World of Working Class

One July day in 1975 Chairman Kim Jong Il inspected the Ryongyang Mine. After exchanging greetings with a senior manager of the mine, the Chairman made for the place where a hero work team was working. At the moment the manager pointed to a hillside bearing an inscription that read, “This rocky mountain is a 'mountain of gold’ and a ‘mountain of money’.” The official then explained that it was a remark President Kim Il Sung had made while inspecting the mine in April 1961. After looking at the inscription for a while, the Chairman said that he found the inscription meaningful as he read it carefully and that at the time the President had likened the stones in the mountain to gold and instructed that even dust ores should be all dressed.

The official then told the Chairman that they had built a dressing plant to deal with dust ores and that they planned to keep expanding the capacity of the plant so as not to leave even a bit of dust ores unprocessed. The Chairman told that they should do so without fail, and headed for the spot where model workers of the mine were working. Standing face to face with the hero leader of the 7th excavator workteam, the Chairman asked how much they could overfulfil their plan for that year. The workteam leader clearly replied that they would overfulfil the plan five times. Then, looking round at the accompanying officials, the Chairman said, “You look, our working class are faithful like this. We should spare nothing for the working class. Ours is the world of the working class. So the Party and the State should give preference to the working class.”

That day the Chairman took all measures to solve problems arising in the management of the mine.