Brilliant Leadership

Shoelace and Mental “Lace”

One day after liberation, the anti-Japanese war heroine Kim Jong Suk met a guardsman. When he primped himself and paid a courteous salute, she acknowledged it, telling him in an affectionate voice that his shoelace was undone. Only then, he came to realize that the lace on one of his shoes was left untied. When he lowered his head to tie it up with a deep blush, she warned him that shoes are like wings for a soldier, and that as a bird without wings cannot fly, so a soldier with shoes on against the rules can neither fulfill the guard duty nor perfect the appearance of a soldier of a regular army. Then, she stressed that he should regard it as a matter of the loose mental “lace” of a guardsman, not a mere matter of an untied shoelace, and that he should be alert in his military service at all times and in all places. Blaming himself, who failed to obey military regulations with a moment of slackness, he made a firm resolution to be an example of obeying the regulations and a genuine guardsman who would never allow even a moment of relaxation of his mental grip.

Mother Living an Eternal Life along with Watermill ...

Ryom Po Bae was one of the women to whom the President Kim Il Sung showed every sort of affection and benevolence calling them “mother”. Ever since he was acquainted with her for the first time in September, Juche 25(1936), she and her whole family stayed deep in the heart of the President along with the echo of the watermill in Changbai. As the Korean Peoples’ Revolutionary Army moved their field of action from Xijiandao to the shore of the Tuman River, it was impossible for the President to meet her and her family again, but nothing could ever break the relationship. Giving a field-guidance to Ryanggang Province in early May, Juche 47(1958), the President managed to have an emotional meeting with Ryom Po Bae, who he had been eager to see. This is how the tie between the President and Ryom Po Bae’s family was reformed after 20 years. Saying that he would care for her like his own mother, the President bestowed each and every kind of warm love on her. On holidays he invited her round to his residence for lunch and enjoyed films together, and on her 70th birthday he sent a birthday spread in case that she might not afford to celebrate it. In addition, he saw to it that she moved house near the hospital for fear that anything unpleasant might happen to her aged body anytime. Under the warm care of the President, Ryom Po Bae was able to lead a happy life to be over 90.

Fathoming Mothers’ Feelings

It was a September 9 when the whole country was buzzing with holiday atmosphere. Even that day, Chairman Kim Jong Il was on the way of devotion for the country and the people when he met with a general of the Korean People’s Army. Still remembering that his home village was nearby, the Chairman asked if he had his parents or relatives in the home village. Quite pleased to hear that his mother was there, he continued to ask why he did not live with his own mother. He replied that his mother had made up her mind to do farming in her habitat until the last day of her life to repay for the benevolence of the President bearing in her mind the honour of meeting the President at the polling station in her home village after the war. The Chairman felt from her the loyalty of all mothers in the country. The Chairman told him: You should drop by at your mother’s in the home place as often as possible; mothers stay worried about their offspring even after they grow old enough to have grey hair; they wait for them all the time in the bottom of their hearts even if they tell them to think only about their work but not to waste time bothering to visit them; mothers are worried all their lives; so you should make a trip to visit your mother. The general was indeed impressed with the instruction of the Chairman, who fathomed even mothers’ feelings.

Dear Home for Learning to Heart’s Content

One day in June, Juche 103(2014), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Ssuk Islet with an ambitious plan to have a great temple for making all people well-versed in science and technology built on the highest level. That day he gave a name Sci-tech Complex to the service base of science and technology, a comprehensive e-library where any kinds of information in all fields would be available, and he clarified all the issues arising in its design and construction. Then he stressed that the Sci-tech Complex should be built magnificently as a building fully embodied in our Party’s idea of attaching importance to science and technology and as a dear home for all the people to acquire knowledge in to their heart’s content. Under his great guidance, the Sci-tech Complex was built in an excellent way as a great temple of learning for all the people where the scientific and technological civilizations of the mankind are comprehensively digitized and as a large-scale data storage house with a huge capacity which provides with a constant supply of up-to-date sci-tech knowledge. It still tells the whole world the noble outlook on the people and the country of a peerlessly great man.

To Put Study and Production of Vegetables on Scient...

It was an early morning in September, Juche 101(2012). According to nobody’s expectation, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute silently. He made a round of different places of the institute saying that it was a modern and comprehensive base for research on and production of vegetables established by the noble intention of Chairman Kim Jong Il, who was so concerned about providing our people with a bountiful diet. Noting that since it was the age of science and technology, they should proactively introduce cutting-edge technology to increase the output of vegetables, he gave precious teachings on putting vegetable growing on a scientific basis. When he looked at the vegetables under trial, he was pleased with the fact that science and technology were in close combination with production. He added that they should show it to our people to let them aware of how putting the study and production of vegetables on a scientific basis was guaranteed. Indeed, the lofty intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who is always thinking about bringing more happiness to his beloved people as early as possible, was being inscribed on the moments of strong emotion.

Fundamental Principle of Workers’ Party of Korea

It was when Chairman Kim Jong Il started work at the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Seated together with some officials, the Chairman taught that in order to develop our Party into the party of Comrade Kim Il Sung for ever, it was necessary to identify correctly the main task in the Party work and activities, and that it was to thoroughly establish the ideological system of President Kim Il Sung in the entire Party. He continued that it is a fundamental principle of the building of our Party and its activities to establish the ideological system of the President throughout the party, and that it is the most important one to permanently hold fast to in the whole course of its activities as long as our Party exists. He stressed, in an earnest tone, that all of our Party work and activities should be focused on establishing the ideological system of the President, holding him up in higher esteem, and thoroughly implementing his instructions.