Today in our country women are devoting their pure heart and ardent passion to following our Party, in full bloom as flowers of families, life and our country.
The Korean women who had to spend their lives in tears under the feudal oppression, humiliation, insult and restraint generation after generation could lead a genuine life under the warm care of President
Among them is Ri Su Dok, the prototype of the Korean feature film "My Mother Was a Hunter".
Chairman
"In the closing days of 1947, Ri Su Dok, a famous hunter in Phyonggang County, Kangwon Province, together with her husband, came to see Comrade
Before the liberation, Ri Su Dok was born as the daughter of a landlord's slave and began her tearful life. When her father died from the assault of the Japanese police officer, she killed him and went into a deep mountain miles away from Ri Mok-ri (then) in Phyonggang County, Kangwon Province to hide with her husband and hunted animals.
When they wandered about, Ri Su Dok was forced to live and follow her husband to hunt wild animals, which men dared not to do.
In the midst of the fierce fights against wild animals and the hardships of wandering through the mountains for several days, she decided not to go big-game hunting again, but for many years she could not help it.
The neighbours in the village had negative attitudes towards her.
But at that time she had no means of livelihood because she was born into a woman and was so poor that she had to continue her life with tears in her eyes.
Since the President liberated our country Ri Su Dok and her husband could lead a genuine life, being treated as human beings, free from exploitation and oppression.
In the liberated country, their social position changed dramatically, and under the benefits of the agrarian reform, they received 5,000 phyong of land and could live a happy life in a grand tile-roofed house. In addition, Ri Su Dok had the honour of being a member of the Workers' Party of Korea.
As her happiness grew, her mind was full of the desire to repay even a bit the great benevolence of the President who provided the Korean people with a new life.
In late autumn of Juche 36(1947), she was told that a tiger-2 fathoms long appeared frequently in a mountain valley in Cholwon and made people uneasy. She wanted to catch the tiger and present it to President, the benefactor of happiness, so she shot the tiger bigger than a bull with her husband just after 20 days from the childbirth and came to Pyongyang bringing with other five wild boars and three roes.
Even though the President was so busy with the building of a new country, he met Ri Su Dok and her husband from Phyonggang and asked her how she became a hunter.
She told him all about hunting to make a living, about suffering from insult and her decision not to go on hunting again.
The President said with great praise that she was admirable and the first female hunter in our country.
He continued that the Korean women are simple, soft and brave so if all of them turn out in the building of a new country, they can do a great job. He added that Korean women in the liberated country are strong pillars of building a new country together with men.
He had a photo taken with them and gave the commendation in his name, grand prize, a hunting gun and a camera as souvenirs. Then he told them to take the lead in hunting and reclaiming barren land in Sepho area and train the villagers to shoot to prepare themselves for defending the country against the enemy's aggression when they returned to the village.
Ri Su Dok and her husband returned to the village, deeply cherishing the great love and trust of the President, taught young and middle-aged men and women in the village how to deal with guns and inspired the people in the county to push ahead with the work of reclaiming barren land.
President
When the war broke out, Ri Su Dok took the lead in the work of detecting and smashing the reactionaries' moves to defend the homeland which had blossomed under the benevolence of President
During the temporary strategic retreat, all of the young and middle-aged men volunteered to the front and only a few women and elderly people left in the village. However, she aroused the villagers in the sacred war of defeating the enemies bearing in mind the teachings of President
Ri Su Dok organized the Phyonggang People's Guerrilla and attacked the enemy's train to kill 71 enemy troops in October Juche 39 (1950), and on October 29 she made an assault on the headquarter of "peace maintenance corps" to save more than 10 patriots.
And also she always carried the precious photo taken with the President and displayed courage in the battles including the ambush against the enemy's cars. Her achievements include the liberation of her hometown in cooperation with the second front units on November 12 Juche 39(1950) and of the county seat 2 days later.
The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on April 26, Juche 40 (1951) conferred the title of Hero of the DPRK in high appreciation of her militant achievements.
Upon being reported on her achievements, the President gave a pistol with her name on it as a souvenir.
Ri Su Dok fought bravely till the last day of the war and worked as a deputy to the 4th Supreme People's Assembly, as a party official and as an official of the people's power organ after the war.
Under the decree of the Central People's Committee, Rimdan-ri in Kangwon Province, is renamed as Risudok-ri and Wonsan Teacher-Training College as Wonsan Risudok Teachers Training College.
Like this, Ri Su Dok, who had to live in deep mountains in secret and suffer from every kind of subhuman humiliation and insult, could enjoy an eternal life as a famous hunter and a heroine well known to the country under the warm care of the great sun.
