To Provide Clearest Sky, Cleanest Air for the People

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung's was a noble life of a people's leader, who regarded ‘The people are my God' as his motto, applied it to his ideas and leadership and turned it into reality."

A moving story runs of an industrial city in the DPRK that turned pollution-free thanks to President Kim Il Sung's devoted service to the people in his years.

One day in July 1980, he visited South Hamgyong Province. Looking around exemplary consumer goods and technical innovations produced in the province, he asked the chief manager of the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex how long it would take to finish the project of purifying the gas from the chimney of its ammonium nitrate workshop.

Admittedly, the yellow smoke emitted by the workshop's chimney posed a severe air pollution – a big trouble in and around the fertilizer factory. The dusty, life-threatening yellow gas was also heavily clouding the air of the industrial city of Hamhung.

During his previous inspections to the works, he had emphasized the need to remove the dark smoke not by building taller chimneys but by filtering the released fumes. True to his repeated directions, they had struggled for years, and found out a method of purification and also of getting sodium nitrite as a spin-off. But the management officials could not make a bold decision because it would cost huge fund and ammonia-a principal raw material of chemical fertilizer. It was how the project had been delayed until the day of his visit in 1980.

The chief official apologetically answered that they would finish this year's production before they start the gas cleansing project from the following year.

"We can't delay anymore", said the President, "because the fertilizer is also for the people. Nothing is more precious than human beings. Pollution control is our revolutionary task number one." He promised he would also help him with the project.

Deeply moved, the manager vowed to begin the project at once. The President looked very pleased at his answer imagining cleaner air, bluer sky and pollution-free environment for the people, saying that pollution is unthinkable in socialist country. He took detailed measures to provide the funds and materials as soon as possible before he left the DPRK's chemical giant.

All the people of the Complex – employees, engineers and Three-Revolution Team members – turned out as one for the project of eliminating yellow smoke holding an immediate gathering on the spot that day to be true to the expectation of the President.

The project, formerly expected to take more than a year, was completed in a little more than two months. Trial running of the purification process proved successful, so the atmosphere of the industrial city at last turned cleaner and fresher free of dust and harmful gases.

When the news was released worldwide, many countries sent their engineers and experts to the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex to learn from their experience, lauding the great miracle-working Juche idea, as well as the happy life of the Korean people living under the people-centered politics of the President Kim Il Sung.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung was a great father who had devoted all his life to the wellbeing of the Korean people, providing them with the brightest sky and clearest air in the world.