Next to a submerged paddy field near a dam the flag of the Workers’ Party of Korea was shedding its red colour like a light house. Why was the flag that had been fluttering as a banner of victory across the country, shedding its brilliant colour in the flood-hit area?No one ever thought that the train the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was on would stop in the area where the victims had already been evacuated and that the flag of the WPK would flutter there. The red flag reminds us of the image of the benevolent leader, who was waiting until the last victim from the flood-hit area was rescued, and his remarks at the 22nd Emergency Enlarged Political Bureau Meeting of the Eighth WPK Central Committee that the people trusted the Party and were watching the meeting. The red flag of the Workers’ Party of Korea was the Party itself, the great ...

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un looked round the food-hit area on board a small rubber boat.The people across the country grew worried when they saw him on TV putting his feet without hesitation on a staircase made temporarily with earth-filled sacks to stop flooding. Did any head of state ever step on a dangerous, slippery earthen staircase in a flood-swept place with a painful feeling for the victims and unfold a far-reaching plan to build houses for them? The staircase tells a story of his self-sacrificing devotion for the people in the face of any trials. Although the staircase was not so high, all the officials thought that it was the height they had to attain, the height of devoted service for the people.The staircase will disappear when the flood-hit area turns into a paradise of the people. But people will remember it together w...

The locals never thought that their beloved houses, work places, schools as well as roads, roadside trees and lamp posts would be flooded by muddy water. Such flooded places would usually turn into a sea of disaster, a sea of sorrow. But what are we seeing on this land?All the people of this country wept as they saw the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un inspecting a dangerous flooded area on board a small rubber boat. The self-sacrificing efforts of the great benefactor moved not only the flood victims but also other fellow people in the country to tears. Indeed, although the force of nature brought flooding to this land, but the land was not a land of misfortune but a sea of emotions. It was Kim Jong Un who had left his footprints in such a dangerous place in order to defend his people and to turn the misfo...

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un always pays close attention to providing his people with wonderful material and cultural living conditions.The following happened on October 16, Juche 103 (2014) when he visited the completed apartment buildings for the lecturers at Kim Chaek University of Technology.After receiving the greetings of a senior official of the university, he, looking at the high-rise buildings, said that the buildings were attractive and they looked like sailing boats on the Taedong River.Then he continued: These apartment houses look like a hotel; as it attaches importance to Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Party had such wonderful houses built for it; I feel very pleased to think that such wonderful flats will be provided to the teachers of the university.Hearing him, the officials recollected the painstaking efforts h...

On July 2, Juche 101 (2012), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Pyongyang Children’s Department Store prior to its inauguration.After receiving the greetings of the officials of the department store, he looked round the counters on the first floor filled with a wide variety of goods.Then he stopped before a children’s play area.The play area was newly laid out according to his instruction. When he visited the department store in late May, he referred to the need to make a play area on each floor and suggested the ways to this end, saying: It is not necessary to have a separate room for that purpose but just a hall or a certain area furnished with playground equipment will do.Later, play areas were laid out. They were furnished with various colourful pieces of playground equipment. Feasting his eyes on the play area, ...

One day in May Juche 101 (2012) the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Changjon Street prior to its inauguration.At a restaurant he sat in a chair and advised to design and make pieces of furniture convenient to use and nice-looking. At a wedding-ceremony restaurant he said with a smile that he was curious to know who would be the first to have their wedding ceremony there. Then he carefully looked at the upper part of a stand. After a while, he said to the perplexed officials that stands should have shades, and that they should install shades at outdoor stands without fail, adding that then the visitors could keep themselves out of the rain under the shades.Several days later, he came to the street again.On a balcony of a flat on the 45-storey apartment, the tallest building on the street, he enjoyed a panoramic view of the street built o...

The twin apartment buildings for the lecturers at Kim Chaek University of Technology constructed in the shape of sailing boats on the bank of the Taedong River embody the Workers’ Party of Korea’s idea of attaching importance to science and talented persons and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s painstaking efforts and benevolence for educationists. On October 16, Juche 103 (2014), he visited the completed apartment buildings to provide the teachers and researchers at the university with excellent houses. It was his third visit to them.Saying that the buildings were wonderful and they looked like sailing boats on the Taedong River, he looked round the buildings with satisfaction.In a flat on the 46th floor, the top floor, he said: It would be good to provide such flats to young teachers or researchers with small families; I heard that flat...