It was one day when the news that the people moved into new houses in Pyongyang after the war were reported every day.
Kim Il Sung, with a heavy heart, was walking for a long time in the garden in the early morning. Kim Il Sung was told that those who had moved into the new houses were in cold as they failed to be built as required by the Party. So he had not slept the whole night. That’s why he was in the dewy garden.
Kim Il Sung told officials to visit the houses before the owners went to work.
When he arrived at a house that had just been lig
Kim Il Sung’s visit in the early morning was so sudden that the woman was embarrassed.
Kim Il Sung entered a room after the kitchen. Touching the cool fireplace, Kim Il Sung asked the woman whether she did not feel cold in the room. She hesitated for moment and replied she did not.
Kim Il Sung shook his head negatively with gloom on his face. Kim Il Sung said with anxiety that the room would be certainly cold as its fireplace was cold. He said that fireplace did not suit to the life of the Korean people.
As a matter of fact, the inhabitants, who had begun their life in the apartments for the first time after living in half-underground houses, the temporary houses for years due to damages of the war, were so pleased to have lived in new houses that they regarded coolness in autumn as a trifle.
Kim Il Sung saw that houses were built for the people even in the post-war difficult conditions, but he worried about their cold conditions. He visited the inhabitants early in the morning and taught in detail how to build useful and cozy houses for the people.
Kim Il Sung was, indeed, a benevolent father of the people who took scrupulous care of the people’s life.
