The World of the Great Man that Enchants the People

Before the Bountiful Apple Harvest

This year, marking the 80th anniversary of the Party's founding, the fruit trees of the Taedonggang Fruit Farm are laden with abundant fruits, foretelling a rich harvest.

As the fruits hanging from every branch ripen with each passing day, the farm officials and workers are ever more fervently engraving in their hearts the world of the great love and devotion of Kim Jong Un, who always places the people first and tirelessly continues along the path of selfless service for the people.

Among the many stories they still remember is the heartwarming tale conveyed by a commemorative photo taken against the backdrop of a bountiful apple harvest.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

"The excellent orchards spread across every corner of our homeland are a patriotic and people-loving legacy prepared through the great painstaking effort and dedication of the Great Leader and the Great General, and a valuable foundation for improving the people's standard of living."

On August 17, 2016, amidst the intense heat of midsummer scorching the earth, the officials and workers of the Taedonggang Fruit Farm were honored with a glorious moment.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, overjoyed at the farm's achievement of a bumper fruit harvest, personally visited their workplace.

Ascending the observation platform with accompanying officials, Kim Jong Un joyfully observed the splendidly transformed panorama of the farm and the endless sea of fruit trees, and emphatically stated that the Taedonggang Fruit Farm is one of the patriotic and people-loving legacies left to our people by the Great General, that thoughts of the General make his eyes burn with emotion whenever he passes by this place, and that the officials and workers of the Taedonggang Fruit Farm must never forget the Great General's aspirations and dedication embedded in the farm, must glorify the General's immortal achievements by producing more apples every year, and must uphold the sublime moral obligation towards the General.

The benevolent images of the Fatherly Leader and the Great General, who walked long and arduous paths throughout their lives, seeking out orchards across the nation in order to plentifully feed our people tasty and fresh fruits all year round, vividly came to mind, and the officials were also overcome with solemn emotion.

Subsequently, inquiring about the total area of the farm's fruit orchards and the area bearing apples, Kim Jong Un kindly asked an official if they could produce 10,000 tons of apples this year.

The official vigorously reported that they would unconditionally carry it out.

Upon hearing his report, Kim Jong Un emphasized that the Taedonggang Fruit Farm, as a pillar of the fruit sector, must hold high the banner in igniting a craze across the nation, and that to make this meaningful year, in which the 7th Party Congress is being held, a year of victors, the production target of 10,000 tons of apples must also be seized.

Continuing, and inquiring about the apple yield per hectare, Kim Jong Un said that now, under the conditions of no vacant land at the Taedonggang Fruit Farm, the only way to raise apple production to a high level is to produce 50 tons of apples per hectare, that it can surely be done if they apply themselves as they are now, and encouraged them that they must take first place in this year's apple production and taste competition as they did last year, and that he would take the side of the Taedonggang Fruit Farm in the socialist competition among fruit farms.

In the heart of every official, embracing the great trust of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, a firm resolve to produce more tasty apples took root.

It was at this moment.

Comrade Kim Jong Un suddenly suggested going in among the apple trees and led the way.

For a moment, the officials were flustered and did not know what to do.

The orchard, densely packed with apple trees, was extremely hot and humid due to the midsummer sun.

However, paying no heed to this, Kim Jong Un joyfully looked at the fruit trees with branches weighed down by clusters of apples, laughed brightly, and said the apples were bearing fruit solidly, that if last year a single tree bore about 70 apples at most, this year it bore about 400, that they were really bearing fruit so heavily the ground might sink, and that it was just like bunches of grapes.

With the thought that they had brought great joy to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un by doing well in apple farming, smiles blossomed on the faces of the officials too.

Presently, deeply impressing upon the farm officials and workers, who had highly displayed the spirit of determined implementation by deeply bearing in mind the Party's intention to feed the people plentiful fruit, Kim Jong Un expressed thanks in the name of the Party Central Committee, suggested taking a commemorative photo, said that although all the good photo spots had been passed, they should take a photo against the backdrop of the bountiful apple harvest to show our people how well the apple farming at the Taedonggang Fruit Farm was doing, and moved towards an apple tree laden with apples.

As every official was unable to calm their hearts, fiercely leaping with indescribable excitement, the voice of the respected one resonated once more.

