August 28 is the day when President Kim Il Sung founded the Korean Communist Youth League in Juche 16 (1927). 

Chairman Kim Jong Il set this significant day as the Day of Youth. 

At the time when the excellent heroism and revolutionary passion of the Korean young people are entirely displayed under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who brings glory to the idea and feats of the peerlessly great men on youth movement and carries out the policy of attaching foremost importance to youth, the Day of Youth is a significant holiday dynamically demonstrating their organizational power, united force and power of execution.