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Today, young people of the DPRK significantly celebrate the 79th founding anniversary of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League.

The SPYL is the only and popular youth organization of the young Koreans who carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered and led by President Kim Il Sung.

General Kim Il Sung established the tradition of the Korean youth movement in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and founded a Juche-oriented youth organization on January 17 1946 to rally young people of all social strata under the banner of democracy immediately after the liberation of Korea.

The young people, who had realized their inexhaustible strength, firmly rallied around the youth organization under the guidance of the General, unhesitatingly devoted their lives for the country and the people during the fierce Fatherland Liberation War, demonstrated the spirit of youth to the full in the vanguard of the post-war rehabilitation and performed world-startling miracles and feats in socialist construction.

In order to add lustre to the history of the Korean youth movement initiated by Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il issued immortal works to illuminate the way ahead of the youth movement in every period and at every stage of the revolution and called the youth a reserve fighting force and special detachment of the Supreme Commander.

To return the trust and love of the Chairman, the young people performed heroic feats in all parts of the country with their indomitable will and pluck even in the period of unprecedentedly appalling hardship in the 1990s and fully demonstrated the mettle of the Korean youth in the struggle to defend socialism and in the confrontation with the US.

The Korean youth movement is in its heyday thanks to the wise leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

The youth league, which developed into the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League on August 28 2016 along with the new era when the period of a leap forward in carrying out the revolutionary cause of Juche began, was renamed Socialist Patriotic Youth League in conformity with the character and tasks of the current youth movement at the tenth congress of the youth league held in April 2021.

Encouraged by the great trust of the Party which declared that the prosperous future will be accelerated by the dynamic efforts of young people, they built the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station despite the severe cold of the northern part of the country and a new modern street, a grand monument to the youth, in the Sopho area of the capital city.

It is the reality of the country that the young people who had been lagging behind others made a new start of their lives, many others volunteered to work in the difficult and labour-consuming sectors at the call of the country and those who do good deeds impressing the people are steadily increasing thanks to the General Secretary’s idea of attaching importance to young people.

It is the unanimous desire and will of the young people of the new generation to devote all their youthful wisdom and energy to the cause of building a powerful socialist country under the leadership of the General Secretary by steadily carrying forward the tradition of the preceding generations boundlessly loyal to the revolutionary cause of Juche under the wise leadership of the great leaders.