Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- Youths and students of the DPRK have expressed with pure mind their unbounded reverence for the three commanders of Mt. Paektu after suffering the great loss of the nation.

Keeping back their bitter tears, millions of youths and students throughout the country are standing guards of honor by the statues and portraits of the three commanders in different parts, including leader Kim Jong Il's birthplace in the Paektusan secret camp, Mansu and Ryongnam hills, the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt. Taesong and Jangdaejae Hill.

They have unanimously proposed to erect the statue of Kim Jong Il, the benevolent father, with serious repentance of their failure to do so as well as bitter grief at his demise.

Meanwhile, many youths and children are vying with each other to show their unsparing sincerity. Among them are junior youth league officials in Jagang and South Phyongan provinces, Hamhung and Munchon cities, youth sub-workteam members of the Sinam Co-op Farm in Ryongchon County and the Ryongbuk Co-op Farm in Yomju County and students of Sinsang Secondary School in Jongphyong County.

Young employees at a machine factory in Jagang Province formed a shock brigade with their determination to carry out at any cost the project, entrusted to them by Kim Jong Il, and went to the construction site on Dec. 21 after taking an oath with bitter tears at the mourning place.

An increasing number of young people are volunteering to join the shock brigade with their resolve to contribute to completing the construction of the Paektusan Songun Youth Power Station ahead of schedule. They included youth league members in Hamhung City and Pukchang County and at the Pyongyang Soju Factory.

Overcoming their sorrow, youths in different parts of the country are making a great improvement in production at their worksites to thoroughly implement the behests of Kim Jong Il.

Tens of young coal miners at the Anju Area Coal Complex formed a shock brigade and raised the speed of tunneling per day four times the previous one with guilty conscience that they failed to allay the pains taken by Kim Jong Il to solve the problem of coal production.

200 odd youths at the Chonnaeri Cement Plant have waged the production drive without shift since the day when the sad news of his demise was reported. They are now raising the daily production results 1.5 times the previous ones.

In the meantime the youths of the Pobdong County Garment Factory are carrying out their daily assignment 250 per cent.