Juche

    The noble greatness of Kim Jong Suk, the anti-Japanese heroine who put on a military uniform filled with powder smoke during the anti-Japanese War and a simple Chima jogori in the liberated country impressively touches the hearts of many people today.

    Recollecting Kim Jong Suk, President Kim Il Sung said that she loved her country and comrades more than others and devoted her all to the interest of the revolution.

    Some time after she arrived in Pyongyang when the country was liberated, she went to a market with an anti-Japanese revolutionary woman fighter.

    While she was choosing goods in a store, the fighter approached a cloth store, where a few women were talking.

    They wondered if it was true that the woman general of Mt. Paektu returned to Pyongyang. They said that she had much trouble in fighting against Japs in the mountain, so she should now live in wealth and honor. They also said that she underwent a great deal of hardships to win back the country upholding President Kim Il Sung, so there was nothing to spare for her.

    A woman asked that nobody complains but why she was not well-off. She answered that she led a simple life like the days when she had fought in the mountains.

    As if she could not believe the woman, another woman asked in return if Kim Jong Suk would wear cotton clothes like ordinary women.

    When the woman fighter was listening to their lively talk, Kim Jong Suk beckoned her.

    She walked in deep thought while looking at Kim Jong Suk who was wearing a simple cotton Chima jogori and black rubber shoes with goods in her hand.

    Who will say she is a woman general of Mt. Paektu that terrified the Japs if anyone sees present appearance of Kim Jong Suk?

     All the Korean people are looking up to her as an anti-Japanese heroine. How much will they be surprised if they know the fact that she goes shopping like other ordinary women?

    Kim Jong Suk asked the woman fighter what she was thinking deeply, looking affectionately at her.

    She told her all that they had talked and said she thought Kim Jong Suk herself might not go shopping.

    Kim Jong Suk told her not to say so and said that she felt it at ease to live like ordinary people. She also said that the people wouldn’t trust if the revolutionary fighters wanted to be more privileged or lead more convenient life than others because they had undergone hardships in the struggle against Japanese imperialists, adding that she was always anxious about it.

    Kim Jong Suk always found herself among the people as their daughter, sister and mother without being distinguished from others.

    As the anti-Japanese legendary woman general was so common, simple and modest all the time that there were many impressive stories that lots of people made “mistakes” because they didn’t recognize her at the first glance.