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Chilgol Revolutionary Site

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- The Chilgol Revolutionary Site in Pyongyang has been visited by an endless stream of Korean servicemen and people, overseas compatriots and foreigners. In Chilgol Kang Pan Sok, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and prominent leader of the Korean women's emancipation movement, was born and spent her childhood. In the revolutionary site is also a house where President Kim Il Sung stayed during his Changdok School days after coming back to the fatherland by making a 250-mile journey for learning alone at the age of 11.
    Kang Pan Sok was wife and comrade-in-arms of Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement, mother of Kim Il Sung, a great revolutionary, and the chairwoman of the Anti-Japanese Women's Association, the first revolutionary organization of women in Korea.
    She dedicated her whole life to the liberation of the country, the happiness of the people and the emancipation of the women in defiance of all difficulties and danger.
    On the occasion of her 112th birth anniversary (April 21, 1892), Pak Kyong Ae, a section chief of the Chilgol Revolutionary Museum, had an interview with KCNA. According to her, the visitors to the revolutionary site over the past five decades total more than 12,272,000, some 52,000 overseas compatriots belonging to about 400 organizations and 18,000 odd foreigners included.
    The visitors make a bow to her statue standing in front of her old home.
    Kim Chung Song, an officer of the Korean People's Army, said after visiting the revolutionary site:
    The Korean people's pride of having had great leaders and brilliant commanders through generations is unthinkable without Kang Pan Sok, mother of Korea.
    We servicemen will always remain infinitely faithful to leader Kim Jong Il, as the first and second generations of the Korean revolution did to President Kim Il Sung, true to the noble intention of Kang Pan Sok.
    Jong Mun San, chief secretary of the Cabinet, said the great image of Kang Pan Sok would always be kept in the mind of the people and that the Korean people would fully demonstrate the honor of Kim Il Sung's Korea by making a rapid progress in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.