Noble Personality

Noble Personality

The noble personality of President Kim Il Sung attracted all compatriots and foreigners, even conservative figures of hostile countries.
One day in December 1991 Mun Son Myong, a Korean resident in the United States arrived in Pyongyang to visit his hometown as president of the World Peace Federation.
Born in Jongju, North Phyongan Province, DPRK he had gone to south Korea during the past Korean war and spent his whole life on the road of anti-communism as founder of the religion of “Unification Church”.
The world was startled at the news of his arrival in Pyongyang.
Though his sin was too serious to be forgiven, President Kim Il Sung made much of his hope to visit his hometown even in the evening of his life and allowed him to visit his country.
The President also sent a special plane for fear that Mun should feel any inconvenience on his way to Pyongyang and saw to it that high-ranking officials warmly met him.
Staying in his hometown several days under the care of the President, he earnestly wished to get an opportunity to see him.
Nevertheless, Korean officials did not even imagine that he would be allowed to see the President because of his wrong past.
Informed of it, the President met him one day in December 1991.
During the meeting Mun Son Myong offered thanks to the President for meeting him who had been on the road of anti-communism all his life and told him that he came to know the large magnanimity and great affection and personality of the President for the first time.
Expressing thanks for it, the President said if we unite, our two men’s strength would be greater than one’s and, in the same way, if all the Koreans unite, they are sure to reunify the country.
That day President Kim Il Sung posed for a photograph together with him and his party and gave a luncheon for them.
Newspapers on the following day spotlighted the news along with a photograph.
Foreign media said President Kim Il Sung is so magnanimous as to allow even an anti-communist to visit his hometown and meet him in disregard of all his wrongdoings. Now we understand that so many people go to Pyongyang fascinated by him like metal things attracted to magnet and the earth drawn to the sun”.
Afterwards, President Kim Il Sung said: “The division of the Korean nation is a tragedy. Now that we want to reunify the country by the efforts of the Korean nation itself, we should all unite with the same purpose in disregard of the past wrongdoings. And so I met Mun Son Myong and his party.”
Like this, President Kim Il Sung was a great father of all people as he embraced the world with his noble personality.