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Excitement and Joy Flowing in Liberated Country Echo Today
2024.08.14.

The liberation of the country was a great event which the great desire and historic cause that the whole nation had long wished for had been achieved.

Since August 15, 1945, our people have discarded the chains of colonial slavery, regained their lost rights and seized the helm of history.

The farmhands, tenant farmers and day laborers who had barely managed to live in the past days, have become the proud masters of the country and devoted their all to the prosperity of the country in factories and rural areas.

The people who had not been the masters of the land, the people who had not been able to become the masters of labour, and who had regarded the pain and misfortune as their fatal fate, turned out to build a new society with a new appearance with the joy of their new life in the liberated country.

The newspapers carried the articles showing the enthusiasm of the working class who turned out in the building of a new country.

After liberation, we think that this is our work and our railways, and we volunteer to do our work before somebody asks us, so we don’t think of time and rationing. We first think of work rather than food or sleep.

Let’s rehabilitate the industry for the economic construction of the country by our own efforts!

The shock brigade movement started on February 21, which was launched by more than 650 employees. They have changed working in three shifts in the past into two shifts and have extended the working time by more than two hours, but their attendance is very good.

The workers turned out to conduct the patriotic labor hero movement and the drive for production increase, as they had been able to work to their hearts’ content for the liberated country, free from the yoke of subordination.

When our working class restored the destroyed machinery and equipment and production sites and emerged as masters of the factory and the country, the peasants sowed the seeds of happiness on the land of the country, overcoming all difficulties and hardships with the high revolutionary spirit and enthusiasm.

he peasants who became masters of the land after the promulgation of the Agrarian Reform Law waged a drive for increasing grain production, in immediate response to the call of President Kim Il Sung “Let’s greet the first spring of liberated Korea with increased production and not leave even an inch of land idle!” How about women? With the liberation of the country, a kitchen maid in the past became a deputy of the people’s power organ, who could discuss the affairs of the country and a despised woman in the past who hadn’t been able to write her name studied and wrote a letter by herself to President Kim Il Sung. The ordinary working women in factories and rural areas grew up to be heroines, women patriots and women innovators who devoted their all to the country and the people.

Indeed, our people devoted their all to the building of a new society in the factories under construction, on the distributed land and in the streets and villages, demonstrating their rights and position as masters who had never existed in the history of 5 000 years, together with liberation.

The people across the country, young and old, women and men, were full of a firm determination to eternally follow and glorify the brilliant people’s country, prosperous democratic Korea, with creation and labour.

Expressing the great national pride and honor of being led by President Kim Il Sung as an eruption of patriotism, our people in all parts of new Korea shouted in the loud voice. We will be loyal to our brilliant fatherland forever.

More than 70 years have passed since the historic day, but the people’s voice in the liberated country and their excitement and joy overflowed the country are still echoing in the hearts of our people adding ardour of patriotism and revolutionary enthusiasm.