Thursday 24 July 2014

Father of Soldiers



54 years have elapsed since leader Kim Jong Il started his Songun-based revolutionary leadership with a visit to Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division of the KPA on August 25, Juche 49(1960).
From the historic day till the last period of life Kim Jong Il went wherever soldiers lived, looking after their life with parental affection.
One spring day in Juche 84(1995) he dropped in at a women’s coast artillery company on the tour of his Songun-based revolutionary leadership and took a measure for the soldiers to come up to Pyongyang for relaxation.
He mapped out a schedule for their tour and instructed officials to make an able cameraman accompany them to take souvenir photographs of them and provide photograph albums to them.
The soldiers spent a good time. When they were to return, the soldiers received photograph albums, collective and individual, from Kim Jong Il.
Opening the albums, every soldier was surprised to find the first page blank.
An official told them how it was.
Kim Jong Il had seen a company photograph album and small individual photograph albums showing girl soldiers smiling in happiness.
Examining the composition of photographs and their color and the quality of print paper, he watched an individual photograph on the first page and was lost in thought.
After a while he suggested leaving the first page blank, saying:
In the future the girl soldiers would be discharged from service. They would marry and have wedding picture taken. Then, it would be very significant to put the wedding picture on the blank page, I think.”
Like this, Kim Jong Il, seeing photograph albums, took a quite scrupulous interest in the future of girl soldiers as their father rather than their Supreme Commander.
That’s why the soldiers of the Korean People’s Army call him their father, trusting in him absolutely and supporting his ideas and leadership more faithfully than anybody else.
Kim Jong Il’s Songun-based revolutionary leadership was a proud history of forming a harmonious whole with soldiers and emerging victorious by dint of its strength.
The history will continue under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army who is just the same with leader Kim Jong Il.

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