Juche

    The native home at Mangyongdae is time-honoured place where President Kim Il Sung was born and spent his childhood fostering high aim of the revolution.

    It is preserved as it was at the foot of the beautiful Mangyong Hill.

    It was a grave keeper’s house built by a landlord in Pyongyang in the 1860s.

    Kim Ung U, the President’s great grandfather, was so poor that he moved into this house promising to look after the landlord’s mountain and graves.

    President Kim Il Sung was born in Mangyongdae on April 15, 1912 when Korea was under the Japanese imperialist colonial rule.

    With his birth, dawn was broken in Korea and the Korean people could meet a new era of history.

    The native home has the precious historic relics showing the life of the President’s family members who devoted themselves to the country and the people from generation to generation even in poverty under the Japanese colonial rule.

    The home has a main building and an annex: the main building has a kitchen and three rooms and the annex has three small barns.

    The native home at Mangyongdae which preserves the precious historic remains of the President’s revolutionary family members, the paragon patriots and revolutionaries, goes down for ever in the world along with the great revolutionary ideology and immortal achievements of President Kim Il Sung.