Leading Students to Be Loved by People

Chairman Kim Jong Il was a benevolent father who always led our students step by step so that they could cherish the clear mind loved by the people.

Through one average day of Wasandong-Ryongsong road extension project, we feel our hearts warming up at the noble intention and exploits of him who led our students to become ones loved by the people.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"We should learn from Comrade Kim Il Sung's ennobling virtue of working for the people. In this way, we can become genuine students of the people, who value the people's interests more than their own and think for the people before thinking for themselves."

It happened during the break on May 28, Juche 50(1961) when the construction of the extension of Wasandong-Ryongsong road was on its way.

Chairman Kim Jong Il, who shared his place with the students during the rest, told students around him another warm story about what traits the students should acquire to be loved by the people.

That morning an old woman appeared with a bucket at the construction site to dig the coal buried in the ground.

But some of the students attempted to keep her from digging the coal but bury it, saying that it would delay the work.

Looking at it, Chairman got to fathom her noble patriotism of valuing the country's natural resources and followed her with a bucket full of coal he personally dug for her to apologize for the misbehavior of his comrades.

He told her that he was a son of the working people and asked her if she had run out of coal at her house.

She said that she didn't feel lack of coal as she was supplied every month but it was a pity to abandon it. She continued to say that if she dug the coal to use, she could save the country's natural resources even by a bit.

Telling this fact to the students, he earnestly said that we should learn from her deeds to value the wealth of the country and the people and to give the country even a bit of value to the country, and that students should make it a habit and a part of life to manage and use it properly from the university days, being aware of the value of the property of the country and people.

The students, who neglected the noble sincerity of a common old woman, who regarded coal as the property of the country and the people, felt sorry for their wrongdoing, while they were impressed by the Chairman's noble intention of loving country and people.

He recalled them of another story. A few days before some students had lunch at an old man's house near the construction site and started tidying the flower bed in the courtyard and dug a ditch under the fence. But unfortunately they broke the host's shovel. Instead of returning the broken shovel, they repaired it with a good handle, trimmed finely with a hand knife and gave it to the old host.

Chairman concluded that learning from the noble virtues of President is the best way to become a student loved by the people.

When President was staying at Liangshuitianzi in early Juche 22(1933) with his unit, he apologized to the old host repeatedly for losing his axe with which he had been breaking the ice to get water and paid a lot of money as a form of compensation. President still remembered it for as long as 30 years and felt sorry about it.

Chairman emphasized that the students should learn from such noble virtues of President and become the students who valued the people's interests more than their own.

Indeed, Chairman Kim Jong Il was the benevolent father of the people who led the students to become ones loved by the people.