Fatherly Love Associated With Processed Apples

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said:

"I have never considered my life to be extraordinary. I am content and proud to think that my life has been dedicated to my country and nation and spent in the company of the people."

Today, processed apples produced in large-scale fruit production centers across the country are supplied to the Korean people on a regular basis, thus, further enriching their life. Herein liesthe pains taken by the President Kim Il Sung to produce much more processed apple products for the sake of our people.

On April 5th, Juche60(1971), President Kim Il Sung visited Pukchong County to participate in South Hamgyong Province meeting commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Pukchong enlarged session of the presidium of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Welcomed by the officials at Pukchong Station, President Kim Il Sung asked how many apples fell down every year and how they were dealt with while acquainting himself with the situation of the county.

The leading official of the county party committee answered that they produced about 10,000 tons of apples every year and, among them, fallen and diseased ones amounted to approximately 2000 tons. Hearing this, the President said that 2000 tons meant 20% of the output and asked him how many dried apples were produced. When the official replied, the President said 50 tons of dried apples were equivalent to only 50 tons of fallen apples and was worried about wasting fallen apples without processing.

When an attendant told him that they had made fallen apples into apple powder that year, the President was very pleased to hear, saying it wasgood to feed children apple powder.

The next day, President Kim Il Sung looked around the newly-built fruit processing factory without relieving his fatigue from his long journey. While having a look at the canned apples with great satisfaction, he asked the senior official what kind of apples were used to produce them. Hearing his reply he said the cracked, the bruised and the small apples should be processed into canned apples while big ones should be selected.And he emphasized that it was better as they produced the more products.

While satisfactorily looking at the enormous piles of canned apples and bottled apple jam, he gently approached the pile of the latter one and asked why their color was dark.

When the factory officialexplained that there was no difference in eating despite its dark color, he warmly said we should make them yellow and soft just like honey as it was the very jam that our people ate.

Then, seeing dried apples which was a little dark in color and ungraceful in shape, he said that there seemed to be a problem with drying and walked towards the furnace. When the official said it was too hot for him to enter, he said that the workers worked there so he should go into the drying ground.

There President Kim Il Sung carefully examined the apple flesh being dried, wiping his sweat away with handkerchief, and told them to dip the apple flesh in salty water before placing them in the furnace in order to make colour bright, and to cut apple flesh into triangle shape and dry in order to make their shape look nice.

Then the officials realized that they could process all the apples without wasting even an apple if they followed his teachings.

In South Hamgyong Province meeting commemorating the 10th anniversary of Pukchong enlarged session which was held on that day, the President emphasize the problem of processing fallen and bruised apples.

First of all, you should process fallen fruits well. If you collect all the fallen fruits, cut and dry them, they can become good processed products. It will be very nice to give the children at nursery and infant schoolsapple powder packed in plastic bag. You should process bruised fruits well, too. You should select the bruised apples which are about to go bad soon during the harvest and make them into different kinds of processed products like bottled fruit, canned fruit and fruit jam and so on. You shouldn't throw away peel, but should wash them clean and produce, at least, fruit juice.

Thus President Kim Il Sung gave detailed instructions on the problems arising in fruit processing like this and earnestly requested once again to let our people eat all the fruits produced without wasting even one.

The President also visited Phungchon Fruit Processing Factory, newly built in Kwail County, on September 25th, Juche65(1976).

In the fruit-drying workshop, he approached the fruit drying machine in which dried apples and apple powder were packed in golden and silvery paper bags, picked up a piece of dried apple, tasted it and appreciated it was nice.

Looking up to the President who expressed satisfaction tasting dried apple and apple powder, the senior official of the county party committee was much moved recalling him instructing several times for dried apples and apple powder to be involved in major product list.

In fact, in the early period of factory operation, the officials were never concerned about products like apple powder which needed a lot of efforts but provided only a low output value, while they focused on those like canned apple or alcohol which was of a high output value. However, the President then said apple powder should be feed to our children with no teeth, and it be involved in the product list and sent the automatic fruit drying machine to them first.

That day, he looked around the flow-lines of apple juice and canned fruit in turn and personally selected the products index, carefully examining the processed fruit products displayed one by one.

Indeed, the warm fatherly love of President Kim Il Sung for our people is associated with the processed apple products and his warm affection makes our people's life happier together with the fragrant flavor of apples.