Brilliant Leadership

Penguin Shed Embossed with Icicles

One day, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un inspected the construction site of the Central Zoo. Going round the zoo, he stopped at the penguin shed. Looking at the shed for a while, he guessed that the front walls of the shed must have been embossed with icicles as penguins inhabit the Antarctic Zone. At his statement, the official who designed it looked up at the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for joy. However, the official wiped the smile off his face immediately because the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was showing a look of discontent. Carefully looking at the white icicle embossment once again, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un told in a low voice the officials with a puzzled look that the caretakers would find it hard to clean the walls. Then, he taught them in detail how to depict the icicles in another way. The officials were deeply impressed. Even though everybody had been admiring the icicle embossment for resembling the real ones, there had been nobody who thought about the trouble the caretakers would have with cleaning the walls. The officials looked up at the boundlessly meticulous father of the people in high esteem.

Delayed Groundbreaking Date

Once the deadline for the construction of Sosong Street (now Chollima Street) was set, the officials of the project headquarters got fretted. The reason lay in the fact that those living in the one-storey houses on the construction site had not yet been dishoused. This resulted in the failure in groundbreaking although it was really challenging to complete the project by the Fifth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea. One day in January, 1970, President Kim Il Sung made a phone call to an official in Pyongyang to ask if the construction of Sosong Street had started. Having been told that the construction project was at a standstill because of the delay of dishousing, the President declared that they should give a start to the project in April. At that moment, the official could not help doubting his own ears. He could not understand why it should be put off for as long as 3 months as there was no time to lose even in the case of the groundbreaking at the beginning of the year. Fathoming his heart, the President warmly explained: Those who are supposed to move to other places in winter will have many difficulties in their lives. We should push ahead with the building of the dwelling houses that began last year so that the dishoused households can move there after completion. After that, we should start the new construction project and we should not violate the Party’s mass line when dislodging the owners. It was not until then that the official grasped the meaningful intention of the President. He found himself so choked that he could not say anything. The official came to realize their fault. Providing the households to be dishoused with temporary rooms for living, the officials had persuaded them to overcome inconvenience for a few months soothing them that they would have better houses. The official said, “President, we were inconsiderate.” Indicating that Korean people found it difficult to live without kimchi, the President said that if they moved in winter, they had to dig large kimchi pots out, which could cause inconvenience and trouble for them. The instruction penetrated in the mind of the official more deeply than hundreds of scolding words. This was how the project finally commenced in spring. They need not have worried about keeping the completion date as miracles and innovations beyond imagination were created day after day as soon as the story of the warmest love for people spread throughout the construction site.

Like a Real Combat

One day in a November, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un guided the dropping training of the soldiers of a unit of the Korean People’s Army. The transport planes carrying the soldiers flew in groups covering up the sky above the training ground and the soldiers showered down like hail. Seeing their training, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction saying that they were very good at descending and their skillful combat actions directly led by the brigade commanders and political commissars upon the unexpected combat order in an unfamiliar area was worth seeing, adding that they were really brave, reliable and stalwart fighters. Then, he emphasized that they should never cling to the stereotyped training methods but conduct every training and judgment under various adverse circumstances like a real combat.

People are Masters of Everything

Chairman Kim Jong Il once visited a hospital newly built in a modern style in a regional city. In a treatment room of the hospital was installed an ultramodern comprehensive treatment table of great rarity. The Chairman was looking at the medical equipment with great satisfaction. Explaining to the Chairman that such equipment was only for state heads like presidents or kings in other countries, one of the officials said that foreign experts had been puzzled how it was possible in the DPRK to import such rare equipment for a regional hospital and never succeeded in finding the right answer. Laughing a hearty laugh, the Chairman joked it was a pity that there was no king in our country. The moment, there was a burst of laughter. The Chairman continued to say that there was no need to worry, noting that in our country the people are masters who deserve to enjoy such valuable equipment. His remark was made half in jest, but the officials were deeply impressed.

Personally Feeling Warmth of a Stuffed Wheat Cake

It was one day in September, 2011, when Chairman Kim Jong Il visited the stuffed wheat cake shop which was newly established at Kumsong Foodstuff Factory. Looking at the ceaselessly produced stuffed wheat cakes, the Chairman told the officials with emphasis that the shop should produce high-quality stuffed wheat cakes in larger quantities for people’s diet, relying on the new production foundation. Then, he visited the outdoor stand set up in the factory compound. He personally felt the warmth of a cake. After a while, he called for serving our people warm cakes at every outdoor stand. Then, he repeatedly instructed them to take necessary measures for selling warm stuffed wheat cakes so that people could taste their real delicacy in warmth when steamed hot.

Even for Legislation of Sectional Law

One day in January several decades ago, President Kim Il Sung gave the officials valuable instructions on legislating the law on socialist property. That day, the President taught that only when the socialist state had a law on socialist property, could it protect by law and take good care of the precious property made by the people so that it could prove effective. The officials fell into deep thoughts at the lofty will of the President to make all the people take an active part in managing the socialist property by enacting the law. After a while, noting the situation where proper order was not being maintained in the management of the common property for not having a law on socialist property, the President taught that the main principle of the law on socialist property could be made on the basis of the Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Indeed, under the detailed guidance and warm care of the President, sectional laws for further consolidating the socialist system of our style and fully displaying its superiority could come into the world.