(1888PressRelease)
April 17, 2007 - The 3rd U-20 World Women’s Football Championship was held in September last year in Russia.
Korean women footballers beat the Chinese team 5:0 in the finals and shook the world football society.
After the awarding ceremony, when reporters asked the Korean girls about the secret of their victory, they answered, “We won because we played, yearning for our leader Kim Jong Il and our socialist Korea.”
The expression of their simple and genuine mind, “yearning for our leader Kim Jong Il”, was not only limited to them.
Jong Song Ok, DPRK Heroine and People’s Athlete, made a sensation worldwide by saying that she had run, yearning for the leader Kim Jong Il, leader of the Korean nation, after she came first in the 7th World Track and Field Championships in Seville, Spain, eight years ago.
The Korean people’s yearning for Kim Jong Il is the reflection of their boundless respect for and trust in him.
Kim Jong Il paid an official visit to the Russian Federation in Juche 90 (2001).
During the period all the Koreans were thinking how they could make the leader happy when he returned.
Agricultural and industrial workers, army soldiers and even schoolchildren were all engaged in their work day and night to give joy to him.
Kim Sok Ju, a poet, sang in his poem of the feelings of the Korean people.
Is yearning waiting,
Or is waiting yearning?
It is affection and love, blood and flesh
That bind them together.
And their yearning makes carpeted roads.
We’ve all waited for you
On the Chwiya Plain full of golden ears of rice,
In the happy Kumjin River,
On the potato fields in Tae- hongdan
And at children’s foodstuff factories.
The whole land began to wait for you that moment you left
With fragrant flowers in hands.
That was an eager waiting,
That was a happy waiting.
Oh, you have come back, our father.
You have returned.
News stalls were crowded every day with those who wanted to know the news from the leader, and the TV rating was raised several times.
One of the foreign media reported:
“It is enough to drink a mere drop in the ocean to prove its saltiness. It is an international practice for statesmen to visit foreign countries.
Therefore, it is a unique event unprecedented in the world—the whole Korea yearned for its leader on his visit to a foreign country. That is the ‘nuclear weapon’ of Korea the reactionaries of history are so afraid of.”
The leader Kim Jong Il, when he returned home, said that he never once kept his country and people off his mind even for a moment.
The Korean people think of their leader even in their dream and sing songs yearning for him.
One November night, Juche 86(1997), Ri Yong Ae, a guide at the Yombun Revolutionary Site, had a dream of meeting Kim Jong Il.
She woke and told her husband of her real-like dream. Her husband, too, said he had heard an unusual train whistle and told her to go to her workplace without delay.
Hardly had she arrived at the site when several cars drove in there.
She could not believe her own eyes when she saw the people getting off the cars.
The leader Kim Jong Il was approaching her with a broad smile on his face.
Yong Ae ran up to him at a breath and told him about her dream.
Hearing her story, the leader laughed heartily, saying that she had had a good dream.
It was one of the numerous anecdotes that dreams of yearning for the leader came true. Wherever they are, they look forward to seeing their leader.
In Korea people often write to the leader to communicate with him. Children who are learning the ABC, young scientists in their 20s, unassuming heroes, pacemakers of the era, former unconverted long-term prisoners, Japanese women residing in Korea—not only specific class or section of the population but all the Koreans frankly open their hearts to the leader.
Reading the people’s minds from their letters, Kim Jong Il administers the politics of love and trust, an all-embracing politics.
His autographic letters sent to the people encourage them greatly to the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
The leader always cares for his people, and the people yearn for their leader—this single-hearted unity is the source of the elasticity of the Korean people overcoming all kinds of hardships optimistically.
