Saturday, 26 March 2022

Whistle of Love for Posterity - Unique on This Planet


 2022.3.25.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/14570

Train is normally regarded a means of transportation for carrying passengers or freights in large quantity. In our country, however, it is taken synonymous with the love for coming generations.

In our country where mountains take up nearly 80% of the whole territory, various means of commuting to schools are in operation to ensure the attendance at schools even for the children in the northern highlands, including Ryanggang Province and Jagang Province, and in the sparsely populated remote areas, and one of the means is commuter train for schoolchildren.

In earlier times, the children living in the remote mountain areas had to wake up early in the morning to go to school because the schools are far away and the roads are rugged, and their parents also had to spend busy time from the early morning to prepare for their children going to schools.

Such an agony of children and their parents living in mountain areas came to be finally removed when President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il took measures to operate commuter trains for them.

The arrival of the commuter trains helped decrease the commute of the schoolchildren from 90 minutes to 15 minutes, and the number of trains increased along with the growing number of schoolchildren, and waiting halls were newly built in the train stations to enable the schoolchildren to study while waiting, though shortly, for the trains.

The operational expenses for trains are entirely borne by the state, and intermediate stations or elegant stations are arranged even for two or three schoolchildren.

The commuter trains born of the benevolent measures taken by the President and the Chairman are conveying the legends of love through generations, as they run as ever along the railway track.

Now, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un regards the children as the kings and queens of the country and spares nothing for them. He ensured that the commuter trains for our schoolchildren run at all times, the children’s camp at the picturesque area in Songdowon is renovated into children’s palace of modern style, and exclusive trains are arranged for carrying children from Pyongyang railway station directly to the gate of camp.

Moreover, he saw to it that all the conditions of exclusive trains meet the world standards in a way that TV screen is installed in each cabin to display cartoons and various shows helpful for teaching common knowledge.

Even in the period of arduous march and forced march forced by the attempts of the hostile forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK in 1990s, the commuter trains never stopped running, and the whistle of commuter trains continues to resound in the face of the difficult time of global health crisis.

In this world, there would be no other country where trains are operated for a few children even at the economic loss. The reality where commuter trains are running for just two or three children, and exclusive trains for children are arranged is unimaginable in the capitalist countries where only economic interests are counted.

So much so that foreign friends who witnessed the happy life of our children expressed their excited feelings that they came to know the true meaning of “kings and queens” being referred to the children in the DPRK; children in the DPRK are genuine kings and queens of the country; they want to be born in the DPRK if they are blessed with an opportunity to be born again; and the children in the DPRK are really the happiest in the world.

The legendary tales unfolded in the DPRK can be written only in the socialist country enjoying the politics of the people’s leaders who care and love most the coming generations.

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