Juche

    Benefits of free medical care

    One day in January, 1952 President Kim Il Sung summoned an official of the Ministry of Public Health to say that the Korean people were striving at the cost of their lives for the victory in the war and there was nothing to spare for such patriotic and devoted people. And the President told him to enforce the free medical services though the country was in wartime.

    At the moment the official was so amazed.

    The President asked him how much the national doctor’s fee was.

    Hearing of his answer, the President affectionately told him that the condition was difficult, but it was necessary to enforce the free medical services in order to positively protect and improve people’s lives. He continued to say that nothing was more precious than the people’s lives and instructed to make good preparations for it.

    Later a decision No.203 of the Cabinet “On Enforcing Free Medical Care System” was adopted and thus the long desire of the Korean people to live a long and healthy life thanks to the free medical care could be translated into reality.

    

    

    A match-stick

    One day in May, 1952 President Kim Il Sung was reported the real state of match production by an official in the sector of the light industry. He anxiously said that the soldiers of the People’s Army in the front failed to smoke and the people in the rear suffered from difficulties in their lives for the lack of the matches.

    He said that a match is an important necessity indispensable in daily life of the people. And he made him aware of that a daily life of housewives and other many people starts with lighting a match after getting up in the morning and the match takes up an important position in the production of wartime consumer goods. The President told him to solve the problem by reallocating linden trees for munitions. And he ardently said that the people and the soldiers would be very pleased if many matches were produced and sent to the front and the rear.

    

    Best things to the bereaved children

    In spring of one year in the middle of the war President Kim Il Sung personally looked the samples of relief goods to be sent to the school of bereaved children though he was so busy.

    He told the officials that they weren’t regularly supplied with the clothes and a proper measure for medical treatment was not taken when he had been to the school and the orphanage before some time. And he told them to take good care of the children on behalf of their parents, saying that it was heartrending that they had lost their parents due to the Yankees.

    Looking at the medicines, shoes and suits on display, the President said it was necessary to supply new suits for the children and it was possible to make them when mobilizing cloth producers’ cooperatives and the members of the women’s union. And he also taught the way to do so.

    After a while, he picked up a pair of shoes to acquaint himself with the quantity and the size and told the officials to send the best and durable shoes to the bereaved children first.

    He took special measures of appointing the chief delegate who would take the materials to the school.

    Thanks to the love of the President, the children grew up while studying to their hearts’ contents even in the difficult conditions of the war.

    

    President Kim Il Sung himself selected the site of the brick factory

    One day when the country was in flames of the war, President Kim Il Sung summoned an official concerned to give a benevolent instruction to rehabilitate the terribly-destroyed national economy after the war and stabilize the deteriorated standards of the people’s living.

    He said that the present brick factory could not satisfy the demand for bricks, so it was necessary to expand the Taesong Ceramic Factory in a large scale and at the same time to build a brick factory in Kangnam County. And he taught in detail the big and small issues including the construction site of the factory, raw materials and the conditions for transport, etc.

    One day, the President went to the Kangnam Plain to appoint the site for the brick factory.

    The Korean people can not forget forever the lofty image of the President who went without hesitation to the dangerous place through the hail of bullets, thinking how he could provide the people with the good houses as early as possible.

    Thanks to the devotional efforts of the President, the Korean people could establish a powerful base for bricks production and their livelihood could also be stabilized rapidly after the war.