A Criterion for the Appraisal of Taste

One November day in 2015 Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un visited the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory and dropped in at a sample products room. It had various kinds of the sample foodstuffs for children produced at a modern new workshop of the factory.

Kim Jong Un inspected them one by one. He told an official that it was high time for the factory to diversify its products. He added that since it modernized its production processes and established the system for the analysis of its products, too, the factory could meet the demand of nutrition and hygienics for its products and that it must set itself a new goal for the production of delicious foodstuffs and compete with other countries in taste.

Listening to Kim Jong Un the official pondered over a criterion for competition.

As if reading his heart Kim Jong Un said clearly that the palate of children could not be deceived, that nobody outdid them in a nice sense of taste and that even newborns had a good sense of taste despite their dumbness. He pointed out that if children preferred the milk powder of other countries to that of this factory it showed that the latter was inferior in taste to the former and that a criterion for the appraisal of the taste of the products of the factory was whether it was children’ favorite or not.

The officials were deeply moved by these words.

Being a Real Father of the Korean Children

Kim Jong Un visited the Ryugyong Dental Hospital one day in March 2014.

A man was at a loss what to do because he saw Kim Jong Un there too unexpectedly, He said that a girl now under treatment was his daughter.

Kim Jong Un asked him what school his daughter attended and what tooth disease she had. He said that the responsibility and role of parents were important in that they taught their children to take good care of their teeth.

Listening to Kim Jong Un the man blamed himself for not paying attention to his daughter’s teeth. He believed that dental education was the work of her school.

It has been said from olden times that strong teeth belong to five blessings—longevity, wealth, health, good offspring and peaceful death.

It is also important to teach common knowledge of dental hygiene well in kindergartens and schools but the responsibility and role of parents, too, are great at home in that regard.

Kim Jong Un perceived that the man was sorry for his wrongdoing. He said that parents should always pay heed to the teeth of their children, not expecting schools to teach them how to tend them.

Indeed, Kim Jong Un is a great real father of all the children in the DPRK.

O Mun Il