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On March 15 the workers of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine voted for a deputy to the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly in the presence of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un and listened to his meaningful speech.

“I would also like to take this opportunity to extend warm greetings to the miners' wives and mothers who are making sincere, devoted efforts for the country's coal production, sharing one mind with their husbands and children, and also to the retired meritorious miners,” he said in the speech.

Even at present, women in Chonsong dearly cherish the emotions and excitement they felt that day.

“I can still vividly remember the day when my two daughters had a photo taken with the respected General Secretary,” said Jang Sun Hui, a woman living in Chonsong Workers’ District No. 2 in Unsan County.

Both of her daughters volunteered to work at the coal mine after graduating from middle school. Then, just a few years after that, they participated in the photo session after voting for the deputy to the SPA.

Although they were just rookies in the coal mine, her daughters had the same honour of being called the hard core of the country performing the most valuable feats in the vanguard of state building, with the coal miners who have mined coal all their lives or through generations. That day, out of joy, she inspired her daughters to work much harder than others to repay the trust of the respected General Secretary without fail.

Pang Yong Mi, a woman living in Chonsong Workers’ District No. 1, has always taken the lead in the work for coal miners, out of a desire to be a proud daughter-in-law, wife and mother before her father-in-law, a good ex-coal miner, her dear husband who loves his job and her three children. Always thinking of a pit where her husband was working before her family, she has devoted herself to the work for coal miners. She has wished only for increased coal production.

Regarding the work for coal miners just as that for the country, she has wished to become a woman in Chonsong known by the General Secretary. Her children know this and the second son of hers wrote in his diary during his middle school days as follows:

“My mom wears the brightest smile on the day of her visit to coal miners.”

Pang hardened her resolve to live as a proud woman in the coalfield to repay the loving care of the respected General Secretary who visited the coal mine to give such warm congratulations to the coal miners as if he had read her mind.

Cha Yun Sil, wife of the manager of the coal mine who spent most of his time in the pits, seeking no family comforts, shared joy and sorrow with her husband over the results of coal production.

Then, the husband was nominated as a candidate for a deputy to the SPA and the respected General Secretary personally voted for him.

At that time, Cha felt as if she had been the happiest in the world. She has since devoted herself to helping her husband with his work.

The father of Hwang Sun Hui, a woman living in Chonsong Workers’ District No. 2, was one of the developers of the coal mine. As he wished, his family members have worked at the coal mine for three generations, taking the greatest pleasure in voluntarily doing things, big or small, conducive to the prosperity of the country.

True to such a family tradition, Sun Hui has also put her heart and soul into the work for coal miners, always thinking of the coal mine.

It is the unanimous desire of the women in Chonsong to help increase coal production invariably and selflessly.