Ri Po Ik, Grandmother of Kim Il Sung
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Ri Po Ik, born on May 31, 1876, was an ardent patriot who saw off her children and grandchildren on the road to revolution and remained true to the principles of the revolutionary family of Mangyongdae and the spirit of the Korean nation in any adversity. She, grandmother of President Kim Il Sung, willingly devoted her life to the care of her children and grandchildren, who fought a bloody battle for national liberation.
She was never disappointed at the news that her children were put into jail and when she did not know their fate. She saw off her grandchildren on the very road covered by her elder son and unyieldingly fought against the Japanese imperialists.
It was in a winter in the latter half of the 1930s when the Japanese imperialists let renegades to the revolution launch a massive campaign for "surrender" against the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. They resorted to every possible means to inveigle her into the campaign.
The Japanese imperialists failed to bend her strong will with any appeasement, blackmail and threat. They forced her in her sixties into the blizzards of Manchuria where the temperature was around 40 degrees below zero.
She shouted at the enemies that she could not enter mountains as it was cold and she was tired. When they served Japanese dishes to her, she demanded them of Korean dishes.
After then they forced her again to go to rugged mountains of North Jiandao. She overcame all hardships with fortitude for months without yielding to the enemies like a mother and a grandmother of revolutionaries.
The upright life of Ri owes to her invariable faith that the struggle for sovereignty of the nation is just and sure to be crowned with victory.
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