A meeting to receive campers from different parts of the country took place on Feb. 16.

A report and speeches were made there.

A reporter and speakers said at the meeting that all the children should positively learn from the childhood of Kim Jong Il and briskly conduct various group activities and colorful sports and cultural amusement games and thus consolidate their knowledge and harden strong will and physical strength during the camping.

They called upon the campers to give full play to the collective spirit and prepare themselves to be reliable able workers of the future, knowledgeable, virtuous and healthy.

On the same day, Choe Ki Ryong, chairman of the Jagang Provincial People's Committee, and other officials concerned congratulated schoolchildren on their first camp for this year.