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Many people, called meritorious persons of socialist patriotism, devote their all for the country and people. They all have one thing in common with each other in the path of life.

It is that all of them do not hope for any reward for their devotion.

The same is true with Jo Yong Ok, a workteam leader of the Suchaebong Fishery Station in the city of Rason. 

With members of her workteam she built the processing ground, quick-freezing room and 100-ton capacity storehouse and always overfulfilled their plans.  

And she prepared a large amount of supplies by herself and sent them to major construction sites and led a young man, a black sheep of her workteam, with sincerity to become a labour innovator loved by the collective. 

Members of her workteam say that Jo Yong Ok was most pleased when she did something helpful to the country and something good for the collective.

She became a member of the Workers’ Party of Korea in her 20s when she was a girl by performing a feat at the construction site of Kwangbok Street in Pyongyang. At that time her father, a war veteran and honoured disabled soldier, said to her that during the Fatherland Liberation War the Korean People’s Army soldiers devoted their youth and lives to the Party and leader, the country and people, but none of them expected to receive any reward for it and that it is not an expression of patriotism to do anything to get a reward. 

Jo Yong Ok has implanted the meaning of her father’s request firmly in her mind.

The mother of three sons, she sent all of them to the army for national defence. She has earned the love and respect of many people as a meritorious person of socialist patriotism and activist in the traits of assisting the army.