President Kim Il Sung is among the students taking part in the construction of Pyongyang in June 1957.
On the Day of the Sun, the Korean people feel deep yearning for President Kim Il Sung who always found himself among them and held them in high esteem.
His lifetime motto was “The people are God”.
He always gave top priority to the people’s interests and managed all state affairs according to their desires and intentions.
It was when he visited the then Songjin Steel Works in September 1947, two years after Korea’s liberation.
As he looked at those working at an outdated and dangerous induction furnace, he said that however precious steel might be, the lives of workers could never be bartered for that and resolutely ordered officials to blow up the furnace.
The people whom the President held as “God” were none other than those who had lived without political rights for ages including workers, farmers and intellectuals.
His cherished, greatest desire was to provide the people with the happiest life in the world.
Once he saw a rare chicken with long colourful furs at the heel. After learning about its annual amount of egg laying, he said that a good hen is a good layer and a fine-looking hen is of no use, adding that he would come there every day if there were any prolific layers, even though they might be ugly-looking.
It was the President’s yardstick for evaluation that however gorgeous and novel a thing may be, it is needless if it brings no substantial benefit to the people.
Every parent wants to bring any gift to their children after a trip.
Always with such paternal love, the President had been to foreign countries. He would learn about something helpful for improving the people’s livelihood on foreign tours and tell that to officials after returning to the homeland where his people were awaiting him eagerly.
One day, on a visit to the Kwangpho Duck Farm, he saw employees plucking ducks. The sight was so distressing to him he kept it deep in his mind, and later on a foreign tour he sought the way to make an unhairing machine and after returning home he made sure that the machine was manufactured immediately.
Every nook and cranny of the country is associated with his devoted efforts for the people’s well-being. Once he visited a farm village in a northern area of the country by pushing his car inch by inch along a muddy road. In a new flat into which the owner had just moved, he felt the temperature of the floor. And at the mess hall and hostel of a factory, he tasted the soup its employees were eating and examined the thickness of their quilts.
The Korean people will always remember the President’s noble life dedicated to their well-being.
(Source: THE PYONGYANG TIMES)
