Chairman
"Our leader Comrade
On his journey for the revolution, President
On January 29, 1962, when he visited Ohyon-ri, Yonan County, South Hwanghae Province, he walked into the farm shop to learn its detailed situations and the shop assistants’ family affairs. While talking, he was told that a salesgirl’s father had been slaughtered by the Yankees during the strategic temporary retreat of the war and she hadn’t finished the school. He kept silence in thought for a while. Then he asked her if she wanted to go to school.
When she said that she wanted to study again, he told her that she should study hard at school to be a good personnel. He continued to tell the accompanying officials that they should look after her in place of her father and let her study at the then People's Economy School.
He suggested that she should pack her luggage to leave with him that evening. Then he asked her how many families were in such a situation in the village.
She told him in details about the living conditions of a woman in a next village, who had been blind for a few years. She had been deprived of her husband and had even suffered from the evil acts by the enemies during the war.
He said to take the woman to Pyongyang by car so that she could have her eyes treated. After that he got out of the shop.
That evening the President sat together with the war-bereaved families in the village of Ohyon ri.
After getting firsthand information on the livelihood of the salesgirl's mother, he kindly asked her if she could live alone while her children studied at the school for the bereaved children. And then he told her that she should take the lead in the revolutionary work and bring up her children into good workers as she was a member of the war-bereaved family.
Looking sadly at the blind woman from the next village, he kind-heartedly told her that she should go to Pyongyang at once to have her eyes treated and her children should also be sent to school.
Listening to him, the blind woman wiped her tears with her breast-tie and said nothing but thanks to him, "Thank you, my prime minister."
At that night he ensured that a message was sent to the military unit where her son-in-law was serving so that the blind woman could say goodbye to her daughter and son-in-law before leaving for the hospital in Pyongyang.
Not only the woman who unexpectedly met her daughter and son-in-law but all the other people in the village shed tears again and again at the boundlessly broad and deep love of the President.
After all, the blind woman's children and the salesgirl's younger brother went to the then Haeju School for Bereaved Children in the car sent by the President.
The woman was taken to the then Red Cross Hospital in Pyongyang and the salesgirl entered the People's Economy School, respectively.
That day, the President spent his precious time taking warm care of the lives of the war-bereaved families in Ohyon ri.
Indeed, the love of President
