The emblem of the Workers' Party of Korea, which has covered only a glorious road of victory since the day of its founding, bears a brush depicting intellectuals as well as a hammer and sickle representing workers and farmers.
There are some impressive stories telling of the efforts of President
Among them was Jong Jun Thaek, who was born into a rich family before liberation, graduated from a higher technical school and worked as an ore dressing engineer in mining companies in Japan and southern Manchuria of China.
Chairman
"Jong Jun Thaek was an official with boundless loyalty to the Party and the revolution and an excellent revolutionary who had worked for a long time to support President
Just after Korea's liberation, Jong Jun Thaek, who was working at a mine, accumulated valuable data needed for the future development of the country's mining industry, including the actual conditions and prospects of different mines across the country and the measures for their technological reconstruction, and contributed to the building of a new Korea.
After being told about Jong's patriotic spirit and ardent enthusiasm for nation building,
When he went on field guidance trips, he called Jong to accompany him and gave him new tasks and taught him the methods of work.
When the anti-Party, counter-revolutionary factionalists who had sneaked into the Party rejected him and schemed to detach him from the Party, saying they could not believe the intellectual of the old society, the President met Jong in person and called on him to do the great and difficult work of building a new, democratic Korea hand in hand with him and guided him step by step.
Since then, Jong remained always loyal to the President and lived a brilliant life working at an important post of the Party and the government in charge of the country's economic planning all his life.
One day in mid-January 1973, when he was told that Jong had passed away on a business trip, the President expressed his deep regret at having lost his beloved official and highly appreciated Jong's life saying that he had worked faithfully for the Party and the state without making any mistake during the 27 years of working with him since the days just after liberation.
On the day of the funeral, as he could not repress his regret for having failed to do enough for the deceased comrade, the President told the bereaved family that he was going to let the family receive the gold star medal of Hero as usual but it would be better if he personally presented it before the bier. Then, he looked at the deceased for a while and pinned the gold star medal on Jong's chest.
Indeed, the President was a great father who held Jong Jun Thaek, who had led a miserable life as a colonial intellectual in the past, in his embrace of love and gave him an eternal life.
