The 80th birth anniversary of Comrade Kim Jong Suk 

Article by Kim Chol Su, Juche 87 (1998)

December 24 last year was the most significant day dearly kept in the hearts of our people. The very day marked to whom our people look up as a great communist revolutionary fighter and woman hero of the anti-Japanese war. Comrade Kim Jong Suk was born on December 24, Juche 6 (1917) in  to a patriotic family on Osan Hill in Hoeryong City, North Hamgyong Province. She set out on the road of struggle in her teens and participated in the anti-Japanese revolutionary war organized and led by the great leader Comrade Kim II Sung. She is not only an ardent patriot and a distinguished national heroine who performed brilliant exploits after the country's liberation, devoting her whole life to the building of a new country, but also the mother of the revolution who gave birth to Comrade Kim Jong II, a great son of the Sun's nation, and brought him up to be the greatest successor to the revolutionary cause of Juche, equipped with pen and sword, loyal and dutiful. 

Comrade Kim Jong Suk was also a daughter, sister and mother of the people, who had always shared life and death, sweets and bitters with her people and devoted her whole life to them. Greeting her 80th birthday colourful functions, including meetings, rallies, evening entertainments, art performances and meetings to make vow and resolution, were held grandly in all parts of the country. 

In the morning of December 24 at the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong in Pyongyang, a ceremony of paying homage to a great communist revolutionary fighter Comrade Kim Jong Suk and pledging loyalty was performed solemnly by the officers and men of three services of the Korean People's Army. Present at the ceremony were senior Party and state officials; members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang; senior officials of the WPK Central Committee, military organs and central organs; anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters; commanders of the KPA branches of arms and services; and KPA generals, officers and men. In his speech delivered at the ceremony KPA Vice-Marshal Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA General Political Department, expressed an iron will that the People's Army, as the pillar and main force of the Korean revolution, would make an active contribution to the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche along the Party, holding aloft the revolutionary red banner shone with the whole lives of the great leader Comrade Kim II Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Suk and with the steel strong faith and will of our Party in whatever adverse situation. 

Prior to this, a meeting of the WPK, the KPA and the Kim II Sung Socialist Youth League to pay homage to a great communist revolutionary fighter Comrade Kim Jong Suk and pledge loyalty was held on December 20 in Hoeryong City. All the functions manifested the firm faith and will of our people and KPA officers and men to make their country and nation powerful and prosperous under the seasoned and tested leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong II, regarding the lofty revolu­tionary spirit and noble traits of Comrade Kim Jong Suk as a good exam­ple of their life and struggle.