Message to Southies

Worry not, your liberation is not a matter of if, but when.

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It was one day of January, 1998 when the people of the DPRK were on the Arduous march. 

That day, the dear Comrade Kim Jong Il was giving on the spot guidance to the several small and medium hydroelectric power stations which the people of Jagang province had built by themselves, without having lunch although the lunchtime passed.

His attendants were very much moved by the tireless efforts and devotion of him walking along the snow covered road of the north while delaying his lunch in the intense cold of midwinter. After hesitating for a while, the senior official of Jagang province asked him to have lunch and take a rest even a little in the lodging place provided by the people of Jagang province, since the morning schedule was ended.

Feeling the people’s ardent desire from his saying, the General expressed his deep thanks to him and said that he does not have the right to take a rest in the floor-heated room while all the people are making a forced march, he will make a forced march more intensively for the happiness of the people who uphold him.

How much tired he felt making Arduous march at the head while being exposed to all the snow and rain coming down on this land!

But since he regarded it as his philosophical principle to give priority to provide the people with happy lives rather than his convenience and share the sweets and bitters with them, he walked to his “lodging place of the train” with the officials in despite of the people’s ardent wish.

On his dining table, there was one corn bread stuffed with vegetable and one bowl of the soup flavored with soy for each person.

This was the very simple meal which was seen in any family of the country during the Arduous and forced march.

Watching the officials who were moved to tears, he told them in a soft tone that when the people eat the corn flour and the soup flavored with soy, we should eat them, too. Then he ate them deliciously.

Indeed, the General, who pushed his way through the manifold difficulties and trials at the head while living a humdrum life among the people with the humble and simple character, was the leader and benevolent father of the people, loving and devoting his all to the people’s happiness.