The respected Comrade
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Amidst the increasing yearnings for the Chairman
Mt.Osong is one of the highest and most rugged mountains on the frontline in the central mountainous area, and there the post is located on, face to face to the enemy's post. Rising with very steep slopes and cliffs together with as many as 152 turns, even a false step up to its top risks of falling down the fathomless precipices all of sudden. To such a mountain with dizzy sharp-cut cliffs and deep valleys over 1 000 meters high above the sea, and that the enemy's post being entrenched in face, did made Chairman visits in person twice in a year.
One day in early August, Juche87 (1998), it was almost unable to climb up the heights as the pass had been swept away and cut off at places by heavy rain in wet season. The members of his suite beseeched Chairman for refraining from going along the pass until it was repaired of its dangerous spots. However, he told them he was so near the post where his soldiers were in the long run that he should go up to the post. And he continued that supreme commander needs undergoing such dangerous a pass in the frontline, though in so bad a weather, if he could well be versed of his soldiers' life, and then he got into his field car with a definite mind.
The car endlessly bumped all along the rough road spotted with bare rocks washed up by the rapid muddy water and the strong wind and the plants at the roadside driven about, being rooted out. And a glimpse at the sideway down the fathomless cliff got people soaked with sweat at palms and dizzy to look out, then a tyre burst out with a bang punctured by a sharp piece of a stone. No sooner had the car taken a few more turns after replacing with a spare tyre than it suddenly tilted, thrusting its back over the cliff. Although the driver made a hair of escape, steering the car, but it then began skidding downwards with wheels running in vain, and finally managed with efforts to stand still. It wouldn't move on any more.
Chairman got out of the car and thrust his shoulders at the car body. The officials tried to dissuade him. However, he pushed it forward still more. Following Chairman, the members of suite pushed up the car inch by inch, gulping down their sobs. With all these heart-breaking nervousness and hardships, the field car at last reached the post, running along the pass round and round the mountain.
The soldiers rushed towards the car, shouting for joy and glory, but the next moment they stopped just in surprise at the sight of Chairman who got out of the muddy-watered car, in wet clothes and on wet shoes.
All over the mountain ardently reverberated the tearful voice of the soldiers crying ‘What shall we do, when you are on such a dangerous way?'
However, Chairman readily said that it's nothing and how could he take an easy way only? I should walk on a rugged way, too.
Indeed, there was never a sunny day or an easy way on the long road of Songun braved by Chairman shouldering the destinies of the fatherland and the people.
Some time ago, recollecting the tough road to the front, Chairman said that the sound of the word ‘Mt.Osong' moved him to tears and he couldn't forget the period of the hard-fought Arduous March, the forced march.
Today, the pass of those sharp-cut cliffs on Mt.Osong is still conveying the moving fact that the current prosperity and the people's happiness have been created on the road of his Songun revolutionary leadership trodden with an iron will.
We have deeply engraved in our hearts, walking along the happy road, how long and difficult were those hundreds of thousands of his roads to ‘Mt.Osong', although we did not know those days. We've got more clearly aware that those passes to the frontline have gathered to form our children's joyful ways to schools and the happy roads for our people to go along through the proud reality of today when the desires of Chairman are bearing the fruits of great happiness.
