Birthday of Kim Il Sung, Eternal President of DPRK

President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea devoted himself to the good of his people all his life, even on his birthday and Sundays.

April 15, 1946

This was his first birthday after Korea’s liberation from the Japanese colonial rule.

It was a unanimous wish of the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to bring pleasure to him, so Kim Jong Suk prepared a special meal for his birthday party. Informed of this, he thought for a while and told her to prepare more dishes.

The news was a great delight to all. After a few days, Kim Il Sung told Kim Jong Suk that he had the dishes prepared for a young officer’s wedding, not for his birthday.

Soon the wedding took place, instead of his birthday party.

April 15, 1955

Kim Il Sung visited the construction site for the irrigation project in South Phyongan Province early in April 1955. After acquainting himself with the supply of raw materials and the distribution of manpower, he said that materials necessary for the first-stage construction must be supplied on a preferential basis.

Later, upon learning that the first-stage construction was completed, he visited the construction site again on his birthday. He was very pleased, saying that the wish of the peasants in the Yoltusamcholli Plain came true. He underlined the need to irrigate the paddy fields before the rice-transplanting season.

This was how the locals’ long-cherished desire for water was realized in this rural area.

April 15, 1982

This was the President’s 70^th birthday, on which he had talks with the visiting foreigners.

He said them: On the occasion of my 70^th birth anniversary our people have built a maternity hospital, an ice rink and many apartment houses; I am not fond of observing my own birthday, but if everybody does such good things to mark this day, I wish I had more birthdays.