The Legend of Love imparted by Chinsonnyo Moran

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said;

"Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great man with ennobling character and virtue."

It is common that there are anecdotes of the personal traits concerning the great persons recorded in human history. However there is no such a great man as President Kim Il Sung, who created the legend of loving care one after another fascinating everyone with noble personality and holy moral influence in his whole life.

The President met more than 70 000 foreigners including the heads of states from the liberation of country to the last moment of his life. In spite of different skin colors, languages and customs, they highly praised the President out of fascination once they met him. The fascination and admiration of all people is attributed to the excellent personality and noble moral influence of our President.

It is no wonder that there imprinted a lot of legends of love and friendship bestowed on a lot of leaders of other countries and people on the days of his active foreign activities.

One of them is the legend of love bestowed on an ordinary Indonesian girl called Chinsonnyo Moran. Chinsonnyo Moran is the name given by our President in the 1960s to the daughter of Yusup, who was the Indonesian chargé d'affaires ad interim to the DPR Korea.

While paying a visit to Indonesia in April 1965, the President got acquainted with Sufry Yusup, who was the then chargé d'affaires ad interim of the republic of Indonesia to the DPR Korea. According to the diplomatic practice, Yusup was accompanying the Indonesian president in the function arranged for the visiting President. It was during those days that he acquainted himself with how sophisticated, wise, generous and gracious, plain and modest the President was, and he was so fascinated by his great personality that he earnestly requested the President to give his first daughter born in Pyongyang a meaningful and beautiful Korean name. Granting his request with pleasure, the President named his daughter Chinsonnyo Moran, and sent a letter with his own signature.

Hence, an Indonesian child could have a beautiful Korean name Chinsonnyo Moran thanks to the blessing of the great man. But the legend of love related to Chinsonnyo Moran did not end here.

Since the President embarked on the way of revolution in his teens, he spent his whole life among comrades and people, making unusual friendships with many of them. However, the President never forgot him and his daughter, even though it was a short acquaintance.

On February 11, 1983, President Kim Il Sung unexpectedly received a letter and a photo of Chinsonnyo Moran from a member of Indonesian government delegation visiting our country. She wrote in her letter that she was adoring the President, who had named her beautifully and meaningfully, that she was wishing a long life and good health of him and desiring eagerly to visit Pyongyang, where the President was, and she was born.

After reading her letter, the President looked affectionately for a while at the photo of 17-year-old Moran, who had graduated from the high school and was preparing to study at the university, told the accompanying officials to send his reply letter and presents to her and to invite her to visit our country for a holiday.

Afterwards, the President personally listed the presents for Moran, arranged to send them as soon as possible and wrote a letter of parental love himself. In the letter the President wrote that it was just like a few days ago when he named her Moran and that he was very happy at the news that she had grown up enough to send him a letter of wish. He also noted that he was deeply impressed that Moran was looking forward to visiting Pyongyang, where she was born, that he also wished to see her, that he hoped she would be healthy and study harder to become an excellent talent for her country and people, and asked her to send his greetings to her family members.

That day, the President said that from olden times, people ask the person they respect most to name their children and it is now a long-standing custom throughout the world, but he had done nothing for Moran as the namer, which had weighed heavily upon his mind. He continued that he was feeling a little relieved as he was given a chance to send a letter and a present to her. He heartily said that as the saying goes it is easy to be a parent, but difficult to discharge a parent's duty, and it is easy to name one, but difficult to discharge the duty as a namer.

And he stressed again and again that the Indonesian delegation should take the letter and presents on the way back home, and had everything arranged for that. This was how the letter and presents of the President for Moran were conveyed to Moran, an ordinary schoolgirl of Indonesia, across the continent and ocean.

Reading over and over again the letter from the President and the present inscribed with his signature filled with his warm love, a young Indonesian schoolgirl Moran had a warm feeling that there was the great love warmer and deeper than the one of her own father and mother in the world. Hence, Moran became the center of attention of neighbors and friends.

On March 3, 1983, the President recollected when he had named Moran, said to the officials that if Moran and her mother liked to visit our country in autumn, they could come, and that if they came to our country, they should be provided with all the conveniences during their stay. Under the meticulous and kind-hearted care of the President, Moran and her mother visited our country in autumn that year as they wished. That was the time when the President was very busy greeting the 35th anniversary of the DPR Korea. Celebration meetings, demonstrations, celebration performances, banquets and other celebrations were being held, and 270 delegations from 116 countries across the world were being honored with the audience of the president one after another.

Even though he was busy and heavily engaged, the President did not forget Moran and her mother, who had come all the way from Indonesia and arranged everything for them to attend celebrations. On September 9, the National day, he mentioned them twice. The next day he called an official again and mentioned that he would meet Chinsonnyo Moran and her mother in the afternoon. He instructed to prepare the embroidery "Three Fairies" and the picture frame to slip the memorial picture of him and Moran into as a present. In the early afternoon he paid close attention to the reception of them and saw to it that the presents and Kimilsungia and were brought to the reception room along with light refreshments, and so on.

Thus, Moran and her mother who were not the members of high-ranking delegation could receive the audience of the President in the then Kumsusan Assembly Hall, and were honored to receive presents from him and had the honour of having a photo taken with them.

That day the President recalled when he was naming Moran in the harmonious family atmosphere and explained that Chinsonnyo meant in Korean friendship between two countries and Moran meant the peony flower which is called the king of flowers for its beauty. And he warmly encouraged them to write letters in the future just like close friends do.

When Moran said that she would like to have an internship in Korea after graduating from the agricultural college in Indonesia, he accepted her request, encouraging her to become a competent person working hard for the sake of Indonesian people.

Moran and her mother expressed their thanks again and again for taking the time to meet them and giving presents of love, even though he was so busy celebrating the 35th anniversary of founding of the DPR Korea. They appreciated it again and again, wishing the President and Chairman Kim Jong Il a good health.

After the reception, Moran was so excited that she said it was the happiest day in her life and the benevolent President Kim Il Sung would be her eternal father.

Seven years passed since then. It was time for Moran to get married. Hearing the news of her wedding, the President was so glad that he asked her age and the wedding day, and arranged to send the presents in his name, including the handicraft folding screen "Moranbong", a silver treasure box, cloth for dress and so on.

It is not surprising to say that even a father far away from home may not be able to send a dress for his daughter's wedding.

Of course fathers far away from home may send money to their daughters on the wedding day, but it can never be compared to the dress meaningfully sent by fathers, even if she could buy luxurious dress with that money. Therefore, children would cry, deeply touched even by a celebrating telegram from far-away father on the wedding day. It is the way children's mind works.

The thing is that the President did not forget his 25-year-ago relationship with Moran and sent the presents for her wedding with a feeling of genuine fatherly affection. The fact that the presents were considerately sent a month earlier than her wedding day, and the handicraft folding screen "Moranbong" was chosen as a present befitting her name, was indeed the living picture of the noble love and the holy virtue of the President, the supreme incarnation of the noble personality and holy moral influence.

Thus Moran became the happiest daughter in the world under his warm loving care and unsparing solicitude, with President Kim Il Sung, the supreme incarnation of noble virtues, as her father.

There are many great men in the world who left anecdotes of beautiful human virtues, but there is no such a great man as the President who blessed the future and happiness of an ordinary foreign child as her father.

That's why the story about the warm love of the President associated with the beautiful name of Chinsonnyo Moran will be conveyed to eternity as a legend of love showing the great personality of President Kim Il Sung possessed of noble personality and noble virtues unprecedented in the world.