Brilliant Leadership

From Empty Envelope to Rich

Several decades ago, there was a farm recorded as “empty envelope farm” on the workmemo of President Kim Il Sung. It is Jangchon Vegetable Farm of Sadong District. The President devoted great efforts to turn the farm, which had been called “pultongchon” as it was a reddish muddy land unfavorable for farming, into a thriving one. When he visited the Jangchon village in a suburb of Pyongyang for the first time, the President heard that the girl agricultural engineer had received an empty envelope at the time of income distribution because of the poor harvest. Feeling so sad about it, he noted down every detail of the actual situation of the farm, and said he would be responsible for it. Since then, the President made a ceaseless journey to it, regardless of all weather conditions and even on holidays. Repeatedly walking along the muddy lanes across the fields, he learnt about the farm, which had been accepted as a land only for foxtail millet or wild millet. On this basis, he turned it into a vegetable farm and led them for bumper vegetables. This farm, which is associated with the warm love of President Kim Il Sung and the scrupulous guidance of Chairman Kim Jong Il, was newly born to be a model farm of socialist rural culture and a rich farm, under the great love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

To Lead Officials to be True Servants of People

More than ten years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave the officials the following earnest instructions. The lines and policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea are all for the people, and whether the Party’s policies for the people are thoroughly implemented or not depends entirely on how the officials strive. Deeply aware that they are shouldering the destiny of the Party’s policies, the officials should ensure that the validity and vitality of the Party’s policies are demonstrated in the people’s living. With extraordinary determination to devotedly work to solve the problems arising in improving the people’s livelihood, they should make tireless efforts. He continued: They should look back upon what they have done for the people every day, whether or not they failed to do something feasible, and if they did anything wrong working with people or they showed any rude behavior. If they found that they had made some mistakes, they should make intentional efforts to correct them. He stressed that by reviewing their daily work by themselves, all the officials should temper their Party spirit, do a great deal in revolutionary self-culture and prepare themselves to be faithful servants of the people.

Amid Blessings of Love

On June 6, 1946, a joint meeting of the children’s union organizations of Pyongyang City to form the Korean Children’s Union was held in Pyongyang. Before all the pressing affairs for the construction of a new country, President Kim Il Sung attended the meeting in person. Warmly waving back to the thunderous cheers of the schoolchildren, the President expressed his expectation that all of them would grow up to be the pillars of the future and bring this new Korea into full bloom, bearing in mind the great pride in having their own country. Then, he wished that befitting the treasures of new Korea and masters of new Korea, they all would grow up healthily and learn enthusiastically to become heroes to build their new democratic country. The President repeated the expression “new Korea” several times in his few remarks of blessing, which was full of great expectation and conviction. As though he was picturing the new history of our nation where children’s union members would become the masters of the future, the President, wearing a broad smile on his face, cast his eyes with great trust on the schoolchildren present at the meeting. Amid such blessings of love by the President, the Korean Children’s Union, political organization of children in our country, was founded the year after liberation.

Refurnished Lounge

In October, 2014, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Pyongyang Orphanage and Pyongyang Baby Home, which were newly built on a scenic bank of the Taedong River. Feasting his eyes on the panoramic view of the picturesque orphanage and baby home, he said that such fine homes for children would be found nowhere in the world, expressing great pleasure over and over again. He first headed towards the baby home, where he showed great care. He saw to it that the floor of the entrance hall was covered with rubber plates lest naughty children should slip over while running around, and that the LCD TV set in the playroom was moved to the center of the front wall. Then, he stepped into the lounge, which was prepared for the meeting of children and adults including the parents of triplets. Looking round the lounge with chairs around a table, he explained to the officials accompanying him that the arrangement of the chairs and the table was not convenient for parents and their children. Then, he warmly instructed that sofas be put on both sides of the room so that parents and their children could talk closely seated with each other. Thanks to the meticulous care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the lounge was refurnished to provide parents and children with friendly environment.

Regarding it as More Important Factory

In April, 2016, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the newly-built Mindulle Notebook Factory. Making a round of different places of the factory, he said that it is our Party’s treasure factory that exclusively produces notebooks for our children and school children, expressing great satisfaction with providing domestically produced notebooks to the younger generations. At the bookbinding shop which was full of notebook paper, he repeatedly expressed great satisfaction, saying that the piles of notebooks deserve to be called notebook bomb. Before leaving the factory, he told the officials that the notebooks produced in the factory would mirror the future of our country, and powerful future Korea belongs to our children who are growing up into the pillars of the country using the notebooks from the factory, adding that in that sense, Mindulle Notebook Factory is more important than those producing nuclear bombs.

To Make Children Value Their Own Things

In April, 2016, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave a field guidance to the newly-built Mindulle Notebook Factory to learn in detail about notebook production. He said that providing our children and school children with good-quality notebooks is of great significance even in instilling into them patriotism of valuing and loving our things. He continued that naming our own things should always be associated with patriotism and national flavor, and that when “Mindulle”-branded notebooks are produced, the bags, school uniforms and notebooks are all domestically supplied, adding that it will make them understand from childhood that ours is the best. Picturing the bright and cheerful looks of our children on their way to school with “Sonamu”-branded schoolbags on their backs containing “Mindulle”-branded notebooks and “Haebaragi”-branded school things, the officials were convinced that our children and school children will grow up into reliable pillars of socialist Korea, who are patriotic as well as knowledgeable, morally sound and physically strong, under the warm care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.