"Let's take a picture against the backdrop of the bountiful apple harvest and show it to our people!"

Indeed, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Unwas not merely gauging the farm's fruit harvest from the apples hanging on every branch.

He must have seen the image of the people rejoicing as they received those apples, and the majestic appearance of our country, which would prosper even more through the people's laughter.

Thus, not the splendidly transformed scenery of the farm village nor the endlessly spread sea of fruit trees, but an immortal canvas with an apple tree laden with clusters of apples like grapes as its backdrop was left in history.

A commemorative photo taken against the backdrop of a bountiful apple harvest.

Is it not indeed that the noble world of love of the Great Parent, who thinks of the people first in everything and finds this world's greatest joy and reward in the people's happiness-filled appearance, is condensed within that day's extraordinary commemorative photo?

Therefore, the immortal canvas left by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at the Taedonggang Fruit Farm still powerfully propels the officials and workers here to faithfully uphold the sublime intention of our Party's people-love with glorious results of increased fruit production.

Reporter Kim Song Il

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New Life Blossomed by Party Policy

Growing Confidence and Optimism Day by Day

It was when I recently visited the remarkably built food factory in Jae Ryong County with the women's union members of our county.

Seeing the tasty and highly nutritious confectioneries rivaling central products, admiration and praise came naturally, and it felt too regrettable to keep this remarkable scene only to our own eyes.

So, I bought some food products from this factory, brought them back, and let the people of our town taste them.

When I told them these were biscuits and candy produced by the Jae Ryong County Local Industry Factory built in our province, everyone was surprised, asking if they were really local products.

Only after seeing the trademark bearing the name of Jae Ryong County did their surprise turn into admiration and great confidence. Watching people joyfully exclaim that once the local industry factory being built in our county is completed, such delicious confectioneries will also come to us in turn, that the day when new life and new happiness come to our town is not far off, my thoughts deepened.

The voice that greater happiness is brought forward along with the modern local industry factory approaching its completion time resonates ever more hotly and intensely in our hometown.

Whether it's a town where the brilliant of transformation has risen, or a town迎接 a remarkable reality, everyone is filled with confidence and optimism, urging on every moment with patriotic fervor to further accelerate the brilliant tomorrow—is this not precisely the precious fruit brought by our Party's local development policy?

Jang Yon County Women's Union Committee Chairwoman Kim Un Hui

Strolling Down the Village Path in Joy

Since the new rural houses rose in our remote mountainous hometown, blessed by the Mother Party's grace, a new scene has emerged.

In the evenings, villagers stroll down the village path, picturing a more brilliant future before the scenery of the village flowing with light.

Having been discharged from military service a few years ago and started a family, I also received a new house and often stroll down the village path with my wife in the evenings. Whenever I look at the unrecognizably changed village, I often recall the day I received the new house utilization permit, how I stroked the nameplate in emotion, marveling more and more at the new house built for us by the country without taking a single penny.

Our village, which was so deep in the mountains that even children who had their parents' home here hesitated to visit, has now become a blessed paradise envied by all.

Even now, every time I open the door and enter, I newly feel how immensely great love the Party bestows upon us farm workers.

Truly, the warm love of the Party, shining without shade even onto this remote mountainous village far from the capital, is the nourishment of our farm workers' lives.

Love must be met with repayment.

The new rural housing has deeply implanted in me the awareness that while military service may have a term, there can be no term for devoted service to the country.

To repay the grateful love of the Party that brought today's change and this life, I will devotedly pour all my sincere sweat and effort into the fields.

Hoe Ryong City Chang Tae Livestock Farm Worker Kim Hyok

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The Most Important Task for the Comprehensive National Revival

Today, under the outstanding and seasoned leadership of the great Party Central Committee, a new history of great transformation, where the past and present of the local areas are clearly contrasted, is unfolding on this land.

To take greater strides forward towards the highest ideal of a civilized and powerful nation and to build a socialist powerful nation of endless prosperity at an early date, it is important for all people to deeply engrave the Party's intention of placing local revival as the most important task for the comprehensive national revival.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

"In the new era, our Party's conception is to make the central area envy the local areas, to have the local prosperity represent our country's advance and development, and to make the ideal appearance of the local areas the true features of our-style socialism."

