Brilliant Leadership

Patriotic Appeal

In the first year after liberation, the richest harvest ever known was reaped in our country. The entire peasantry across the country turned out in the campaign of tax prepayment in kind with delight in having had a bumper harvest in the first-year farming thanks to the land reform. The farmer delegates from Sinbu myon (in those days), Sonchon County, North Phyongan Province, which had won the first place in the provincial campaign of tax prepayment in kind, had the honor of being received by President Kim Il Sung. Warmly welcoming and thanking them for having made such a long journey, he passionately shook them by the hands. They were so impressed and excited to be received by the President that they were all at loss about what to say to him. Listening to their incoherent talk, he praised them for successes in their work and said that what was the most important at the moment was to do one’s best at the construction of our country. Giving them valuable teachings that they should try their best to further strengthen the people’s government and do farming very well for the construction of a country, he continued to emphasize that they should, after going back, try hard to produce more crops, cultivate more cotton and silkworms for cocoon and do well in livestock farming, too. Then, looking over the whole delegation, he promised them he would also dedicate his all heart and soul to the construction. He also said that there would be nothing impossible for us when combining our efforts, strength and intelligence and firmly united as one, and appealed to them to build a powerful, good-to-live-in democratic country without fail. All the delegates were really excited at his teachings. Receiving the instructions of the President from the delegates, all the farmers in that area vowed, shedding their tears, to turn out in the construction of our country as one true to the President’s intention.

Earnest Request

In September some years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Kwail County, South Hwanghae Province. Appreciating their great efforts to produce a huge yield of fruit even in the face of severe natural disasters, he affectionately said the thought that our people would be really pleased to hear about the bumper harvest of fruit in this county cleared away his fatigue. Then, he earnestly asked for conveying his thanks to the officials and working people in the county who had made such a phenomenal success in the fruit farming. The officials felt a sudden rush of emotion. Nowhere on earth can we find such a benevolent father who extends his gratitude to the officials and working people who did what they were obliged to do. Indeed, it was the sincerity of only our respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the peerlessly great man, who finds the true joy of life and the worth of making a revolution in the happiness of the people, and an expression of his great trust and expectation that the county would always take the lead in fruit production in the future, too.

Pushing a Trolley in Person

It was one day several years ago when the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited a shop in Pyongyang City. Going round the different places of the shop, he was acquainting himself in detail with the management and service, when he personally entered a goods display section with a shopping trolley. When one of the officials hurried towards him to push it along instead, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un told him that he was going to carry some biscuits in the trolley, which brought a smile to the faces of the accompanying officials. Even then, however, they never knew why he bothered to do so in person. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un pushed the trolley around between the shelves stacked with goods so as to fully examine whether shoppers might feel any inconvenience or not. At last, the officials came to realize his intention. Looking up to the benevolent image of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who shows a meticulous concern to ensure their service activities flawless, they were really impressed.

Meal on the Road

When he was inspecting the field training ground of a unit of the Korean People’s Army one day, Chairman Kim Jong Il dropped in at the field kitchen. It was about lunchtime, so the kitchen cart was giving out hot steam and the soldiers on the cook’s duty were busy preparing lunch. The Chairman took a look one by one at the dishes prepared for soldiers and at the pile of various kinds of foodstuffs on the cooking board. Then, he strode onto the cart and opened the pot lids one after another, saying that he wanted to see what soup was ready for the soldiers. After a while, the Chairman suggested leaving as it was time for the soldiers to have lunch. After some time of his journey, he asked the driver to pull the car to the roadside for lunch. What was waiting for him was little more than a glass of water and a rice-ball. With a broad smile on his face, the Chairman told the officials that he found himself even before his simple roadside lunch happy at the fact that the soldiers were enjoying a square meal with warm boiled rice and meat soup even in the period of field training.

Our Beautiful Motherland

In the early months of Juche 17 (1928), Comrade Kim Il Sung was working heart and soul to implant the soul of Korea in the hearts of youth and children in Fusong. During those days, he personally wrote a poem and set it to music. He gave it a title “Song of Korea”. An immortal classic work “Song of Korea”, which was subsequently carried in a newspaper “Saenal”, spread far and wide instilling the feeling of love for the country and revolutionary optimism into the minds of youth and children and people. Every line and tune of “Song of Korea” expresses the beauty of our motherland, a tapestry-like land of three-thousand ri, which has been called Joson from olden times since it was known as the land of the morning calm, and the pride in our nation with rich natural resources and a time-honoured history and culture. As described in the song, our motherland was, for him, by far the most beautiful country comparable to nothing else in the world and the most valuable entity that we should glorify forever by ourselves. Comrade Kim Il Sung was indeed a peerless patriot who had noble intention as early as in his teens to restore and glorify to the world our beautiful country good to live in by the efforts of our people only.

Ideal Place for Learning

It was one day in August, Juche 51 (1962) when Comrade Kim Jong Il was conducting revolutionary activities at Kim Il Sung University. Sitting together with some students, he gave precious instructions that Mt Paektu is the sacred mountain of revolution associated with the revolutionary history of President Kim Il Sung. That day Comrade Kim Jong Il spoke highly of the students who had reached Mt. Paektu walking along Kapsan-Musan Guard Road from Pochonbo. He told them that any revolutionary of our times should be aware of Mt. Paektu and learn from the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, and that in the past Mt. Paektu was a beacon of hopes for our people and at present it is an ideal place for grasping the firm foundations of our revolution, stressing that the visit they had made was not a mere visit but a meaningful study tour for acquiring the revolutionary spirit of Paektu.