A Branch School

A Branch School

Leader Kim Jong Il regarded President Kim Il Sung’s thought of “The people are my God” as the basic idea in party and state building and brought it into reality.

A school called “Undok Branch School” was built at Namsandong village in Sohung County, North Hwanghae Province, DPRK.

Till the early 1960s the Namsandong area had been a desolate place with no house.

One winter day President Kim Il Sung visited it and said if modern houses for the local people are built in the sunny and secluded place, it would be very good.

He fixed the site of a village and found out a well.

That is how a new village for a few people came into being at Namsandong.

After moving into new houses the villagers built a new house with the utmost sincerity at the sunny foot of a hill.

They eagerly wished to see President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in their scenic place and offer the greetings of thanks to them even once.

One day in October 1981 Kim Jong Il called at the village during his on-the-spot guidance tour of North Hwanghae Province.

Officials told him about a new house built by local people with sincerity.

The officials requested him to take a rest there even for a while.

At this Kim Jong Il expressed his full understanding of the minds of the villagers and suggested using the house significantly.

Saying he doesn’t care a bit about a resting place, Kim Jong Il suggested using the house as a kindergarten for village children.

Answered that there were well-furnished kindergarten and nursery, he asked where the school for village children was.

At the reply that they were attending a school in the seat of ri not so far from the village, Kim Jong Il suggested using the house as branch school, saying it would please President Kim Il Sung.

After that the house became a school for Namsandong children.

With a single desire to tell of the benevolence of Kim Jong Il generation after generation the villagers named the school Undok Branch School.

Thinking of nothing for his own interests, Kim Jong Il worried about the road to the school for a few children in the remote mountain area.

Like this, Kim Jong Il was the people’s leader who had devoted his all for society throughout his life in support of President Kim Il Sung’s thought of “The people are my God”.