For Earlier Victory in Anti-Epidemic Campaign: DPRK

-National Customs and Manners Peculiar to DPRK

The socialist Korea is overcoming the unprecedented severe trials and difficulties by dint of the might peculiar to it.

The virtue and affection of our society are to help and take good care of each other even in hardships. This originated from the noble examples of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is possessed of lofty views and outlook on the people and life that he cannot live without his people. And this is uniting all the people of the country as it provides a sure guarantee for the brighter future.

When our country faced the greatest upheaval since its founding due to the unexpected inflow of COVID-19, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent reserve medicines prepared by his family to the rural families in difficulty to relieve at the earliest date the misfortunes and pains suffered by our people for whom he has devoted his heart and soul.

And as regards the outbreak of an acute enteric epidemic in Haeju City of South Hwanghae Province, he again handed medicines of love prepared by his family to the Party Committee of the office building on June 15. He asked the Party Committee to have a detailed grasp of the households suffering from the epidemic and send the medicines to them as soon as possible in a bid to contribute to their treatment even a little.

Likewise, the fatherly love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un embracing the entire people with his heart and soul is reaching every family of the country. In such circumstances, the officials and workers throughout the country are learning after his noble examples to give full play to the traits of collectivism of helping and leading each other forward.

The situation is so harsh but daily increasing is the number of good deeds and moving stories of those who kindly console the sick and sincerely help the ones in difficulties. Witnessing such a reality, people deeply sense pride in the socialism, the best home in the world, in which the entire country has become a big family holding the great leader as a true father.

There are many leaders and countries in the world. But there is no leader like the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who sends all his necessary medicines to people. There is no country either like the socialist Korea where a virtue of helping and caring one another has become invariable social and national customs and manners.

Hence foreign personages expressed their excited feelings with the following words: “He was the only leader who proposed delivering the reserve medicine prepared by his family to other families in difficulty. We feel more keenly that he is the model leader of people.”

“I am firmly convinced that the Korean people will surely win the anti-epidemic battle on the strength of single-hearted unity formed by the same idea, will and ties of kinship between the leader and people.”

People, being united in single mind around the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, are overcoming the unprecedented trials and confidently advancing towards victory on the strength of virtue, affection and collectivism. This is the national customs and manners, peculiar to Juche Korea.

- Anti-epidemic Situation Controlled and Efforts Focused on Building Up Strong Anti-epidemic Bulwark in DPRK

With the nationwide spread of the epidemic at its terminal stage in the DPRK, work to further stably control and manage the overall anti-epidemic situation and strengthen the bulwark against epidemic is being pushed ahead with in all directions.

Based on the experience and lessons gained in the anti-epidemic campaign since the beginning of the maximum emergency anti-epidemic system so far, all sectors and units confirm concrete and dynamic directions of action and duties to consolidate their counter-crisis capability according to state anti-epidemic guidelines and put them into practice tenaciously.

Education and control are intensified to prevent officials, working people and residents from loosening vigilance towards the current phase of stability but make them maintain strong alertness and consciousness and voluntary and obligatory unity in thought and action.

Emergency anti-epidemic organs and curative and preventive units at all levels are focusing their efforts on implementing the targets to turn their respective areas into epidemic-free zones and provide the people with a reliable anti-epidemic environment.

Storing up enough anti-epidemic supplies for the use in case of an outbreak of a public health crisis according to standards, they reexamine and continuously modify and supplement the emergency work system and action plan.

Work to improve the state counter-crisis capability and guarantee the lives and safety of the people reliably by raising the roles of medical science research institutions is pushed ahead with dynamically. Intensive researches on and building up of the database of the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 sub-variants and monkeypox rapidly spreading across the world are given concrete shape and detailed planning.

-Genuine Defenders of Human Life

Many days have passed since the anti-epidemic system of highest emergency was put in operation with the advent of the hard times that may well be termed the greatest turmoil in the history of our country.

During these days, many beautiful stories have been told endlessly touching the hearts of everyone. Such stories can be found only in our country as we are one family holding the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in high esteem as our father.

Determined to share his destiny with the people and wishing that peace and laugh would settle again in all families across the country as soon as possible, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent reserve medicines prepared by his family to the families in need. People of excellent virtue and traits leave traces of patriotic loyalty and pure conscience in today’s emergency anti-epidemic campaign following the ardent love and affection and noble will of dedication to people by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. Among them are our health workers.

Those include the people of medical institutions at all levels who left their sick families and gave their whole-hearted devotion to the treatment of the people, people who volunteered for the treatment of the people though they live on social security after having worked in the health care sector for several decades, medical students who spared no knowledge or efforts for medical examinations of the people, and a responsible village clinic doctor who walked long distances every day for medical examinations of the people assigned to him and for supply of medicines before he died in the line of duty.

Our health workers are displaying communist virtue and traits with a sense of duty that they are responsible for health and lives of our people whom our Party set great value on and love. Their good deeds are in sharp contrast to inhuman deeds of doctors in the capitalist society in which human affection and love are trampled underfoot and faded away by money-is-almighty principle.

There are quack doctors who gave the cold shoulder to COVID-19 patients for they lack money and insulted a female COVID-19 inpatient as a drug addict for the mere reason of being a black woman - such are so-called doctors in the capitalist countries including the U.S. that are chanting the catchphrase of “equality for all” and “public welfare”.

Therefore, a new word is coined and going viral among people in the capitalist countries - “hospital refugees” referring to people moving from one hospital to another for medical treatment because they cannot afford it.

The above reality shows that even a hospital equipped with up-to-the-minute medical facilities will be reduced to a hotbed of crimes robbing working people even of their meagre penny permeated with their sweat and blood when it is devoid of people-oriented health care system and policy, and of public health workers with true love for human beings.

Our health workers are devoting themselves to the anti-epidemic work being conscious of the sacred duty entrusted upon them by fatherland; they place state affairs above their family affairs. Such health workers are the true possessors of noble outlook on life who are educated and trained under the socialist system in which we uphold in high esteem as the great father, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un endowed with ardent love for people.

Thanks to these genuine defenders of human life, the advantages and vitality of our socialist health care system will be brought to full play.