This summer is extraordinarily hot, but the Korean people’s excitement does not wilt in the face of the midsummer heat.

They have been overwhelmed by deep gratitude to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un for continuing an inspection journey of love and devotion in the suffocating hotness around 40 degrees centigrade.

At the news of the uninterrupted inspection tours he makes in the highest temperature and fiercest heat the country’s meteorological observation has ever recorded, the people are filled with deep emotion as it reminds them of the “midsummer forced march” Chairman Kim Jong Il made for national prosperity and the people’s well-being.

The “midsummer forced march” that cannot be found in any dictionary is a term of the times the Koreans coined as they braved all hardships following the Chairman.

As the Chairman went on with field guidance tours around the country in sizzling summer for his country and people, the Supreme Leader continues to find himself among the people.

According to official news reports alone, he inspected as many as over 20 units in North Phyongan, Ryanggang, North Hamgyong and Kangwon provinces, Pyongyang and elsewhere in some 40 days from early July.

In Samjiyon County he looked round different construction sites to inspire people to create a model of mountainous city epitomizing modern civilization. And at the factory that broke new ground in potato-processing industry he took scrupulous measures to mass-produce potato products, before proceeding with the forced march towards North Hamgyong Province. He unfolded a plan for doing offshore fish farming on a large scale at a leading salmon production base, so as to enrich the diet of the people, and designated the site for a large greenhouse farm capable of satisfying the needs of the provincial people for vegetables and specified the direction of its construction.

He also toured different units in Kangwon Province in succession to encourage working people to further efforts.

August 3 was one of a few days that drew special attention of people as it was forecast that the high temperature would reach its extremes that day.

But the extremes of weather could not block his way to the trolleybus factory and tramcar station in Pyongyang.

Although it was late at night, it was choking hot as the heated asphalt road sent out boiling steam. Overseeing the test run of a new trolleybus and tramcar, he was very satisfied all the way as he pictured the happy people using the modern means of public transport with better internal environment and fittings.

And he was dripping with perspiration when he gave thanks to those who manufactured the vehicles by local efforts and technology.

Most recently he inspected the Samchon Catfish Farm and the Kumsanpho Fish Pickling Factory with an eye to improving the people’s living standards.

His incessant on-site inspection tours implant patriotism in the minds of people and they press on with the increased production drive to make greater leaps forward in their dynamic economic construction.

By Jong Tang Song PT

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