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The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met the participants in the Eleventh Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League on May 2.

Present there were Kim Jae Ryong, Ri Il Hwan and Ju Chang Il, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Kim Song Gi, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army.

The participants in the congress were filled with excitement and joy as they would get the glory and happiness they had wished even in their dreams at a time when they started the struggle for a new stage of transformation with redoubled enthusiasm and spirit and boundless pride and honour of performing feats as the advance group and shock brigade in the vanguard of accomplishing the cause of the WPK.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the plaza in front of the venue of the congress, the participants broke into stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" looking up to the outstanding leader of the Juche-oriented youth movement, the benevolent father of all the young people across the country.

Young male and female delegates presented fragrant bouquets to the fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un, reflecting the boundless reverence and best wishes of all the participants for him.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the chairman and vice-chairmen of the newly elected Eleventh Central Committee of the SPYL, shaking hands with each of them.

He met the youth delegates, who have performed distinguished feats and displayed communist traits in their efforts to bring prosperity to the country and add glory to the Korean-style socialist system, and highly appreciated their efforts.

Acknowledging the enthusiastic cheers of the participants in the congress, he warmly congratulated them on the successful Eleventh Congress of the SPYL held amid special interest and expectations of the Party and the people. He said:

In the past period, too, the ideas and ideal of the Party had always been those of the young people and the course of building and developing our state had coincided with the course of their worthwhile life, but there has been no such era as the present one when extraordinarily high patriotic consciousness, towering enthusiasm for the revolution and valiant effort of the young people are definitely pervading all the sectors of socialist construction. The noble traits and iron-willed fighting efficiency of the young people that cannot be found in any other country in the world are a proud symbol of our national strength.

As time goes on, more pages written with blood and sweat of the youth are being added to the history of the country and the legendary feats of the young people are constantly being recorded along with the era of gigantic change, and this is a source of great pride of our Party and the great motive force of our cause. The strength and honour of the youth league, the powerful vanguard of patriotic youths, should steadily be boosted in the era full of unprecedented heroism and bravery.

The reality in which our Party and revolution are faced with new and huge tasks requires more active advance and courageous role of the young people. It is necessary to orient all the work of the youth league towards educating and training all the youths as passionate patriots who regard it as their goal in life to realize the Party's ideal and find pride and happiness of their youth in attaining it.

The dynamic steps of the ranks of young people firmly united under the banner of patriotism are just the lively motion of the new era of change and the vigorous advance of our cause. It is needed to focus on strengthening the basic organizations so that the revolutionary spirit and fighting efficiency of the group of young people can be steadily inherited generation after generation and to wage the dynamic revolutionary mass movements, the socialist patriotic movements, the precious nourishment for training young people to be pioneers and shock brigade of the times so as to make the journey for implementing the decisions of the Party Congress replete with the feats of the youth exciting the whole country.

Comrade Kim Jong Un had a photo taken with the participants in the congress, expressing his belief that the youth league would dynamically inspire the young vanguard of the country to display their remarkably high revolutionary spirit and patriotic zeal and thereby courageously usher in a period of greater boom in the Korean youth movement.

The participants burst into enthusiastic cheers again, being filled with the infinite excitement as they received the great trust and affection of the fatherly Marshal.

Led by the chairman of the SPYL Central Committee making a pledge of faith to become the socialist patriotic youth adding lustre to the era of Kim Jong Un, the participants enthusiastically chanted the slogans of patriotism and loyalty.

Comrade Kim Jong Un gave militant encouragement to the young vanguard cheering like an erupting volcano.

All the participants were full of burning enthusiasm to carry forward in the purest and most thoroughgoing way the proud tradition of the youth movement, which has responded to the call of the Party and the country with heroic struggle, and perform fresh miracles and feats in every theatre of the campaign for great transformation unveiled by the Ninth Congress of the WPK.