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I still remember the time when Chairman Kim Jong Il entrusted the young people with the heavy yet important task of building a large-scale hydropower station in the Paektu plateau.

It was easier said than done to build a large hydropower station in the Paektu plateau.

It was really an arduous struggle to build a power station there as it had to be done in the biting cold of Mt Paektu which is known to be so severe to freeze and break even a birch tree.

But in the face of all these trials and difficulties, we, shock brigade members, did not waver even a little.

The Chairman was very proud of us, members of the youth shock brigade, who were devoting their youthful energy and vigour at the foot of Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of the revolution, and regarded it as highly commendable, solving all problems arising in the construction of the power station and even flying a special plane to send padded clothes to the shock brigade members.

Like the parents who care more about the children living far away from them, he showed warm love for the members of the youth shock brigade. Not content with it, he visited the construction site of the power station on May 16, 14 years ago, on his way back from the historic foreign tour.

When officials tried to dissuade him, saying that the path was too rough for him to go, he told them that he would go to see us, young people, even by tank if he could not go by car, and left for the construction site decisively.

And he warmly shook hands with youth shock brigade members and young builders, saying that he heard they waited for him eagerly and that he also wanted to see them who came a long way to this rough place and were devoting their youthful energy and vigour to the construction of the power station.

With the same parental love shown by Kim Jong Il, the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un visited the construction site of the power station and put forward the youth of Mt Paektu as the masters of the youth power and heroes of the times.

Saying that he could see the intense loyalty of young people supporting the Workers’ Party of Korea in all parts of the construction site and he felt as if he obtained thousands of troops and horses, Kim Jong Un earnestly asked officials to give his regards without fail to the members of the youth shock brigade who are devoting their precious youth unsparingly to the construction site of the power station.

Indeed, the great trust and ardent love of the peerlessly great men were the roots of miracles and source of the unbounded spiritual strength which enabled us, young people, to create a myth about the heroic youth admired by the world.

Our young people, who have grown up under the great trust and warm love of the peerlessly great men, will build another proud monument to the youth, a new place of happiness to be envied by the world in the afflicted area in response to the call and expectation of the Party and the revolution with an irresistible struggle.