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The residents of Songchon County, who participated in the ground-breaking and inauguration ceremonies of the regional-industry factories in the locality in the presence of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, are filled with enthusiasm to bring about a new happy life before others by relying on the factories provided by the Party.

Song Un Sim, a woman living in neighbourhood unit No. 103 of the county town, said she has already realized what a happy life the Party Central Committee intends to provide to the locals is.

Not long ago, she envied her relatives living in urban areas and was inwardly anxious about the future of her two children.

But as the respected General Secretary bestowed benevolence on them Songchon people before others, she thought they would be really well-off in the future. So she has nothing to envy and worry about and will devote herself to making her locality well-off, she said.

The working people, who have become the masters of the new factories, are full of enthusiasm.

Rim Jong Guk, workteam leader of the Songchon County Daily Necessities Factory, is a graduate of Pyongyang University of Architecture. He said he previously envied his alumni who had been assigned to major institutions and modern factories and enterprises in Pyongyang and provincial capitals. Now, however, he has nothing to envy, and all the alumni envy and congratulate him as he works in a modern workplace that the respected General Secretary built and visited on the day of the inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories in the county, he exclaimed with joy. He then expressed his resolve to work hard to make the factory widely known to the whole country.

Noting that public sentiment of Songchon County is mounting unprecedentedly, Kim Jong Sim, an official of the county town office, said that many housewives volunteered for the workplaces to spruce up the county. Hundreds of women’s union members in the township area of the county have become employees of the county raw materials base station, she added.

Kim Sok Chol, vice-chairman of the Songchon County People’s Committee, said that he had previously prided himself on having worked harder than others for the improvement of the county people’s living standards, but now he felt quite ashamed of himself for failing to do many things that bring real benefits to the people.

“The Party built such smart factories. But if we officials fail to do our duty, the people will not benefit from them, and it will be a greater crime before the Party and the state and before the people and soldier-builders. Whether the Party’s warm love reaches the people or not entirely depends on the role of officials like we who are responsible for the people’s living,” said the vice-chairman.