opinion

Many stories are told day after day about the commendable deeds performed by young people across the country.

The news about two primary school teachers, who devoted their warm love and sincerity to the lame pupils, still greatly impresses the people.

The teachers, who embraced without hesitation the disabled schoolgirls whose medical treatment even their parents had given up, are girls in their 20s.

The news about feats, innovations and virtues of many young men and women are reported every day. Young builders set new standards and records at major construction sites and youth shock brigade members make breakthroughs in coal and other mines across the country. Young people volunteer for difficult and labour-consuming sectors and a lot of young people become “girl mothers” and “bachelor fathers” for orphaned children and spouses of special-class honoured disabled soldiers.

Most recently, hundreds of thousands of young men and women have volunteered to work at the reconstruction sites of North Phyongan Province, in hearty response to the appeal of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

It is the noble aspirations and outlook on life of the Korean youth to devote their strength and enthusiasm, the greatest treasure of the youth, unsparingly to the prosperity of the country.

Today, the patriotic life of the preceding generations, etched in the glorious annals of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the Fatherland Liberation War and the socialist construction, is continuously carried on.