The local areas occupy most of the national territory in terms of area, hold resources and potential desperately needed for national revival, and the local population constitutes the absolute majority of the Republic's population. From this perspective, enlightening the local people and accelerating the simultaneous, balanced, and leapfrog development of all cities and counties across the country emerges as the most important task and an indispensable requirement for the comprehensive national revival.

Local revival is a revolutionary undertaking that firmly implants the belief in socialism in the local people, solidly nurturing them into reliable bearers of the comprehensive national revival.

The people are the root and foundation of a socialist state. Only when the people, convinced of the superiority of our state and our system, pour their sincerity and devotion into further enhancing the dignity and prestige of the fatherland can all obstacles on the path of advance be eliminated and fundamental innovation occur across the entire space of socialist construction.

The experiential perception of the superiority of our-style socialism through real life strengthens the people's masses' belief in the correctness of the Party and state's policies and their will to share destiny with socialism to the end and defend it through generations a hundredfold. The local industry factories, risen as noble first实体 of local revival under the benevolent hand of the Mother Party, are adding hope and joy for new life and new happiness to the local people, and the ideal rural cultural cities and socialist paradise villages rising everywhere are awakening people to a new civilization. Our Party, not satisfied with this, is continuously pioneering new areas and realms of local revival, including multifunctional comprehensive service centers and modern city and county hospitals.

Local people, having witnessed in reality that the Party's new-era local development policy is precisely for them and that its results directly impact their lives, are further solidifying their resolve and self-confidence to cherish everything of their hometown and landscape, nurture it with devotion, utilize it to the maximum, and create a life and civilization envied by none. The local people's tenacious信念, strengthened a hundredfold through real experience, will extraordinarily accelerate the comprehensive development of our-style socialism.

Local revival is a highly important undertaking that accelerates the nation's economic and cultural prosperity.

Today, our Republic is demonstrating its status to the full as the world's only ideological power possessing political and ideological strength with the irresistible force of single-hearted unity as its core, and as a world-class military power with self-defensive capabilities that deny limits, continuously evolve, and leap forward uniquely. For our country to achieve comprehensive revival and comprehensive development in all aspects, greater spur must be applied to economic and cultural construction to transform the nation's economy and culture to befit the status of a powerful nation.

Our country's economic and cultural prosperity is importantly connected to local revival. Looking at the local areas now, backwardness and underdevelopment exist in terms of material culture. If the economic and cultural prosperity of the local areas is postponed day after day, only debating feasibility, we can never achieve the powerful nation we idealize, the comprehensive development of socialism, at any time. It is our Party's intention and determination to powerfully accelerate the economic and cultural prosperity of the local areas, strengthen the economic potential and foundation of each region in every way, bring a dynamic new civilization and new life to the local people, and further accelerate the comprehensive development of socialism.

The sound of production triumph echoing from the modern local industry factories in 20 cities and counties across the country directly becomes the vibrant breath of the regional economy and blossoms the happy smiles of the local people. The pioneering of new areas and realms of local revival, such as large-scale greenhouse farm construction and mountain tourism area construction, is becoming a source that extraordinarily strengthens the local independent development foundation and production potential, fosters a climate of balanced and competitive development in each region, and adds new momentum to the national economy. Under the Party's leadership, which unfolds grand conceptions for well arranging the local areas like the capital and changing the cultural living environment of the local people and powerfully guides the struggle for their realization, the prospect of eliminating the differences in cultural and knowledge levels between capital citizens and local people, urban and rural residents, and unifying the whole country in cultural level is opening more firmly.

If the local revival rise one by one perfectly as the Party conceives and desires, and their operation continues to be vitalized, the nation's economy and culture will reach a new height, and our country's comprehensive era of prosperity will unfold more impressively.

All officials, Party members, and workers must deeply engrave our Party's conception and intention regarding local development and stride out with one heart and mind into the struggle to accelerate local revival, thereby actively contributing to accelerating our country's comprehensive revival.

Reporter

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The Brilliant Canvas Unfolded by the New Era of Comprehensive Revival

 

 

New Scenery along the Pothong River