Kim Jong Il’s birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp is a historic place where he was born.
Leader Kim Jong Il was born as the “Shining Star of Mt. Paektu” in a simple log cabin in the Paektusan Secret Camp on February 16, 1942.
Rooms of the log cabin are arranged and preserved as they were. In the rooms there are a knapsack, a wood pistol and a pair of binoculars and a mosaic Korean map which the leader used in his childhood, a low desk and a small chest on which there are a patched quilt and blankets the woman guerillas prepared for him with sincerity.
There are also a canteen, a water pail and other kitchen utensils the anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk used.
On the entrance to the log cabin there is a monument inscribed with the poem “Shining Star” written by President Kim Il Sung on the 50th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il out of the Korean people’s unanimous desire to consummate the revolutionary cause of Juche with the leader as the “Shining Star of Mt. Paektu.”
Behind the log cabin there stands Jong Il Peak named by the President in reflection of the whole nation’s earnest desire to have the leader, the son of Mt. Paektu combined with pen and sword, loyalty and filial devotion, in the top post of the Party, state and army and uphold his leadership to the last.
Kim Jong Il’s native home in the Paektusan Secret Camp is dear to the heart of the Korean people together with President Kim Il Sung’s native home at Mangyongdae.
