Young people inject vitality into economic construction The Korean youth take pride in volunteering to work in youth shock brigades, which play their part in socialist economic construction, so as to dedicate their youthful life to the country. World-startling feats are being performed at every place where there are youth shock brigade members. Members of the High-Speed Youth Shock Brigade completed a storey of framework of a hotel in a day at the construction site of the Wonsan Kalma coastal resort, while those of the Cha Kwang Su youth shock brigade of the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex finished the general overhaul of four boilers ahead of schedule this year to ensure the normal production of electricity. Ri Su Bok youth shock brigade members of the Tideland Reclamation Complex of North Phyongan Province work miracles day after day as they undertake all laborious and hard jobs in the Honggondo tideland reclamation, saying there can be no limit in the spiritual strength of young people though there are limits to the power of machines. Young people who came to the Songnam Youth Coal Mine, the first youth enterprise in the DPRK, from across the country to boost the production of coal formed a vanguard death-defying corps and restored hundreds of metres of a submerged pit by displaying the daring spirit of charge and secured a new coalfield which is deposited with hundreds of thousands of tons of coal. Members of the Kang Ho Yong youth shock brigade of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine are making a breakthrough in the increased production of coal after carrying out the economic plan for three years till Sep 15, and those of the Ri Su Bok youth shock brigade are pressing ahead with coal production without slackening the spirit of having fulfilled the national economic plan for two years ahead of schedule until September. “We have doubled our daily plan with the spirit of defending the country which was cherished in the hearts of heroes in war days as the motive power for performing feats. Our shock brigade members have kept it as their faith to live like the heroes in the wartime,” said Kang Kum Chol, leader of the Kang Ho Yong youth shock brigade. Kim Yu Bong youth shock brigade members of the February 8 Jiktong Youth Coal Mine overfulfilled two years’ economic plan every year, and this year they carried out the annual plan in three months, two years’ plan in six months and three years’ plan in nine months. Those in the Tukjang Area Coal-mining Complex are making innovations every day to become youth innovators and youth heroes in the ongoing campaign to create the Mallima speed. “We have completed our economic plan for two years by the end of last August and are running a straight course to hit the tunnelling target for three years while making a socialist emulation drive between shifts, minimizing the blasting circulation time and enhancing the mucking capacity,” said Chae Chung Song, head of the Cha Kwang Su youth shock brigade. The youth shock brigade movement that is conducted briskly in all industrial establishments and coal mines throughout the country is adding vitality to socialist economic construction. By Jong Hwa Sun PT