Sports is an important affair that display powerfully the dignity and spirit of the country and the national power.
Sports holds the most important position in displaying the dignity of the country, adding the national pride to the people and giving full play to their indomitable mental strength.
Today in the DPRK the hot wind of sports is sweeping over the whole country and the social interest in sports is being raised thanks to the leadership of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.
Kim Jong Un put forward developing the sports of the country as a part of building a thriving nation and he leads wisely the struggle to give full play to the dignity and the spirit of Songun Korea through it.
Though he was so busy with the state affairs, he gave precious instructions for the development of the sports and sat together with the ordinary Pyongyangites to watch the men’s soccer final at the Mangyongdae Prize Sports Contest, the sports contest of the staffs of the military universities held on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and the sports contest of the working people in the sector of public health held on the occasion of May day.
And he looked around the Yanggakdo Football Stadium and the Sports Quarter at the Chongchun Street to give instructions to refurbish them. He posed for a camera with the at
Thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un, the Korean at
Up to May, 2013 Kim Kum Ok ranked first at the 14th Asian Marathon Championship and Yang Kyong Il garnered gold medal at the 51st “Tankolov-Nikolai Petrov” International Wrestling Game. And Ri Se Gwang ranked first at the Heavy Gymnastics Challenge Cup Games of the 6th International Gymnastics Federation.
In 2013 Ri Su Yon and Pak Jong Ju snatched gold medals at the World Junior Weight Lifting Games. Ri Ji Ryon and Kim Kum Hyang garnered gold medals at the 2013 World Development Cup Short-Course Speed Skating Games of the International Ice-skating Federation. Hong Kuk Hyon cruised to victory in men’s 73kg category at the 2013 Asian Judo Championship and Pak Yong Mi and Hwang Ryong Hak placed the first at the 2013 Asian Wrestling Championship and thus added luster to the honor of the country. And Kim Hyok Bong and Kim Jong garnered gold medals at the mixed doubles of the 52nd World Table Tennis (individual events) Championship and Ri Chung Il snatched a gold medal at the International Boxing Games named Konstantin Korotkov. Such news gives impetus to the service men and people who turned out in the building of a thriving nation.
The 12th People’s Sports Meeting, the National Workers’ Sports Contest and the 18th Paektusan Prize Sports Contest of the Officials of the Ministries and the State Institutions were held in a grand style this year and thus the atmosphere of mass sports is further encouraged.
The more difficult conditions the revolutionary people of the DPRK are in, the more vigorously they advance full of hope and optimism of the future. The Korean people also actively conducted mass sports activities in the period of the Arduous March and created a new life boastfully. Such fighting spirit of the Korean people strikes the world with admiration. No forces on earth can subdue the country full of fresh vitality and the people full of laugh and optimism.
With the leadership of the Party that regards the sports as an important link for the development of the state and puts the utmost efforts into it, the DPRK will be raised onto the position of a full-fledged sports power in the near future.
