“I Felt Glad to Offer Help”

 

According to the DPRK’s mass media, several people from a provincial pharmaceutical factory were rushed to the Hospital at Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences for terrible burns in June last year.

A large area of derma was required for their treatment.

Upon learning this fact, many people, ranging from medical workers to inpatients in the hospital gathered before an operation room, saying that they would donate their derma. Among them were girl nurses who had worked at the hospital only for a week after leaving school.

No extra bonus would be given to them in reward for their donation. And nobody forced them to do so.

After donation, they all said, “I felt glad to offer help.”

Such deeds are commonplace in the DPRK. It is its unique social climate to help and lead one another forward and devote oneself to the good of society and other people under the slogan, “One for all and all for one!”

Worthy of special note is the fact that the young people of this country regard it as the most honourable thing to work for the sake of society and the collective.

Last year countless young volunteers worked for the construction of 10 000 flats in Pyongyang, which drew the attention of the international community.

They were not end-users of the new houses under construction, but they would come to the construction site in the evening after work at their workplaces in daytime. They formed a youth shock brigade of volunteers and worked devotedly till late at night. For them, every one of those who would live there, was a member of their large socialist family and helping the construction of their houses was helping their own kith and kin.

In this context, it would not be so difficult for those in other countries to understand the astounding reality of the country in which young people volunteer to work at the most difficult and challenging sectors true to the call of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

According to a report, more than 10 000 young people volunteered to work at major construction sites and labour-consuming sectors including coal and other mines and farms in 2021 alone. In response to the call of Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, to achieve a fresh progress in the socialist construction, they made up their mind to devote themselves to the prosperity of the country at other strange places away from their dear towns, workplaces and homes.