On the day of the election for deputies to the first Supreme People's Assembly

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Indeed, Comrade Kim Il Sung was the great leader of the revolution, the benevolent father of the people and a peerlessly great man admired by everyone, whose equal has never been recorded in history."

President Kim Il Sung was deeply revered by the Korean people and the world progressives for his great exploits he performed for the country and people all his life and for his great contribution to accomplishing the cause of global independence. However, he always lived a humble and simple life just as the people did, without allowing any privileges.

His boundlessly humble traits can also be found from the story on the day of the election for deputies to the first Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.

The original idea of building a people's government, which President Kim Il Sung had matured from the days of the anti-Japanese war, was successfully implemented on the liberated homeland. And on August 25, 1948, the election for deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly was held for the first time so that our people could elect their true representatives.

Earlier that morning, the President arrived at the Election Station No. 10 of the Seventh District in Sadong-ri 2 (then) in Pyongyang to take part in the election.

When he arrived, the cheers of the electors resounded through the morning air. They burst into such ardent cheer to see President, a grateful benefactor who set them up as the legitimate master of the country who had lived under all sorts of maltreatment and absence of rights during the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule.

Responding to the thunderous cheers of the masses, he reached the entrance to the polling station. He was heading for the polling booth when he stopped and exchanged greetings with the members of the constituencies and sub constituencies. President, who was walking towards the polling booth, stopped at the sight of a white silk spread upon the floor of the corridor for a while.

Despite the unanimous sincerity of all the electors, the President said that silk should be used by the people to make clothes, and that he shouldn't step on it.

Every single word of his tells us how humble he was. Actually he gave up all kinds of privileges and he didn't allow any encroachment on the interests of the people.

This was a noble trait that could be shown only by President who devoted his all to the happiness of the people and the prosperity of the generations to come, regarding it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in Heaven.

President's humble traits served as a motive to ensure that the DPRK government to be formed should give the highest and absolute priority to the dignity and rights of the people and their demands and interests.