Called Educator Family, Patriot Family

Today, in the DPRK there are a number of families who devote themselves to the welfare of the nation while taking over their parents' jobs and carrying them forward, including those of military personnel who defend the country, atheletes who add glory to the fatherland and road cleaners such as the family of Kubong Pass left with the footprints of the great leaders.

Among them are educator families who spend their lifetime working faithfully for the education of the rising generation.

Here is a typical family the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un called educator family affectionately and held up as a patriot family.

On September 4, Juche101(2012), the respected General Secretary visited Changjon Street to see how people live there after house-moving, busy as he was guiding the affairs of the Party, state and army.

It was the family of Sim Tong Su, a lecturer at Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering, whose wife and daughters worked as teachers that he visited among so many families who had moved in the new street lined with modern high-rise apartment buildings.

Little did the family dream of such a thing that they felt a deep gratitude to him and hurriedly went out to the corridor to meet him, primping themselves.

When they expressed thanks for his visiting their home, the respected General Secretary took them by the hand kindly, saying that he came there because he wanted to see them who had moved into Changjon Street.

Then he entered the house and looked round every room, warmly asking how many rooms they had and if they had any problems in life, for example, power or something like that, like the parent who visited his own son's.

Hearing them say that they had no problem and had not dreamt of living in such a luxurious house of five rooms, the respected General Secretary's face beamed with a big pleasure.

He found himself in the washroom and left the tap open in person, then satisfied to see water running out of the tap, even touching the water with his hand, and came back to the living room.

Being greeted by the second daughter who arrived at home late, the respected General Secretary led Sim's mother-in-law who was near eighty by the hand to the sofa and seated himself beside her, too, and asked Sim what kind of work his wife and daughters did.

Hearing that his wife was a teacher at Pyongyang Tongdaewon Middle School(at that time), the first daughter a teacher at Pyongyang Saesallim Middle School and the second a teacher at the branch school of Phyongchon College of Technology, he was very contented with the fact that all the family members were educators, calling them the educator family.

He asked them, who were full of deep pride, if they only had daughters. Hearing that their son was serving in the Korean People's Army, he said all the family members were teachers except the son and such a family was not easy to see.

Then, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said.

"At present our Party attaches great importance to the educational work. Education is an important undertaking related to the prosperity of a country."

That day he was acquainted himself with what subjects Sim's wife and daughters taught. Informed that his wife was a physics teacher and both of daughters maths teachers, he said that they taught very important subjects, such as maths and physics, and had a trust that they would fulfil their duty as befit the teachers of the educator family.

When he called them, the ordinary teachers, "teachers" warm-heartedly, they felt strongly how much the respected General Secretary gives priority to education and how much he treats teachers with respect.

Soon afterwards, he changed his seat from the sofa to the floor and said that the floor was rather cold. Feeling concern about the cold temperature of the house in winter, he offered the old grandmother a cushion and asked if there was anything uncomfortable in life.

Sim's wife answered that there was nothing uncomfortable at all, full of tears in gratitude for his benevolent love to give the ordinary family, who had done nothing special to contribute to education except trying to work faithfully, a good house in Changjon Street free of charge and concerning about if there was anything inconvenient in life.

Saying that if the family were pleased with the house, he was happy, too, he added in a sorrowful voice that it was the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il who appointed the site for the Changjon Street in person and guided all the projects including buidling work but he never came to see the completed street.

Sim and his family could not hold back their tears, yearning after the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il who devoted his lifetime to the welfare of people and passed away unexpectedly, as well as being thankful to the respected General Secretary who makes evry possible effort to enable the people to enjoy a happy life to their hearts' content in the superior socialist society as wished by the great leader in his lifetime. To them, he said that if possible, the great leader would have come first, that's why he thought he would take his place to visit the street, and that when the people moved into new houses, he originally decided to visit them with senior officials from the Party, state and army, but he was late because he was very busy inspecting the front zones because of tense situation. Though he was informed from the officials who made rounds the newly moved families that people were very happy about their new houses, he wanted to visit the street and hear the people living there personally, he added.

Continuing that it was the Koreans' tradition to give a box of matches to a house-moving family, so he, too, took it like the great General who used to, he gave it to the family and proposed a toast to them with wine he brought personally.

Seeing them feeling very happy with a toast, he said that he also carried a colour TV, a set of dishes and pictorial books for children with him and opened a carton of world fine juvenile tales. He continued that unfortunately, they had no grandchildren old enough to read these books, so it had better keep them until they would be born.

When Sim's wife was admired to see a set of dishes, the respected General Secretary said there was another one and had the TV carried into the room. Hearing that the grandmother was keenest on watching TV, he personally appointed the place for it, saying that it would better watch TV there sitting on the sofa because too-close watching TV would hurt eyesight.

He continued that he was told much about families of military personnel and artists but little about educator families and that this family, not only parents but also daughters, work as teachers. He pointed out that educators are the patriots who devote themselves faithfully to the future of the nation whether or not they are supervised or appreciated.

Their hearts were choked with emotion when the respected General Secretary awarded all the educators the precious title, which the best sons and daughters of the nation are worth.

Awakening them to the heavy yet honorable mission of educators, he emphasized that as a gigantic tree has its root unseen, so the devotion and true feelings dedicated to the students by teachers are unseen, but will be seen by the rising generation who devote themselves to the prosperity of the nation. He continued passionately that this is the patriot family who work with conscience for the future of the nation, so he felt rewarded by visiting the family today.

Before leaving the house after posing for memorial pictures with family members, the respected General Secretary warmly took the hands of Sim Tong Su and hoped he would carry out educational work more creditably.

Seeing him off, who gave them the benevolent love and a deep trust, Sim and his family resolved to achieve a great success in education to train reliable pillars for socialist Korea by making themselves the roots supporting the beloved country, thus adding glory to the educator family.