Rice Seedlings Personally Transplanted by the President in the Mirim Plain

President Kim Il Sung was the benevolent fatherly leader of the people, who wisely arranged and led the agricultural development of the country while finding himself among the agricultural workers to solve the people's food problem all his life.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung's life 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."

On June 7, Juche 36(1947) President Kim Il Sung visited a farm in the Mirim Plain.

Responding to the enthusiastic cheers of the officials and the agricultural workers of the experiment station, he said that he came there that day to transplant rice seedlings together with them, and moved his steps towards a paddy field.

The officials, who had prepared a ceremony for the first rice-transplanting all night when they had known that the President would come to their station, asked him to transplant rice seedlings after holding the simple ceremony.

He said that the purpose of the ceremony was to transplant rice seedlings well, so it would be better to teach the people who would do the work how to transplant rice seedlings and start it soon. And he changed into working clothes.

When an official brought him a pair of boots, he asked him if he had ever seen that the agricultural workers did rice-transplanting in their boots, and said that bare feet were good for rice-transplanting, and walked into the paddy field with bare feet.

He told the officials that they had grown rice seedlings healthy and harrowed paddy fields evenly, stressing repeatedly that they should transplant rice seedlings with care as required by the technical regulations. If the number and depth of seedlings were not ensured properly, it would hinder the growth of rice and affect the yield, he added.

Saying that three or four seedlings per rice plant should be transplanted, he said that the group of rice-transplanters should transplant seedlings qualitatively and the suppliers of seedlings should carry them quickly, so that all the people, who came to transplant rice seedlings, should fulfill their responsibilities that day.

After a good while, he washed cleanly a bunch of rice seedlings in the water, lined up their roots, straightened the guide lines for setting out rows of seedlings, and personally transplanted the first seedlings on the paddy field.

When the President transplanted rice seedlings first, cheers of hurrah burst forth across the field.

He saw to it that all the people entered the paddy field and arranged two groups in a line, saying that the rice-transplanting should be done in a competitive way.

While transplanting seedlings, President Kim Il Sung walked carefully to the paddy field where an official had done it. Picking up a seedling floating on the water he said that sincere efforts should be made to transplant rice seedlings which were permeated with the sweat of the agricultural workers, and transplanted it again.

As soon as moving a guide line for setting out rows of rice seedlings, he transplanted seedlings on his front row and to the next place.

After a while, an official asked him to take a rest.

He answered that since the farmers who were transplanting rice seedlings over there did not rest, it was not right to take a rest first. He left the paddy field after finishing the work there.

Standing on the levee of paddy field, the President examined each of the rows whether there were any seedlings floating on the water or missing seedlings, and then came out to the resting place.

When an official brought him a basin of water to wash hands in, he asked why he brought it as the clear water was flowing there. Then he entered the flowing ditch water, asking the agricultural workers to wash hands and feet together.

When they hesitated to step into the water, he said that it would be good for them to work and wash hands and feet together, taking their hands to the water.

While washing hands and feet in the flowing ditch water, he told them that water was precious to paddy fields and stressed the need to do irrigation well in the future so as to do the distributed land control better.

That day President Kim Il Sung unfolded a grand plan for rural construction, saying that it was necessary to produce a large number of superior seeds to spread them, expand the area under irrigation so as to make more paddy fields and develop livestock farming to enrich the life of peasants as soon as possible, and left the station at sunset.

Looking up to the President who put his heart and soul for the development of the country's agriculture while finding himself among the agricultural workers all day, even though he was busy with the affairs of the state, they were firmly determined to bring about a rich harvest at any cost.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung was the benevolent fatherly leader of the people, who devoted his all to the happiness of Korean people.