of the historic cause of national reunification and the building
of a thriving country.
I extend warm congratulations
once again to our proud young vanguard, who demonstrated the unshakable
conviction and will of the successors to the Juche cause and the Songun cause,
running with the torches of the revolution from Mt. Paektu, the sacred mountain
of revolution, and Mt. Osong, the mountain symbolic of Songun, to Pyongyang
where the great Generalissimos lie in state, as well as other young people
across the country.
Fresh victory and glory will
always be in store for our young people who are advancing singing aloud March
of the Korean Youth.
I am in firm belief that our
reliable young men and women will redouble their efforts for the final victory
of the great cause of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, following the red flag of the
Party, and thus perform with credit their noble mission and duty before the times
and revolution, the motherland and people.
Kim
Jong Un
First
Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea
August
27, Juche 101 (2012)