The election of deputies to the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK took place at all the constituencies across the country on March 15 when the whole country was overflowing with the people's joy of greeting the historic day which would mark an occasion to further consolidate the people-centred socialist system of a Korean style and provide a powerful sovereign guarantee for the comprehensive development of the state.

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, visited the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine under the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex to vote at the polling station of Sub-constituency No. 48 of Constituency No. 150 for the election of SPA deputies.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the polling station, the coal miners and other local residents broke into enthusiastic cheers representing their boundless emotion and delight of being honoured to have him, whom they had longed to see even in their dreams, at their constituency on the meaningful election day for consolidating the supreme power of the DPRK as firm as a rock by the people themselves according to their will.

Kim Jong Un headed for the polling station, extending warm greetings to the coal miners for having increased coal production to positively contribute to the growth and development of the national economy with pure loyalty to the Party and the revolution, the country and the people and with gem-like patriotism.

He was courteously greeted by Ri Kyong Chol, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, and leading officials of the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex and the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine.

Accompanying him were Kim Jae Ryong, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Tok Hun and Kim Yo Jong, senior officials of the Party and the government.

Kim Jong Un received a ballot from the chairperson of the election committee and voted for Jo Chol Ho, manager of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine under the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex, who was a candidate for SPA deputy.

As he met and had a conversation with Jo, he warmly encouraged him, hoping that he would faithfully discharge his responsibility and duty as a genuine representative of the people, a person in direct charge of activities of state power and a political activist, deeply mindful that the trust and expectations of the coal miners and other residents there are just the earnest requests of the country and the people.

Then he made a historic speech to the voters of the coal mine.

All the participants were deeply moved by the impassioned speech of Kim Jong Un who most highly appreciated the pure conscience and unassuming efforts of the coal miners before the country and the times and unveiled a brilliant blueprint for transforming the coal mines across the country.

When he finished his speech, they raised enthusiastic cheers, offering their boundless thanks to the outstanding leader of the Korean revolution and the benevolent father of the people.

He learned about the conditions and production of the coal mine.

Underscoring again the importance of the coal-mining industry's mission and role in ensuring the stable and sustainable development of the national economy, he said that to shore up the coal front is a keystone of strategic significance not only in the implementation of the new five-year plan but also in the long-term development of the country. Then he continued:

As it is necessary to raise good crops for the living of the people, it is needed to increase coal production for the running of a state. The Party and the state should attach importance to the production of coal, the food of industry, and increase the state investment to it. Building up the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine into a standard one, where mechanization and informatization of the work inside its pits are realized, is a starting point of the long-term project to transform the material and technical foundations of all the coal mines across the country and the working conditions of coal miners.

Whenever I look back upon the arduous journey of our victorious struggle, I have first thought of the unassuming efforts of coal miners and always felt thankful to them. We should spare nothing for the coal miners. It is the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to turn, during its ninth term, all the coal-mining villages into modern, cultured villages and towns just like the Komdok area which has been ideally transformed in recent years. A short-, medium- and long-term strategy for realizing it will be discussed at an earlier date.

That day, Kim Jong Un had a photo taken with the coal miners, labour innovators and officials of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine in commemoration of his visit to the mine.

When the photo-taking was over, the enthusiastic cheers the participants raised again, looking up to Kim Jong Un, shook the mountains of the Chonsong area.

Warmly encouraging the coal miners full of great excitement, Kim Jong Un expressed his expectation and belief that the workers of the coal mine would glorify the first year of implementing the decisions of the Party Congress with proud successes in increased production in the redoubled and soaring spirit and filled with fresh confidence and optimism.

The workers of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine, deeply moved by the strong passion and affection, warm love and trust of the great father, firmly pledged to demonstrate their absolute support to the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK through patriotic efforts for increased coal production and reliably guarantee the prosperity and development of the country, bearing deeper in mind the sense of honourable mission of defending an outpost for the development of the self-supporting economy.

Kim Jong Un's visit to the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine marked a historic occasion that declared a fresh start for civilization and modernization of the coal-mining industry, finally breaking with its technical and cultural backwardness, and an important political occasion that injected great vitality into the dynamic advance of the state towards its comprehensive development.