The article said more than 1.2 million young people of the DPRK vowed to devote their lives to defending their beloved country and more than 3 million of them proceeded to major worksites after forming as many as 10 thousand shock brigades late last year when the nation suffered a big loss.

These are the actions taken by the young Koreans to live up to the profound love and trust leader Kim Jong Il showed for them by putting forward them as vanguard and shock brigade for building a thriving nation, regarding the issue of them as an important one related to the future destiny of the country, it noted, adding:

Kim Jong Il put up slogan "Love the young people", pleased more than anyone else with what they have done, and gave the word "youth" to the names of the structures built by them.

The young people in the DPRK loved and trusted by Kim Jong Il are now dynamically bearing the brunt of every difficult and labor-consuming project for building a thriving nation, united closer around the dear respected Kim Jong Un.