Kyongru-dong is the name of administrative section of the terraced residential district built for the first time in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

There had been a residence used by the great leader Kim Il Sung, the founder of the DPRK, for a long time.

Modern terraced houses were built there and provided to labour innovators and meritorious persons in April 2022 nearly 30 years after Kim Il Sung passed away on July 8, 1994.

The family of Ryang Pong Jin, Dean of the Pyongyang University of Architecture, is living in Flat No. 2 on the first floor at People's Neighbourhood Unit No. 12.

His grandson, who is a first-year pupil of a primary school, came back home with full marks in his study, making the whole family happy.

Ri Sang Suk said they would bring up their grandson to be an architect like his grandfather and father and added that they long for Kim Il Sung all the more along with greater happiness they enjoy. She continued:

"I still remember that my grandparents and parents were moved to tears, seeing us provided with school uniforms given by the great leader Kim Il Sung when we were young, and also the love shown by him to us every day.

The happy life we enjoy today is unthinkable apart from his great efforts.

My son was born in 1990 and his wife in 1991. They would not know about such favour if we don't tell it to them.

Moreover, we are living in the house in front of the cryptomeria planted and tended by Kim Il Sung.

I always tell my children not to forget the love shown by Kim Il Sung generation after generation but to live as a family of true patriots."

As Ri Sang Suk said, in Kyongru-dong there is a cryptomeria planted and tended by Kim Il Sung.

Kim Il Sung potted and cultivated a cryptomeria presented by a foreign figure during the Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s. After the war, he transplanted it into the garden of his residence and worked heart and soul to acclimatize it to the climatic and soil conditions of Korea.

This is how the cryptomeria could be spread to the whole country.

People in Kyongru-dong cultivate the cryptomeria with sincerity almost every day and tell the story about it to their children.

Teacher Kye Un Suk at a senior middle school said that as her father-in-law, an engine driver, was provided with a flat in Kyongru-dong, she could see the cryptomeria tended by Kim Il Sung, and continued:

"Whenever I see the cryptomeria tended by the great leader Kim Il Sung every day, I look back with deep emotion upon his devotion for the people.

I am an educator and will get the rising generations to remember and tell his benevolence forever."

The cryptomeria in Kyongru-dong is still standing, telling forever the life of Kim Il Sung devoted to the happiness of the Korean people.