Brilliant Leadership

Spring Water the Chairman Tasted in Person

One day in January, Juche 100(2011), Chairman Kim Jong Il paid a visit to the Ryongaksan Spring Water Factory situated at the foot of picturesque Mt. Ryongak. Looking attentively at the analysis table with the officials’ explanations, the Chairman was very satisfied with the fact that Ryongaksan spring water has the right amount of selenium and fluorine beneficial to health, whereas other world-famous do not. Presently, the Chairman looked around the production line. He tasted in person the spring water produced there to estimate the quality. The officials were deeply moved. They experienced once again his passionate love for the people when the Chairman even bothered to taste water for promoting the people’s health in the teeth of the intense cold. After a while, the Chairman appreciated the taste of the water, highly praising the scientists and the officials and workers of the factory for discovering the sources of a large quantity of water of a high quality in the place which had been called Wollo-ri (literally meaning many macrobians thanks to its quality water from olden times), and for setting up the modern factory to supply the citizens of the capital with processed spring water.

On the First Sunday in December

On the first Sunday in December when the year Juche 100(2011) was coming to an end, Chairman Kim Jong Il inspected the Amusement Park of Kaeson Youth Park built for cultural recreation of the people. Going round the different places of the amusement park built in line with a modern taste, he learnt in detail about the management and operation. Then, he told the accompanying officials to try the machines in order to check on the operation. When they were thrilled that the rotary machines going sharply up and down swept their fatigue away, the Chairman carried a broad smile on his face as if he was hearing the happy laughter of the people. That day, he gave precious instructions on the issues of supplying the service facilities in the amusement park with enough raw materials for their effective operation and of scrupulously managing and operating the amusement park so that people would enjoy themselves without feeling any slight inconvenience.

Ultimate People-oriented Constitution

The socialist constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the ultimate people-oriented one for workers, farmers, soldiers and intellectuals. One day in March, Juche 62(1973), a leading official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a phone call from President Kim Il Sung. Talking about offering our socialist constitution to other countries for reference, the President acknowledged that the socialist constitution was well-established. Then, the President informed him that it was being studied even at a university in a capitalist country. The following fact shows what great sensations our socialist constitution caused throughout the world. In a forum on our socialist constitution that was held at the proposition of the personages of the political parties and women organizations in a hostile country, a lady figure was unsparing in her praise. She said, “The socialist constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is very specific in the description of every detail, and unlike those of other countries, it enables the working masses to take part in the socialist construction with attitude of masters. In every chapter and every article of this superior constitution are fully embodied the Juche philosophy of President Kim Il Sung, who clarified that man is the master of everything.” However, nobody in the world including her is aware of the emotional story that our President gave detailed instructions even on a single provision and a single expression of the draft constitution of over 100 provisions to make it people-oriented.

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.