The five million members of North Korea’s youth league should prepare themselves as “nuclear bombs” to protect the nation’s leadership, the Korean Children’s Union (KCU) said on Monday.

The statement, which was revealed among extensive state media coverage of the first youth congress in 23 years, came from an organization representing and requiring membership of all North Korean children between seven and 13.

“Please be ‘five million nuclear bombs’ to protect our Dear Respected leader with your life as the men safeguarding the center of the party, based on a strong belief and will,” a celebration delegation of the KCU