Elixir of Love
Among the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who led a dignified life under the care of the Party is Choe In Dok.
In early spring in １９４０, Choe got injured in his left thigh in a battle.
The more he walked through the snow, the more the wound hurt and the fainter he felt. He fell behind the ranks before he recognized it.
After being informed that he had been injured, President
The surgeon brought to Choe the injection sent by the President, which the comrades secured staking their lives for the health of the President.
It had been kept precious for a long time in spite of difficult conditions.
Choe shook off the hand of the surgeon who was to administer the injection to him.
He cried that the victory of the Korean revolution and the historic cause of national liberation were unthinkable apart from the wellbeing of the President.
The surgeon held Choe by the arm and said in tears that it was the order given by the President to apply the injection to him.
Receiving the order of love, Choe burst into tears.
The injection applied to him was literally the warm love of the President for him and an elixir infusing faith and will with which to defy even death.
Choe, who had fallen asleep near the campfire that night, opened his eyes hearing the President calling him.
The President felt him by the forehead and instructed to properly treat his serious wound.
When the surgeon started the operation, the President held Choe close and gently encouraged him to endure the pain, for he could join the struggle against the enemies again if he got better soon.
Thanks to his warm love, Choe could stand the unendurable pain till the end.
After a few days, the guerrilla members obtained several gourd bowls of glutinous rice during the food-securing operation.
The President, so glad, told them to steam the rice all at once.
Then he personally made rice cake with the members and brought it intact to the place where Choe and other injured members were.
He shared the rice cake to the injured members, cheering them up saying glutinous rice cake was good for granulation.
However, nobody could readily take the rice cake.
The fighters told the President tearfully they would take the rice cake only after the President had it.
The President replied that he had already had the rice cake and that it tasted so nice because it was obtained with much effort.
He left only after seeing the injured members have the rice cake.
Indeed, as they grew up into genuine persons and steel-strong fighters under the benevolent care of the President, the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters could cover the single road of unchangeable loyalty, faith and obligation in whatever circumstances and environment, even if they were left alone on an isolated island or stood on the scaffold.
Rodong Sinmun