The election to the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK took place on March 15, marking an occasion for further consolidating the people-centred socialist system of the Korean style and providing a powerful sovereign guarantee for the comprehensive development of the state.

That day the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine under the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex to vote for the manager of the coal mine, a candidate for deputy to the SPA, and encourage the miners there.

This shows that he sets great store by coal-mining sector and intends to value and put forward the working class in this sector.

During the period of the five-year plan for the national economic development set forth by the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in January 2021, the coal-mining industry enhanced the productivity of each pit as part of its efforts to put production on a normal track, playing its part in ensuring the sustainable development of the national economy as a whole. The Ninth Party Congress held in February this year decided to set it as a target of the new five-year plan to boost the coal output by 1.2 times.

Coal is the food of industry and powers the development of a self-reliant economy. Without coal, the production growth of electric power, metal, chemical and other industries is inconceivable.

Moreover, during the term of the Eighth Party Central Committee, metal, chemical and electric power industries readjusted and reinforced their Juche-oriented production lines based on coal abundant at home. Given this, it is necessary to increase the coal output in order to fully guarantee the growth of the overall economy.

Comrade Kim Jong Un bestowed utmost trust on the coal miners, calling them the hard core of the country performing the most valuable feats in the vanguard of state building. He expected that the miners would play the active role of a powerful engine in the lead of the struggle to attain the targets of the new five-year plan.

He set it as one of the important tasks to build up the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine into a standard one, where mechanization and informatization of the work inside its pits are realized and to transform all the mine villages into modern and cultured villages and towns within the term of the Ninth Party Central Committee.

This task is a gigantic undertaking of historic significance to give the country another facelift. Once it is carried out, a new life and new culture of the advanced working class will take its undisputed position in the centre of our times.

His 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, and an important political occasion that injected great vitality into the dynamic advance of the state towards its comprehensive development.

Kim Hyon