Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The Korean working people call leader Kim Jong Il in chocking voice upon hearing that he passed away from sudden illness. They are now suppressing their grief and rising up with determination.

"Let us work harder"-this is the call they are shouting from the bottom of their hearts.

Ko Yong Sim, 24, female weaver of the Tetron rayon fabrics shop at the Pyongyang Textile Mill, told a reporter as follows:

What would he have said if he saw us disheartened? Let us work.

The weavers went back to the worksite deep at night as they believed that it was the way of building a thriving nation as wished by Kim Jong Il.

Weaving as much cloth as they can so as to produce more goods, this is the noble mental world and fighting spirit of the Korean working class determined to improve the standard of people's living as desired by Kim Jong Il.