400, 000 bricks with three questions

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung's leadership is people-oriented, in that he solves everything by relying on the masses and enlisting them."

President Kim Il Sung displayed the gifted organizing and mobilizing ability of arousing the popular masses to working great miracles and bringing about changes while leading the Korean revolution beset with hardships and ordeals to brilliant victory.

This is one of the anecdotes showing the extraordinary organizing and mobilizing power of the President who led the work of creating miracles and innovations in socialist construction while giving instructions on the solution to the problems in reality.

Three days after the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War, President Kim Il Sung visited Pyongyang Textile Mill (then) to sit together with officials to discuss the reconstruction of the mill.

At that time, the President thought that it would be possible to complete the reconstruction of the mill, which was supposed to take more than 5 years by officials, in two months.

Shortly afterwards, he came to the construction site of the textile mill again and learned what the problem was.

The officials said 400, 000 bricks were needed at once.

At that time many servicepersons sent by President Kim Il Sung were working to rebuild the textile mill, but the construction was not proceeding rapidly because of the shortage of bricks.

The officials tried in every way to solve the brick problem, but they failed.

The project for expanding the capacity of the brick factory was not completed yet, and bricks were required everywhere.

If only had they bricks, the reconstruction period could be shortened.

Listening to the officials, the President looked briefly at the soldiers who had been arranging the broken buildings and walls nearby and asked an official the following three questions. How many soldiers are now engaged in construction? How many of them will be there if every soldier gathers five old bricks? How many of them will be if every soldier gathers ten old bricks?

At that time the official said that there were 20, 000 soldiers and if every soldier gathered 5 old bricks, that would be 100, 000 and if 10 old bricks, every soldier gathered 10 old bricks, that would be 200, 000 and then he couldn't finish his words.

It was because he solved the shortage of bricks for the reconstruction with these three questions.

Now that he realized the intention of the President, he said that he would mobilize the soldiers to solve the shortage of bricks by their own efforts.

The accompanying officials admired the President who had solved the problem of 400 000 bricks in a moment with three questions.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung was an outstanding great man who wisely led our people to create many world-startling miracles and innovations by displaying extraordinary organizing and mobilizing power in the revolution and construction with his far-sighted wisdom.