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 young people, who volunteered to work at difficult and challenging sectors of socialist construction and started with a clean slate, and blessed them with bright future on August 30.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary for organizational affairs of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ri Tu Song, department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Mun Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League.

He held hands of each of the young people who volunteered to work at difficult and challenging sectors with high awareness and enthusiasm to glorify their youth in the van of the worthwhile era, highly estimating their deeds and mental world.

Those young people, who had been lagging behind others, realized the gratitude of the motherly Party and the socialist system that embraced and brought them up and started with a clean slate by volunteering to work at the most difficult and challenging posts. He said he fully supports them and praised their deeds as laudable and admirable ones.

The production of lots of young people heartily responding to the call of the Party and the revolution in the era when an arduous struggle is being waged to bring about a new victory of the revolution is an expression of the advantages of the socialist system in our country, and a demonstration of the noble view on life and future of our youth, he said, adding it is the best pride, asset and motive power for the development for a Party making revolution to have its reliable successors, reserves and promising main force.

He earnestly called on the young people to become a kindling spark and a great fire in the on-going gigantic general advance and to become youth heroes endeavoring to bring about prosperity and progress of the country with gem-like patriotism.

He underlined the need for the Party organizations and youth league organizations to take warm care of the work and life of young people, who volunteered to areas and units under their responsibilities, and to support them and push them forward so that they can lead the most excellent lives.

He had a photo taken with those greatly excited young people, wishing the bright future for the dependable youth who responded to the call of the Party in practice out of firm faith in socialism.

He expressed expectation and belief that all the young people who volunteered to the pilot sectors of socialist construction would glorify their precious youth with heroic feats for the Party and the country and keep to the path of patriotism to the last, true to the pledges they made at the new starting line of their lives.