The land where a breeze is as gentle as a mother's voice and every site is as warm as mother's bosom is a native place. In such a place anyone feels as if the affectionate eyes and kind-hearted voices of intimate people warm their hearts.
That is why it is generally acknowledged that the image of a native place is the one for the fatherland, and the love for it the one for the fatherland.
In history many great men have left a remarkable footprint in their lives with ardent love for their native places.
However, no one can find such a peerless patriot as President
The respected Comrade
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Mangyongdae is the place where President
The great leader set off on a 250-mile journey for national liberation with a firm determination not to return home again as long as Korea was not liberated. Such a journey began with one step at the brushwood gate of Mangyongdae. He also missed his old home very much singing a song "Nostalgia" with his revolutionary comrades-in-arms round a bonfire in a secret camp at a bright moonlit night and strengthened his will to liberate the country. Indeed, Mangyongdae was not only his beautiful old home but also the land of Korea where all the Korean people would enjoy a happy life.
The President fought his way across tens of thousands of ri in the bloody war against the Japanese imperialists in order to accomplish the historic cause of liberating the country. Although he accomplished such a great cause, he visited the Kangson Steel Works first with his home village in his eyesight, saying that a country was more important than a home village.
It was not until the President accomplished the historic cause of founding the Communist Party in our country and gave his first address to the people in the homeland that he visited Mangyongdae, his old home.
The President drove to the ferry on the Sunhwa River and went to Mangyongdae by boat with his uncle and aunt. The rhythmic sound of a washerwoman's club and fragrant smell of young trees on Mangyong Hill made him feel a lump in his throat. A child of only two or three years old waved to his group, which had an impact on his heart. He felt as if he was seeing the symbol of a new Korea, the land of peace and beauty.
With his heart beating wildly, he entered the yard of his old home, which he missed even in the fierce blizzards of Mt Paektu.
Having hallucinations that his father and mother who used to sing Lullaby to him and breathe upon his frozen hands were running towards him shouting "Song Ju!" and embracing him in their broad arms, the great leader could not step inside easily.
His grandfather came out into the courtyard barefoot and hugged him. His grandmother, too, burst into tears, saying "How have you come alone? Where have you left your father and mother?"
In his reminiscences "With the Century" the President said that when members of the family said farewell to his grandfather and grandmother and left the house, they would walk out through the brushwood gate in high spirits, saying that they would return after liberating the country, but he was the only one who returned.
It was such a heart-rending pain that after that, whenever he passed through the gate of someone else's home, he would wonder how many members of the family had gone out through that gate and how many of them had returned.
The tearful picture was like an impressive epic that tells us that the President fought his way across tens of thousands of ri in the bloody war against the Japanese imperialists and his patriotism was so sublime and ardent.
Since he left his native place, the President devoted all his life to the country's prosperity and people's happiness with a patriotic ambition in his mind.
Under his wise leadership, Korean people have become the most dignified and happiest people in the world, and our fatherland has laid unshakable foundations for the prosperity and proudly emerged into a bright future.
Korean people will look up to President
