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The participants in the Youth Day celebrations visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il lie in state, to pay homage on Aug. 27.

They entered the plaza of the palace, with the feelings of deep reverence for Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The participants made deep bows toward the portraits of smiling Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, representing the unanimous loyalty of all the young people.

They vowed to fly the flag of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League higher and fully display their might as a shock brigade in the van of the struggle to implement the decisions made at the 8th Party Congress by faithfully upholding in single mind the idea and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is opening up the greatest heyday of the Korean youth movement.

Celebrations of the Youth Day are being held with splendor here amid the deep attention and blessings by the Workers' Party of Korea and people.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un reposed trust in and bestowed favors on the youth by inviting the young people, who performed merits in the pilot sectors of socialist construction true to the decisions made at the 8th Congress of the Party, to the celebrations and sending them a letter of congratulations.

A meeting was held on Aug. 28 to convey the letter of congratulations sent by Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, to the reliable young people who volunteered to work in difficult and challenging sectors of socialist construction.

Attending the meeting were Ri Il Hwan, Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the C.C., WPK, Ri Tu Song, Department Director of the C.C., WPK, the young people who volunteered to work in the difficult and challenging sectors, officials of the Central Committee of the youth league, chairpersons of the provincial committees of the youth league, exemplary officials of the youth league and officials in charge of youth affairs.

The letter of congratulations sent by Kim Jong Un was conveyed by Comrade Ri Il Hwan.

In the letter of congratulations Kim Jong Un highly appreciated the laudable patriotic deeds of the young people, who volunteered to work in the difficult and challenging sectors of socialist construction in the stirring period when a dynamic struggle is being waged for the rejuvenation of our great state, demonstrating far and wide the revolutionary character and fighting mettle of the Korean youth who go through fire and water in response to the call of the Workers' Party of Korea, and extended warm congratulations and militant greetings to them.

He said that the young people, who left their dear homes and brightly illumined cities to settle in the workplaces, to which others do not dare to go, and in other places strange to them, with the same dream and ideal of supporting the Party's intention, are a great pride of socialist Korea and source of its great strength, as well as young patriots of our era, stressing that the remarkably soaring enthusiasm for volunteering by young people after the Eighth Congress of the Party is an expression of their outlook on beautiful life.

Saying that a state with a huge army of young people, who stoutly carry forward the revolutionary spirit and fighting stamina created by their preceding generations, advances by leaps and bounds full of youthful vigour without knowing any senility for ever, he expressed conviction that the communist society, which the hot-blooded young revolutionaries pictured in their minds at the beginning of the Korean revolution, will turn into reality without fail thanks to the unflinching struggle of the patriotic young people boundlessly loyal to the call of the WPK.

Firmly believing that all the young people, who volunteered to work in the difficult and challenging sectors, will further heighten the patriotic zeal and fighting spirit and exalt their honour of being heroic youth who will remain in the memory of their motherland and fellow people in the vanguard of the advancing rank as befits true sons and daughters of the Party, he wished a bright future of the beloved young people.

Oath-taking speeches were made at the meeting.

The speakers said that the letter of congratulations sent by the respected General Secretary, every paragraph of which instills the great pride, self-confidence and revolutionary enthusiasm of the patriotic youth into their hearts, is the blessings of great love offered by him to all the young people across the country who glorify their precious youthful days, deeming it their biggest honor and pride to remain loyal to the Party and the country and dedicate themselves to them.

Then, led by Mun Chol, Сhairman of the C.C., the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, all the participants solemnly vowed to the respected General Secretary to cherish such honor as the best assets of their careers and fully demonstrate the mettle of the true sons and daughters of the WPK and the socialist patriotic youth in every worksite for implementing the decisions of the 8th Congress of the WPK.

Dancing parties of youth and students for celebrating the Youth Day took place in different parts.

Venues of the dancing parties, the plaza of the April 25 House of Culture and the plaza of the Arch of Triumph, were full of young people greeting the 30th Youth Day.

Circle dance started as song "Glory to General Kim Jong Un" was played.

Dances to tunes of songs like "Our Comrade Kim Jong Un" and "Cheers of the People" represented the deep reverence for the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who drastically increased the position and role of young people in the new era of building a great powerful country and repeatedly bestowed great loving care and favor on them.

Adding vigor of vibrant youth were songs reflecting the strong spirit of young people to open up the breakthrough at the sites of a great surge.

Songs representing the will of young people to firmly carry forward the tradition of loyalty and patriotism displayed by the young people of the preceding generation revved up the atmosphere of the dancing parties.

There were similar dancing parties in other parts of the country including Sinuiju, Haeju, Kanggye, Hyesan and Chongjin.

An evening gala of youth and students was held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Aug. 28.

The evening gala was watched by Ri Tu Song, Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Mun Chol, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, officials of the youth league and the participants in the Youth Day celebrations.

When the song "Glory to General Kim Jong Un" was played, the evening gala began.

The participants in the gala danced, paying the highest honour and sending the warmest greetings of gratitude to the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a golden age of the Korean youth movement while training the youth ranks as a group of steadfast patriots and the Party's reliable detached force devoting themselves to the prosperity of the socialist country.

While watching the youth and students dancing the lilting dances, the audience felt confident that immensely rosy is the future of the country glorifying the praiseworthy era of youth in the blessings of the great sun.

When the atmosphere of the evening gala was revved up, the nocturnal sky was alight with fireworks.

The evening gala reached its climax when the song "We Will Defend General Kim Jong Un with Our Lives" was played in the square where the flags of the DPRK and the flags of the youth league were fluttering.

Singing the song of devotedly defending the Party Central Committee in chorus, waving red flags vigorously, all the participants were flooded with the zeal of loyalty with which to repay with miracles and feats the great benevolence of the respected General Secretary, who sent a letter of congratulations of love and trust to the youth and makes the lives of the youth the most praiseworthy.