One day in June scores of years ago, President Kim Il Sung had a talk with an aged man who was working in a paddy field created newly in a tideland.
The aged man told the President, who asked about prospect of paddy rice farming, that the people had dared not create paddy fields out of the tideland in the past but paddy rice would now be cultivated well as the water of Taedong River irrigated the field thanks to the President.
Listening carefully to the aged man, the President looked at the endless tideland. Saying that if the tideland was reclaimed, it would be enough to make all people have rice, the President suggested to pave the untrodden road and walked toward the tideland.
Officials said earnestly to the President that it was impossible to walk further as there were muds in front. Saying that it was important to pave a road in this tideland, the President briskly walked toward the muddy road.
When he reached the middle of the muds, the President looked around the surrounding and said that in the future, the broad sea should be dammed off to reclaim the tideland and modern dwellings built well on the hill of the beach. The President continued that it was necessary to reclaim the tideland on a large scale and build farms which could do farming with machines.
As a result, the tideland which had been a wasteland in the past, turned into a broad fertile field and farms were built along the road covered by the President.
