Ordinary Working People Who Had Highest Honor

Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Labor innovators and meritorious persons invited to the celebrations of the 78th founding anniversary of the DPRK received the highest honor of having a photo taken with respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on Sept. 9.

Whenever the founding anniversary of the DPRK and the New Year are celebrated, the life of the socialist patriotic workers who devote their sincere efforts to the country further shines.

Those who received great honor are workers, farmers, miners and weavers who have contributed to increasing the wealth of the country with their sweat and efforts and scientists and educators who have made a contribution to ushering in a golden age of socialist civilization.

The respected Comrade General Secretary repeatedly bestows great benevolence on the labor innovators, meritorious and other patriotic people who have devoted themselves to the country and people, putting forward them as the most valuable assets of the state and the greatest national power.

In his speech made at the New Year banquet on December 31 last year, he said that there are many labour innovators and meritorious persons like them in the country and this is the most important secret and pride that makes the Party, the state and the social system be always strong and developing.

Workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex, labor innovators, scientists and technicians of the Kaechon Area Coal-mining Complex, coal miners of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine, miners of the Komdok Mining Complex and many other working people had the highest honor of having a photo taken with respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

This encourages the patriotic struggle of all the people across the country for the prosperity and development of the state.

Our state awards the title of meritorious person of socialist patriotism to the working people, who devote their all to the prosperity of the country with a high sense of responsibility for their duties. -0-