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Kim Jong Hyon, Student and Table Tennis Player with Disability

Date: 06/09/2021 | Source: KFPD (En) | Read original version at source

“…When I was young, I had many dreams and hopes, including those of joining the People`s Army, studying in university uniform like elder brothers and sisters do, becoming an excellent pilot to defend blue sky of my country, and becoming People`s Athlete hoisting the national flag in international competitions.After graduation of school, my friends joined the army, entered the universities and worked at factories and other workplaces. At the time I felt a pain in my heart. I seemed so miserable that my parents cast compassionate eyes at me sitting by the window all day long like a bird with broken wings.What gave me a hope was the Table Tennis Competition of Persons with Disabilities and Amateurs. The competition gave wheelchair-bound me the confidence that I can do something, and made me realize my childhood dream to be a sportsperson hoisting the national flag. The benevolent motherland brought up me, a normal disabled person, to be not only a sportsperson but also an on-line student of the faculty of economy of  Kim Il Sung University.…”This is a part of his diary two years ago when he became a student of the university. Keeping deep in the mind the determination of those days, he has polished his techniques and skill in the event of table tennis and studied hard. Now he is a sophomore of the university.

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