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'I will keep writing poems'

Date: 19/07/2025 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

I am not a poet.

But I wrote a poem.

The poem won a prize at a national prize lyric contest.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un saw several poems written by literary correspondents, including my poem “Builders of My Contemporaries”, in September last year.

I was deeply moved and really excited when I heard the news that the General Secretary saw the poem written by me, an ordinary worker, though he was busy with many state affairs.

Still it is a surprise for me.

Even now, people call me a “worker poet”, asking me how I could write such a fine poem.

Whenever I faced this question, I thought a lot about the secret of success.

It is not because I have an outstanding talent.

It is nearly one year since the glorious day. Sharing growing happiness with the people living in the times of sea change in this not so long period, I found the answer.

Poem is a paean to the times.

Now our country has grown incomparably stronger, the happy news about moving into new houses are heard everywhere in the capital and rural areas, villages have been turned into good places to live in and they are brimming with great joy of the people, and the country is growing younger and more beautiful.

I wanted to sing of my old comrades-in-arms, my contemporaries and young builders who devote patriotic efforts and passion at the construction sites of major projects for the prosperity of the country along with the change of times.

The era in which the people’s ideals are coming true and the reality of our socialist country which is resounding with the people’s laughter gave me poetic inspiration and enabled me to pick gemlike poetic words.

I will keep writing poems in this nice era when the people’s laughter rings out louder, our era when everything develops beyond recognition every day.

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