Upon receiving his autographic letter, the young Koreans fully displayed their stamina in defending the country and building a prosperous country for the past one year.

Officials of the youth league, youth and students across the country prepared over 160 000 flowering trees of good species and planted them around statues and sunny portraits of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and monuments to their immortality across the country.

Graduates from secondary schools in Kangwon Province petitioned to be allowed to join posts in the forefront areas. A great number of youth and students joined the Korean People's Army (KPA) in January last year.

More than 1.94 million young people petitioned to be allowed to join or rejoin the KPA when the Lee Myung Bak puppet regime of south Korea committed a hideous provocative act against the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

Young scientists and technicians of the DPRK successfully launched satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2, the first application satellite of the DPRK, thus contributing to successfully realizing the behest of leader Kim Jong Il. Their feats are recorded brilliantly in the history of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's Korea.

Youth scientific and technological march and technical innovation youth shock brigade movement have been waged actively. As a result, over 3 100 inventions and new technological innovation information including hundreds of IT goods were presented to the national youth scientific and technological achievements exhibition and a number of scientific and technological achievements have been introduced to the production.

On the occasion of the Youth Day last year, the members of the Paektusan Songun Youth Shock Brigade finished the construction of a main dam of power station No. 2.

The August 28 Youth Shock Brigade Management Bureau finished before schedule the construction of high-rise apartment houses and public service amenities in Changjon Street.

Young people who took part in over 20 key projects dedicated their wisdom and enthusiasm at construction sites.

More than 9 200 young people fulfilled ahead of schedule the 3-year, 2-year national economic plans while over 87 000 yearly national economic plans, when taking the country as a whole.

The youth workteam in Migok Co-op Farm in Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province and the youth sub-workteam in Sinam Co-op Farm in Ryongchon County, North Phyongan Province introduced a rotation production system and put the agricultural production on a scientific basis, bringing about good results.

Following their examples, more than 2 180 youth sub-workteams and youth workteams in different parts of the country spurred the agricultural production, doing their share in implementing the agricultural policy of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

Thanks to young people's warm patriotic enthusiasm, tens of thousands of hectares of forests were created in the country.

The young people of the DPRK are straightly and dynamically advancing towards a final victory of the great Paektusan nation under the leadership of the WPK.