Former Kitchen Maid Sits on Throne of Empress

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great leader of the people who put forward the masses, once oppressed and exploited, as the masters of history, and raised their dignity and value to the highest level possible."

President Kim Il Sung was the great leader of the Korean people who liberated Korea from the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule by leading to victory the anti-Japanese revolutionary war for defeating the Japanese aggressors, put forward the Korean people who were oppressed and maltreated as masters of the country and history, and glorified their dignity and value on the highest level.

Many stories are told about the President who put forward the oppressed and maltreated Korean people as masters of the country and added brilliance to the dignity and value of the masses of the people on the highest level. Among them is the one about an ordinary woman peasant, who had been maltreated as a poor wretch and kitchen maid under Japanese colonial rule and feudal fetters, but was later placed on the throne of Empress Ekaterina by the President.

One year when he was staying in the Soviet Union, he called a DPRK women delegation staying in the country to take part in the International Women's Union Council meeting to be held in Hungary.

When he met the delegation, Kim Il Sung gave precious instructions on foreign affairs. Saying that the lodging had been the palace of Queen Ekaterina, he suddenly asked Kim Tuk Ran, a member of the delegation, to sit on a chair as he indicated it. When Kim Tuk Ran was at a loss, the President smiled and asked her to sit on the chair with such a gold rim, saying that she would have never sat on such chair.

When the President offered the seat repeatedly, she carefully sat on the throne of Queen Ekaterina after a brief hesitation.

The President laughed a hearty laugh with a broad smile on his face, and said that she looked like a queen there.

Though the President smiled broadly, Kim Tuk Ran on the throne could not hold back uncontrollable tears.

At that time, she remembered her mother suddenly.

When she was born as the eighth child of her parents, her mother breathed a heavy sigh of grief. Her future could not be guaranteed as her family was so poor and due to the old practice of treating women as inferior to men.

Her mother who had lamented the family's poor plight might have made a deep bow to the President, if she had seen her daughter sitting on the throne, Kim Tuk Ran thought.

She could grow up as the first woman deputy of the DPRK under the care of Kim Il Sung, though she had been a kitchen maid subjected to social maltreatment and discrimination and feudal oppression for the mere reason that she was a poor girl.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung was the great leader and benevolent father of the Korean people, who built a genuine people's country for the first time in human history and glorified the dignity and value of the masses of the people on the highest level.