Kim Juk Song, a war veteran resident in Ryonghung-dong No. 3, Taesong District of Pyongyang, is often invited to meetings with youth, students and housewives.
The following is a part of the speech she made at a meeting with members of the women’s union in Taesong District on February 8, founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army.
It has been over 70 years since the ceasefire.
But I have never forgotten the three years of war. When the Fatherland Liberation War broke out in June 1950, I joined the army and fought for the victory in the war, with such a faith that we were sure to win as we were led by President Kim Il Sung .
As you know, the 2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the KPA Navy was honoured with the title of the Guards Unit by destroying the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore and other warships with four torpedo boats. I served as a nurse at the proud unit.
My blood type is O. There were few nurses with such a blood type at the time, so I was always the first to offer my blood when there were patients to have operations among the injured. But I never thought it a sacrifice but my duty as a nurse.
When the re-advance began after the strategic temporary retreat, we were ordered to move the hospital.
We were busy with treatment in daytime and marched on at night. On the way, we witnessed the corpses of a large number of people who were killed by the enemy while they were fleeing. We were furiously enraged at the atrocities.
One day, I was engaged in reburying the bodies. While in work, I came across a dead woman with twins seemingly less than one year old in her embrace. I managed to release the woman’s hands that clutched at her children and washed the dirt from their faces buried in their mother’s bosom. I vowed myself to avenge her and children’s death a thousandfold.
As I get together with you, I remember women who fought bravely shoulder to shoulder with men in the life-and-death war.
When the war broke out, we women volunteered to fight at the front and performed distinguished services as nurses, signalpersons and radio operators. In the rear, they launched the plowwoman movement and rendered great assistance to the front, sometimes carrying ammunition boxes on their heads to the heights.
What motivated women to make such efforts?
It was the infinite loyalty to their leader, with which to believe in and follow him in any adversities, and the heroic patriotic spirit of sacrificing themselves to defend national dignity and sovereignty.
The gist of the spirit of defending the country is the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, patriotism and heroic self-sacrificing spirit. This is the most valuable ideological and spiritual legacy to be inherited by the descendants.
We defended the country at the cost of our blood from the aggression of the imperialist allied forces under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung . Today as we are led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , our Republic will emerge victorious in the anti-imperialist, anti-US showdown and the struggle for defending socialism. Victory is always in store for us.
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