Brilliant Leadership

Newly-equipped Facilities

In the sweltering weather at the end of July, Juche 101(2012), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Rungna People’s Pleasure Park with its completion just ahead. That day looking with satisfaction round the wading pool which would be brimming over with people’s laughter, he was so pleased that the facilities and surroundings were decorated in white, blue and green, making the overall atmosphere around it fresh and clean. Going round the basketball court, volleyball court and beach volleyball court on the roof of the changing room with showers, he expressed great pleasure and satisfaction over the effective use of space and the tremendous change of surroundings. After a moment he instructed that the wading pool should be equipped with an emergency treatment room and an observation post and rescue measures should also be taken. That was how the emergency treatment room and the observation post were added to the wading pool.

Looking at Apples

One day in August, Juche 104(2015), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited a fruit farm that reaped an unusually rich fruit harvest. Learning about the number of apples per tree and the weight for an apple in the orchard, he expressed great pleasure, saying that the trees heavily laden with apples were really spectacular. Noting that the precious efforts of love for the people made by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il all their lives bore fruit, which brought about a rich harvest that significant year marking the 70th anniversary of national liberation and the 70th founding anniversary of the Worker’s Party of Korea, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said he would be really pleased if the President and the Chairman, who were so solicitous for an adequate supply of fruit to the people, could enjoy the scene of apples hanging heavily on the branches. Then, he looked at the delicious-looking apples again and again, saying that he felt happy to picture the people rejoicing at receiving them and just a look at them was enough for satisfaction, and that it was a good sign of prosperity of the country.

Boiled Millet and Cold Cucumber Soup

One day in July, Juche 54(1965), President Kim Il Sung visited a factory. That day the consultant meeting held under the guidance of the President came to an end quite a long time after lunchtime. With a guilty conscience, the officials of the factory told him that lunch was ready at the factory sanatorium.

The President friendly suggested all going for lunch and took the lead. However, he headed towards the hostel, not the sanatorium. The officials became completely puzzled at an unexpected happening. Waiting on a humble table in the hostel was a meager meal with several bowls of boiled millet and cold cucumber soup. The officials were so embarrassed that they did not know what to do. Inviting them to the meal he brought along, the President said that cold cucumber soup was the best for hot weather like that day and boiled millet was just right for the cold cucumber soup.

That night the President recollected what had happened during the day and said he hated being wined and dined.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung only thought of people without being alienated even a little from them.

Okryu Restaurant Reopened

It was the tenth day from the day when our people suffered the greatest national mourning. That day Chairman Kim Jong Il called an official on the phone and asked him quietly whether Okryu Restaurant was running as usual.

The official was hung in doubt for an instant. He could not make an answer to such an unexpected question. He had never foreseen that the Chairman could ever ask him about the operation of the restaurant at the time when the whole country was overwhelmed by a sorrow over the loss of the father of the nation.

Reading what he was thinking, the Chairman asked him again to find out if the restaurant was in normal operation. The voice of the Chairman heard over the line was hoarse. When the official equivocated how it was possible to run the restaurant at the time when the whole country was shedding bitter tears, the Chairman disagreed with him, earnestly saying that the greater grief our people were in, the more care the officials should take of them.

That day the Chairman said that we should not be against the will of President Kim Il Sung as he passed away in his office while working for the people all his life. He went on to say that looking round the city in his car, he looked at the bronze statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill, where he could still see many people mourning before the statue. Then, he sincerely requested that meals should be arranged for the people weeping in front of the statue at Okryu Restaurant.

The next day, Okryu Restaurant was reopened for the people coming up to the bronze statue of President Kim Il Sung.

Members of Foreign Delegation Shed Tears

In January, Juche 42(1953), President Kim Il Sung met with a delegation from Mongolia at the supreme headquarters.

After the interview with them, he hosted a luncheon and offered them to help themselves to the food as a favor though it was simple due to hard wartime.

It was not a luncheon, but a simple lunch as it was. Deeply moved by his personal character and simple life, they could hardly start eating. At that time, the deputy leader of the delegation slipped from his seat and went out silently. The leader and other members of the delegation were at loss at that unexpected happening against diplomatic customs. The members of the supreme headquarters, not knowing exactly why, followed him out to find him shedding tears holding a tree on the hill.

He said that they highly praised President Kim Il Sung of Korea, who defeated the chieftain of world imperialism, so when they left Mongolia, they thought they would have little chance to meet such a great man in Korea. And he continued as follows:

“We expected President Kim Il Sung would work in a magnificent operation room in a dignified general uniform made of embroidered brocade. So we have never imagined him working in a small farmhouse with low eaves, so small a room in which even the military map had to be kept in several folds, and leading the war like a world war in a discolored uniform with a closed collar.”

Then, he added that he could hardly hold the emotion in check, so he came out of the room though he knew it was against etiquette.

Not only the deputy leader but also all the members of the delegation were so much touched by the noble personality of the President, who was leading a simple and frugal life, that they had tears in their eyes.

Reason for Visit to Revolutionary Site

One day in June, Juche 102(2013), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un paid a visit to Yuphyong Revolutionary Site associated with the exploits of President Kim Il Sung for victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

Looking around the site, he told the officials that they should instill into the hearts of the coming generations where the President had performed a historic miracle by leading the war to victory.

This revolutionary site in the historic place Changsong is where the President stayed only one day in October, Juche 39(1950), but left an unforgettable story.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un told the officials why he visited Yuphyong Revolutionary Site like this:

The purpose of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War in a splendid way is not simply celebrating the day itself but demonstrating to the whole world what a great person our service personnel and people held up as their leader and in what spirit they won the victory in the fight against the allied imperialist forces and honorably defended the freedom and independence of the country.