The respected Comrade 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 the participants in the Eleventh Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League on May 2.

Present there were Kim Jae Ryong, Ri Il Hwan and Ju Chang Il, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Kim Song Gi, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army.

The participants in the congress were filled with excitement and joy as they greeted a moment of enjoying the privilege and happiness they had wished even in their dreams at a time when they started the struggle for a new stage of change with redoubled enthusiasm and spirit and boundless pride and honor of performing feats as the advancing group and shock brigade in the vanguard of accomplishing the cause of our Party.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the plaza in front of the venue of the congress, the participants broke into stormy cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to the outstanding leader of the Juche-oriented youth movement, the benevolent father of the young people across the country.

Young man and woman delegates presented fragrant bouquets to the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un, reflecting their boundless reverence and wishes for him.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the newly elected chairman and vice-chairmen of the eleventh Central Committee of the youth league, shaking hands with them one by one.

He met the youth delegates, who have performed distinguished feats and displayed communist traits in achieving the prosperity of the country and glorifying the socialist system of our own style, and highly appreciated their efforts.

Acknowledging the enthusiastic cheers of the participants in the congress, he warmly congratulated them on the successful Eleventh Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League held amid special interest and expectation of the Party and the people.

In the past years, too, the ideas and ideal of the Party had always been the ones of the young people themselves and the course of building and developing our state had coincided with the course of their worthwhile life, but there has been no such era as the present one when high patriotic consciousness, towering enthusiasm for the revolution and valiant effort of the young people pervade all the sectors of socialist construction, he said, adding that the noble traits and iron-willed fighting efficiency of the young people unprecedented in any other country in the world are a proud symbol of our national power.

As time goes on, more pages written with blood and sweat of the youth are being added to the history of the country and the legendary feats of the young people are constantly being recorded along with the great era of change, he said, adding that this is the great pride of our Party and the great motive force of our cause. And he stressed that the strength and honor of the youth league, the powerful vanguard of patriotic youths, should be steadily boosted in the era full of unprecedented heroism and bravery.

The reality when our Party and revolution are faced with new and huge tasks requires more active advance and courageous role of the young people, he said, stressing the need to orient all the work of the youth league towards preparing all the youths as passionate patriots who regard it as their life goal to realize the Party's ideal and feel pride and happiness of their youth in attaining it.

Saying that the dynamic steps of the ranks of the young people firmly united under the banner of patriotism represent the lively motion of the new era of change and the vigorous advance of our cause, he emphasized the need to focus on strengthening the lower-echelon organizations so that the revolutionary spirit and fighting efficiency of the young people can be steadily inherited generation after generation and to cover the journey for implementing the decisions of the Party Congress with feats of the youth exciting the whole country through the dynamic revolutionary mass movement and the socialist patriotic movement, the precious foundation for training young people to be pioneers and shock brigade of the times.

Expressing belief that the youth league would dynamically inspire the young vanguard across the country to display their remarkably high revolutionary spirit and patriotic zeal in order to usher in an era of the more powerful and active Korean youth movement, Comrade Kim Jong Un had a significant photo session with the participants in the congress.

The participants burst into enthusiastic cheers again with the infinite excitement of receiving the great trust and affection of the great father.

Led by the chairman of the SPYL Central Committee making a pledge of faith to become the socialist patriotic youth glorifying the great era of Kim Jong Un, the participants in the congress enthusiastically shouted slogans of patriotic loyalty.

Comrade Kim Jong Un gave militant encouragement to the young vanguard cheering like an erupting volcano.

All the participants were full of ardent enthusiasm to carry forward in the purest and most thoroughgoing way the proud tradition of the youth movement, which has responded to the call of the Party and the country with heroic struggle, and perform fresh miracles and feats in every theater for great changes intended by the Ninth Congress of the WPK.