Story about the Price of Hard Glassware

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"General Km Jong Il was a great leader, a peerless patriot and the benevolent father of our people, who devoted his all solely to the country's prosperity and the people's happiness with absolute loyalty to President Kim Il Sung and warm affection for his country and people."

There are many stories about the great personality of General Kim Jong Il who dedicated his all entirely to providing the people with better living conditions and never allowed any special favor in the annals of his revolutionary leadership.

Among them is an impressive story that General Kim Jong Il paid the price of glassware to a factory.

As a matter of fact, the factory was built wonderfully under the direct leadership of General Kim Jong Il, true to the noble intention of President Kim Il Sung, who had worked heart and soul to provide the people with a happy life all his life.

Keeping in mind that when President Kim Il Sung worried about the fact that our people were feeling inconvenience by lack of rice bowls and soup bowls, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il took measures to build a factory producing hard glassware during the period of "Arduous March", a forced march when a penny of money was so precious.

And he gave dozens of valuable instructions ranging from building operation to delivery of equipment and solved all problems arising in the construction.

At the end of November Juche 93 (2004) immediately after the factory went into operation, he visited the factory and went round the production processes one by one and solved all the problems arising in putting the production of hard glassware on a normal basis and improving their quality.

Indeed, the factory was associated with the noble love for the people and wise leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il.

It was one day at the end of November Juche 95 (2006), when the factory was contributing to the improvement of the people's living standard by producing a lot of hard glassware.

That day, General Kim Jong Il gave an urgent task to produce and supply a certain amount of hard glassware to a major unit.

Upon receiving the deep trust of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the workers of the factory finished the production in an early date by fighting a strained battle to repay it with loyalty.

The officials and workers of the factory heard the unexpected news on the day when they finished preparations for packaging and distributing products.

They were informed that the great leader personally paid the price of glassware to the factory through an official who came to the factory to take over the hard glassware.

The officials and workers of the factory were so bewildered that they did not what to do.

It was a real surprise for them to hear that.

The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the leader and father of a country, personally sent the price of glassware.

All the officials and workers of the factory were excited to hear from an official who had brought the price of glassware that the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il told the official to pay for the factory without fail even though they refused to receive it.

Calculating expenses the workers of the factory should pay the price to the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, who built the factory and solved all the problems necessary for its normal operation.

As a result, the workers of the factory wrote a letter representing their ardent desire that they would never receive the price of glassware sent by the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, and presented it to him as well as the money for the bowls.

In the letter, the workers of the factory said that the conscience of the workers of the factory tied in the same blood with the great leader could not accept the price of glassware and that no children in the world would receive the price of glassware from their own father, who brought them up himself, eagerly asking him to accept the simple and sincere request of the workers of the factory.

A few days after the letter, the workers of the factory received his autographic reply letter. On the letter of the workers of the factory, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il read the voice of the hearts of the workers who followed the leader as their father. He wrote that he can fully understand their feelings and appreciated them with his master-stroke handwriting in the letter.

He went on to write in the letter that as he was sending back the price of glassware, they had better receive it and keep the accounts correctly.

Feeling uneasy after he sent the letter, he called an official on the telephone and said to the following effect. The officials and workers of the factory said that they could not receive the price of glassware and sent it back. I can fully understand their feelings but I will return it. They should use the money for the operation of the factory.

Having received the instructions of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the workers of the factory shed warm tears looking up to the Pyongyang sky where he was, deeply moved by his noble personality.

Thus, the price of hard glassware was returned to the factory.

Story about the price of glassware.

This vividly shows the personality of General Kim Jong Il as a great man who never allowed any special favour and devoted his all to the interests of the people.

Indeed, General Kim Jong Il was a great commoner and a great father who put the interests of the people at the center of all thinking and activities and regarded himself as a member of the people and never allowed special favor or privilege.