Pak Song Hyok, Faculty of Law, Kim Il Sung University
2022.3.29.
President Kim Il Sung, who devoted his all for people's happiness regarding people as Heaven, is the great father of the Korean people. All the Korean people have given full play to their dignity and honor and enjoyed a worthwhile life with nothing to envy in the world under the great care of the President.
Chairman Kim Jong Il said ;
"The leader's love for the people is infinitely benevolent, in that it embraces all the people. Respecting the people as supreme beings, he has devoted his all for the good of the working masses, including the workers, peasants and working intellectuals."
Jo Tu Sil, whom President Kim Il Sung recommended as the first labor hero in the mining industry, is one of the working class people who enjoyed a worthwhile life under the warm care of the President.
On May Day in Juche 36(1947), when the building of a new country was brisk, President Kim Il Sung organized the May Day celebration and personally invited the representatives from factories and enterprises across the country.
That afternoon President Kim Il Sung was meeting model workers from all parts of the country, when he stopped in front of a young worker and kindly asked him in which factory he worked.
When one official answered he was from Komdok Mine, President
Kim Il Sung shook his hand, saying that he was Jo Tu Sil, a model worker of Komdok Mine.
President Kim Il Sung let Jo Tu Sil sit next to him and kindly asked about his age and his family.
At his answer that he was 19 years old and his father and brother were also miners, President Kim Il Sung highly praised his family, as the whole family members worked at mine and asked him when he started his job there. Jo Tu Sil told him that he was forced to work in the pit because of poverty since he was very young.
President Kim Il Sung, feeling so pity, said that severe life made him shorter in height and his hands bigger than other's.
Jo Tu Sil felt the fatherly love under the President's warm care of him whom couldn't see the sunshine in the stall like a badger's burrow and had been faded and he couldn't help sobbing.
President Kim Il Sung soothed him and said that now that the country was liberated and people like him took power in their hands, they should turn out like one to build a strong nation with their own iron fists.
Then he grasped his hands again and earnestly asked him to rebuild the mine destroyed by the Japanese imperialists as soon as possible and become a pioneer in the struggle for increased production by creating a new working method instead of the old one.
He was determined to increase production and become a fine pillar of the new democratic Korea as desired and intended by the President.
That day President Kim Il Sung taught them what to do in the future until the noon and he warmly saw them off at the doorway.
Since then President Kim Il Sung never forgot them, and especially the young worker from Komdok Mine who had said that it was the first time for him to wear a suit and travel by train, and paid deep attention to his work and life.
At the news that Jo Tu Sil was working hard to introduce a new stepwise mining method, President Kim Il Sung sent an official to Komdok, taking care of his health. When the president heard that he overfulfilled his Juche 36(1947) assignments, the first national economic plan, by five times and the Juche 37(1948) assignments by nine times, he was very much pleased and sent him a commendation and gifts to be handed down through generations. The president cared for him so much that he sent him to the Cadres Training School of the General Trade Union of Korea.
One day in November Juche 38 (1949), when President Kim Il Sung was guiding a meeting in the industrial sector, the president personally summoned him at a break and said in a warm-hearted voice that he was pleased to see if he had been well.
President Kim Il Sung seated Jo Tu Sil next to himself, worried about his health and learned about his study. He warmly encouraged him to study hard saying that only then could he continue to glorify his honour as a pioneer.
President Kim Il Sung, putting his hand on his shoulder, said to the officials that they all knew about his patriotic and devoted efforts and that the Party values the working class more than anything else. He stressed to introduce his working method widely in the mining branch in the near future.
As a result, the new working method he invented was widely introduced and popularized in the mines across the country and brought about huge innovations in production.
After the war broke out, President Kim Il Sung received a report that he had organized a youth shock brigade supporting the war front and volunteered for difficult tasks and thus increased mining efficiency by 17 times more than the state standard by introducing various new working methods in production.
The President said that his ore output records would be higher than workers in other countries, so that other people should regard him as a hero.
Thanks to President's great trust and care, he was awarded the title of Labor Hero for the first time in the mining industry.
A boy worker, who had lived from hand to mouth under the colonial rule of the Japanese Imperialists, became a hero of new Korea and a well-known labor innovator.
All is due to the trust and care of the President whose virtues and leadership are noble and lofty.
From then on, when available, the President met him in person and said that the Party always remembers the hero of Komdok and recommended him as the manager of the Komdok Mine(then) and the vice-chairman of the People's Committee of Kwangchon County(then), and gave all his love and care to him.
Indeed, President Kim Il Sung is the benevolent father and great teacher who led all the working people to become pillars of new Korea.
