In the letter Kim Jong Un said that President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il loved the youth most and devoted great wisdom and energy to the work with the youth all their lives.

The President began his revolutionary activities in his early years by going among young people and rallying them around fighting ranks as comrades sharing life and death, he said, and went on:

The President set forth the unique idea of attaching importance to the youth, successfully embodied it and brought up them as powerful vanguard ranks for the revolution and dependable reserve of the party.

Kim Jong Il, carrying forward the President's idea of attaching importance to the youth, handed to the youth the torch of the revolution and made sure that the youth league shined with the august name of the President.

He also provided energetic leadership so that the youth creditably discharged their mission and duties before the times and the revolution.

Kim Jong Un recalled in the letter that youth have covered a glorious path, glorifying the annals of the revolution with heroic feats and proud victories under the wise guidance and warm loving care of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. He went on:

The youth who represented the first generation of the Korean revolution achieved the historical cause of Korea's liberation by making long journeys for bloody battles against the Japanese imperialists, holding Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the sun of the nation, and set a shining example in safeguarding the leader at the cost of their lives.

The young people fought heroically in the Fatherland Liberation War, shouting "Long Live General Kim Il Sung!", thus bringing July 27, the day of victory. In the postwar period of socialist construction, too, they performed world-startling feats in difficult and labor-consuming fields, taking the lead in upholding the intentions of the party and the leader, and thus fully demonstrated the heroic stamina of Chollima Korea.

During the unprecedentedly grim period of the Arduous March, the forced march, they set their hearts ablaze with their fixed will to share destiny with Kim Jong Il to the end, strikingly demonstrating the invincible might of Songun Korea in defending socialism and in confrontation with the U.S.

Kim Jong Un stressed that the tradition of devotedly defending the leader, the tradition of heroic struggle that was created and has been successfully carried forward in the annals of the revolution, is precious revolutionary wealth and an eternal banner of victory which our youth should carry forward generation after generation.

He added that the present era is the era of dynamic struggles, a new era of the Juche revolution, as an all-out charge is being made to achieve the final victory of the revolution under the uplifted banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism under the leadership of the party.

He called on the youth to creditably perform their role as the young vanguard of the party by devoting their energies, wisdom and enthusiasm to the on-going historical advance.

He stressed that "Let Youth Become Vanguard Fighters Intensely Loyal to the Songun Revolutionary Cause of the Party!" is a militant slogan to be held up by the Korean youth.

He continued:

Young people should remain true to the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea and become a fortress and shield devotedly safeguarding the party.

They should become vanguard fighters implementing the party's ideology and defending the party's policies and become a death-defying corps in defending the socialist motherland.

They should establish the traits of always prizing arms and attaching importance to military affairs and resolutely foil the imperialists' ideological and cultural poisoning.

They should become vanguard fighters and shock-brigade members in building a thriving socialist nation and pace-setters in pushing back the frontiers of the latest science and technology and take the lead in ushering in the heyday of a highly civilized socialist nation.

Kim Jong Un clarified the position and role the primary organizations of the youth league have in making sure that the young people successfully perform their honorable mission as the young vanguard of the party in the new era.

He expressed his conviction that all young people would fully display the heroic stamina as the young vanguard in the historical advance for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Songun under the leadership of the party.