In autumn of one year, Chairman Kim Jong Il who gave field guidance to Taehung Youth Hero Mine dropped in at Taehung Noodle Shop built in the Korean manner.
Kindly receiving the greeting of its cooks, the Chairman was told by the manager of the mine that most of the cooks had volunteered to the mine from Pyongyang over 20 years ago.
The Chairman looked at the cooks again with pleasure.
He was so glad to meet on the spot the proud women who volunteered to the remote northern mine far from the capital and devoted their girl days to the prosperity and development of the country that he said he would have a picture taken with them calling them with affection the well-known Pyongyang girls.
Approaching the cooks who were sitting side by side on the stairs of the shop with bright smiles on their faces and waiting for him to have a picture taken, the Chairman suggested in a kind way to stand up on the stairs and have a picture taken because they might get ill if they sat on cold stairs.
Even at the moment of having a picture taken the Chairman requested officials earnestly once again to write on the picture that they were Pyongyang girls.
The Pyongyang girls in the past in Taehung shed tears when the Chairman called them with affection the Pyongyang girls again and again.
