Brilliant Leadership

On a Significant Holiday

One April 25, Chairman Kim Jong Il inspected a unit of the Korean People’s Army at the forefront. Warmly shaking the hands of the soldiers shouting “Hurrah!” full of excitement, the Chairman congratulated them greeting the holiday. Then, he watched their sports games and enjoyed together with them a performance given by the State Merited Chorus. Soon after that, it was lunch time. The soldiers got wrapped in great excitement again, for the tables with the holiday dishes prepared by the Chairman were waiting for them. Casting a friendly look around the soldiers who were too grateful to be ready to start eating, he said warmly that he would be pleased to see them help themselves as the dishes were prepared by the supreme commander for the soldiers devoting themselves at the front post. All the soldiers made a pledge of loyalty to be human bombs and bullets firmly defending the socialist fatherland.

Invaluable Guideline

One day in April some decades ago, Chairman Kim Jong Il met with a graduate of Kim Il Sung University, who was assigned to a university as a lecturer. Noting that education is an important revolutionary undertaking, the Chairman told him that how to bring up the younger generations is a critical matter linked with the rise and fall of the nation and the future of the revolution. The Chairman told him that President Kim Il Sung taught teachers are revolutionaries who bring up rising generations to be competent socialist builders who are knowledgeable, morally sound and physically strong, and explained in detail on the traits and qualifications teachers should possess. Engraving every word and phrase of his precious teaching on his heart, he made a firm pledge to dedicate his all to the education of future generations.

Let us Help People!

In April 11 years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech at the military parade held in celebration of the 100th birthday of President Kim Il Sung. In the speech, he said that the People’s Army should follow the traditions of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army to be the vanguard of consolidating the great army-people unity as firm as a rock, stressing that the People’s Army should continue to hold aloft the slogan “Let us help people!”, which was set forth by Chairman Kim Jong Il. He added with emphasis that the officers and men of the People’s Army, under the uplifted slogan, should do many good things for the people with the mind of devoting to their own parents and siblings and of taking good care of their homes and yards, thus fulfilling the mission and duty as the army of the people.

Saying that It Was Real Commemoration

One day in March, Juche 102 (2013), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was guiding the landing and anti-landing drill of the units of the Korean People’s Army when he personally set a fire position beside himself for the artillery women of the multiple rocket launcher of a sub-unit and pointed a target at a moment’s notice, and ordered them to smash it. Noting that he gave situations at short notice every time he inspected military units, he said that it is because today’s drill is directly connected with tomorrow’s combat. At his order, the artillery women promptly took their fire position with redoubled courage and confidence, and accurately hit and annihilated the target. He shook every hand of them and praised them for perfectly carrying out their sudden mission, saying that they were real crackshots. Then, he had a souvenir photograph taken with all of them saying that it was real commemoration. That is how a picture of love was taken on the training ground clouded with gunpowder smoke.

Uprooted Pillars

One day in March, Juche 74 (1985), when Changgwang Street was under construction in its second stage, Chairman Kim Jong Il visited the construction site. While learning in detail about the actual state of the housing construction, he came to know from the report of one of the officials that a garage was going to be built in the residential area. Looking at a newly-built folding screen-shaped high-rise apartment building, the Chairman asked how many flats it had. When he heard that it had 800 flats, the Chairman estimated that there would be more than 2 000 children. Then, he showed his anxiety that they would find nowhere to play if a garage is built behind the apartment building. He continued that the site of the garage under construction should be changed into an extensive playground for children. One of the officials disclosed his intention of proceeding with the building of the garage in progress and making a nice playground between the apartment building and the garage instead. Then, saying with a smile that the official must be reluctant to have the erected pillars pulled out, the Chairman instructed that there should be a garden and a park behind the apartment building so that all the children would play away from the street, and that all the concrete pillars should be uprooted for preparation of a broad playground for children. Later, the pillars for the garage were all removed, and our children, the pillars of the country, were able to play to their heart’s content on the playground built on the site of the garage.

Story Associated With Manbok Flower

A few years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un looked at the photo of a flower which was being cultivated in the Pyongyang Floriculture Institute. The flower which belongs to Cymbidium, orchid family, was associated with a really unforgettable story. In March, Juche 100 (2011), Chairman Kim Jong Il had visited the institute, where he made a promise of love to name the newly-bred Cymbidium hybridum when it produced a bloom. Subsequently, the officials and scientists at the institute, with ardent yearning for him, grew countless flowers in full bloom and politely made a report to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, wishing him to name it. Looking at the photo in a deep recollection of the unforgettable story, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un wrote down a name “Manbok flower” (literally means ‘all happiness’) in his autograph saying that it was really beautiful. “Manbok flower” reflects his grand intention to bring all kinds of happiness of the world to our people, who Chairman Kim Jong Il had loved so much.