500 Blankets Sent To The Children Of Revolutionary Martyrs

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"No one in the world valued and loved the children of revolutionary martyrs as dearly as our leader Comrade Kim Il Sung."

President Kim Il Sung, possessed of the noble revolutionary fidelity, established Mangyongdae Revolutionary School for the children of revolutionary martyrs after Korea's liberation and showed all sorts of loving care and concern for them so that they could study and live without any inconvenience.

This is the story of 500 blankets sent to the children of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School shortly after its establishment.

On February 8, Juche 37 (1948), having attended the function for celebrating the founding of the regular revolutionary armed forces, President Kim Il Sung returned home late at night. He told Kim Jong Suk, the anti-Japanese war heroine, in a delighted tone of voice that Rim Chun Chu came back from Northeast China for a holiday with 500 blankets as a gift to him.

In fact, there was a very moving story about the blankets.

Rim Chun Chu and other anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters always remembered the sad fact that they had made only a small mosaic quilt for little Kim Jong Il during (his infant) days in the secret camp in Mt. Paektu.

That fact weighed on Rim Chun Chu so heavily that when he returned to the motherland for attending the function while working in Northeast China, he brought with him 500 blankets and gave them to the great President as a gift.

Impressed by the utmost devotion of Rim Chun Chu, Kim Jong Suk said that she was very grateful that he brought with him as many as 500 blankets.

Saying that only those who fought with him could do that, President Kim Il Sung recalled that a blanket had been extremely valuable when fighting in the mountains and many a time they had slept under the leaves, not covered with blankets so he ensured to spend 20 won which was kept as a legacy of his mother and his sole blanket to the children who had been ragged and hungry in Mt. Maan.

Then he said he was going to make good use of the blankets and asked her what she wanted to use them for. Kim Jong Suk replied that she would do as his wishes, but he asked again for her opinion.

After thinking for a while, she told him that she was certain he had the idea of sending the blankets to the revolutionary school and that she totally agreed with him. He said they were of the same mind and the children of the revolutionary school would be glad to receive the blankets.

When a woman standing by his side begged him to leave a few blankets for his family, he said all of them should be sent to the school, there was nothing to spare for the children of revolutionary martyrs, he could not do anything good for them due to the difficult circumstances of the country and he would do better if the economic situation improved in the future.

Thus, all the blankets were sent to Mangyongdae Revolutionary School.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung was the tender-hearted father of the bereaved children of the revolutionary school, who had deep affections for them, caring about even blankets so that they could live without any inconvenience.