A Speech Given at the Native Home Returned in 20 Years

President Kim Il Sung said:

"The 40 years that took to win back the lost country and the 20 years that took me to regain my native home seemed too long."

The native home which President Kim Il Sung returned in 20 years.

At that time, a paper "Pyongyang Minbo" carried an article about his visit to Mangyongdae.

"The flowering house of the revolutionary.

.... The fields is covered with all sorts of ripe cereals and the autumn sky was very clear. Where the mountains and streams are beautiful, a hero comes out, at last General Kim Il Sung was born in beautiful Mangyongdae. Hearing that the General is coming, all the villagers including the young and the old, and the men and the women go to the entrance to the village to greet him.

...hug, greeting and enthusiastic cheers.

...they give cheers of joy and blessing to their hearts' content.

From today Mangyongdae is honored to be not only Korea's Mangyongdae but also the world's Mangyongdae…

That day the scene was the dramatic and historic of the century."

After returning in triumph to the liberated homeland, his visit to the old home at Mangyongdae carries impressive stories through the history.

On October 15th 1945, as it dawned, villagers began to visit the old home at Mangyongdae to meet President Kim Il Sung so the path was crowded.

A straw mat was spread on the Korean-style veranda at home.

The young people in the village wanted to prepare a tall table, but they didn't realize their intention because President didn't want to set another place and put anything.

It was too simple for the meeting in the presence of a grand commander and national hero who had control over a million of Japanese imperialist troops.

At about nine o'clock, the native home was full of the villagers from Namri and neighborhoods both inside and outside, and the reception began.

Following congratulatory speeches welcoming President Kim Il Sung, the President replied to the cheering masses and began his speech.

During the long and arduous struggle to restore the country deprived by the Japanese imperialist aggressors, the anti-Japanese guerrillas fought against the Japanese imperialists in a fierce battle with grass roots and bark for a meal, and even when they were on a hard march, they always thought of their native home and homeland where they had grown up, from which they had gained strength and courage. Listening to his speech, the warm tears ran out of the people's faces.

As a storm of applause burst, President Kim Il Sung said that we were going to build a prosperous new Korea on the liberated land where the working masses, including workers and peasants who had been maltreated in the past, would live a free and happy life, and that we were convinced that they would achieve a great success in building Mangyongdae as the good village to live and a democratic new Korea by uniting as one under the banner of democracy.

Soon the cheer of "Long Live General Kim Il Sung" echoed on Mangyong Hill.

The significant speech made by the President at his native home that he returned in 20 years got the people of Mangyongdae and the whole country to clearly look ahead at the bright future of the new Korea.