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Kim Rak Hui, Initiator of Plowwoman Movement

Date: 20/02/2013 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (En) | Read original version at source

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Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Rak Hui (Nov. 1933-Feb. 2013) was a peasant who rose to fame as a plowwoman during the period of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953).
Born in a rural community in South Phyongan Province, she worked as a weaver in her teens.

She began the plowwoman movement in March Juche 40 (1951) to contribute to supplying food to the People's Army in the war. She attended a meeting of frontrunner farmers held in 1952 and was highly praised by President Kim Il Sung for her devoted service.

Later, she was honored to receive a letter of thanks from the President for her big contributions to providing much relief food to the warfront.

In the post-war period, she overfulfilled grain output quota each year, as the chairwoman of an agricultural cooperative.

Under deep trust of the President and leader Kim Jong Il, she became a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly and had worked as chairwoman of a county cooperative farm management committee, chairwoman of a provincial rural economy committee, deputy director of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea, chief secretary of the South Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK, and vice-premier and honorary councilor of the DPRK Cabinet.

She was awarded a lot of state citations, including Order of Kim Il Sung, Order of Kim Jong Il, title of Labor Hero and Order of National Flag 1st Class.

Some days ago, the dear respected Kim Jong Un sent a wreath to the bier of Kim Rak Hui to express his deep condolences over her death.

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