Touching Stories Conveyed with May Day

The people in the DPRK significantly greet the May Day, the international holiday of the working people throughout the world.

On this occasion, they recollect with deep emotion the boundless world of love of the peerlessly great men associated with this day.

President Kim Il Sung put forward the working people, who had been subjected to exploitation and oppression, as the most precious beings.

The President personally attended the Pyongyang mass rally on the first May Day after the national liberation to arouse the nation-building zeal of the working people in the country who turned out for building a new country.

In the flames of the Fatherland Liberation War, too, the President issued the orders of the supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) "On the Occasion of May Day" and instilled into our people and service personnel confidence in victory.

Our ordinary working people, inspired by the love and trust of the President, brought about the Chollima era striking the world people with admiration on the ruins and they could be grown up as a reliable large unit for building a powerful socialist country in the bosom of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The Chairman invited the working class of the enterprises of the metal industry and relevant sectors to the May Day celebrations held in ２００９ and enjoyed the revolutionary opera "The Flower Girl" together with them, showing warm love and care to them.

Thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who loves the working class as the President and the Chairman did, their honor and worth are further being glorified.

In the wake of visiting the Kangsong Health Complex on May Day ２０１２ to congratulate its workers, he visited the workers’ hostel of the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill, which was wonderfully built as a hotel and palace for the workers, in April ２０１４ and took benevolent measures for holding a grand banquet for its workers in celebration of May Day and congratulating them instead of his behalf.

Indeed, the warm love and trust bestowed on the working people by the peerlessly great men serve as a source of making them bring the proud history of the miracle and innovation on this land and a strong motive force for building a powerful socialist country.

As our people have the General Secretary in high esteem, the May Day is shining as a genuine holiday of the working people and a significant day fully bursting into their labor honor and pride century after century.

Rodong Sinmun