View of the venue of the national meeting or rural youth workteams and sub-workteams in Pyongyang on March 12, 2018 (Photo: KCNA).
A national meeting of youth work teams was held on March 12 (Monday) at the People’s Palace of Culture. Among those in attendance were DPRK Vice Premier Minister of Agriculture Ko In Ho [Ko In-ho], Workers’ Party of Korea [WPK] Workers and Social Organizations Department Director Ri Il Hwang [Ri Il-hwan], Youth League Central Committee 1st Secretary Pak Chol Min [Pak Ch’o’l-min], along with other DPRK Cabinet, rural management committee and Youth League officials.
DPRK Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture Ko In Ho (L) and WPK Workers’ and Social Organizations Department Director Ri Il Hwan (R) (Photo: KCTV).
Pak Chol Min delivered a report in which said that the “the movement of rural youth workteams and sub-workteams has developed into a powerful mass movement in the struggle to build an economic power and improve the people’s living standard under the unfurled banner of the theses on the socialist rural question by the initiative and wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung [Kim Il-so’ng], leader Kim Jong Il [Kim Cho’ng-il] and respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un [Kim Cho’ng-u’n].” He referred to “to the fact that more than 1 400 youth workteams and subworkteams have become model, twice or thrice model youth workteams and subworkteams in the flames of the movement” and he stressed “the need for all members of rural youth workteams and subworkteams to fully display the spirit of youth vanguard in a drive for implementing the theses on the socialist rural question.”
View of participants in the national meeting of youth workteams (Photo: KCNA).
Meeting speakers “noted that the members of rural youth workteams and subworkteams across the country have grown into the core of the socialist countryside and into enthusiastic young revolutionaries through the struggle for implementing the Party’s plan for socialist rural construction” and they “analyzed and reviewed such faults of some rural youth workteams and subworkteams as failing to launch their movement in a revolutionary way in keeping with the Party’s intention and the demand of the developing revolution and lessons from them.”
