Juche

    After Korea was liberated, Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese war heroine, always found herself among the pupils of the revolutionary school to dedicate her all to bringing them up to be true revolutionaries, genuine patriots.

    A policy of building a revolutionary school along with the baby homes and orphanages to bring up the bereaved children entirely at the state expense was enforced in Korea after liberation even under the difficult condition in which she was short of everything.

    First of all, Kim Jong Suk who was possessed of noble sense of moral obligation made efforts to search for all the bereaved children of the revolutionary martyrs and bring them into the embrace of Kim Il Sung.

    She had dearly kept a pocketbook with aubergine purple cover since the stern and arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle. Birthplaces of the revolutionary comrades who fell during the severe anti-Japanese war and the names of their sons and daughters were written on it.

    When she met the officials leaving to find the bereaved children true to Kim Il Sung’s instructions, Kim Jong Suk informed them of the names in the pocketbook in detail and requested them to take the children without fail instead of returning with no result after one or two search.

    At that time she did not know her family’s life or death. But she was anxious for searching all sons and daughters of the fallen comrades before anything else, enabling them to study to their hearts’ content and bringing them up to be reliable successors to the revolution, thus fulfilling the comrades’ desire.

    Thanks to the devoted efforts of Kim Jong Suk, great numbers of the bereaved children of the revolutionary martyrs gathered in Pyongyang.

    Kim Jong Suk also dedicated her all to ensuring that they could grow up to their hearts’ content without feeling inconvenient in life.

    Kim Il Sung told her to make quickly the new school uniforms, shoes and caps for the bereaved children of the revolutionary martyrs.

    Kim Jong Suk herself designed the school uniform true to the will of Kim Il Sung. After the design was finished, she went to the sewing room of the school and the clothing factory to assist the work of making the uniforms.

    One day before the opening of the school, she called several bereaved children to her house to look about their uniforms. And she repaired a uniform of a girl to fit her.

    Parental love of Kim Jong Suk who looked after their life with motherly care, sewing the buttons on their uniforms and boiling rice for them, became warmer as the days went by.

    One day when she came to know that some children had an infectious disease, Kim Jong Suk called at the isolation room without hesitation, saying that how she could say that she discharged the duty as their parent without visiting the ill children.

    And one day, she found a sign of sick from a schoolgirl, sent her to hospital and looked after her cordially. That’s why the girl called Kim Jong Suk “mother! mother!” with tears in her voice, putting her face in the bosom of Kim Jong Suk who came to see her.

    Indeed Kim Jong Suk dedicated her endless love and efforts to ensuring that the bereaved children of the revolutionary martyrs did not feel inconvenient in their life.

    Thanks to her love, they could grow up to be the high-hearted reserves of the revolution, unaware of any sadness as orphans even under such difficult conditions after liberation.

    Indeed, Kim Jong Suk’ noble love and devotion to the bereaved children of the revolutionary martyrs on the new road of building the country shines still today.