Mt Osong is counted on fingers as a high and rugged mountain among the heights in the frontline of the DPRK. To reach its top along the road on steep slopes and cliffs, visitors should turn 152 bends, each one of which is so sharp that one misstep may lead them to a fall over a precipice.
Chairman Kim Jong Il climbed Mt Osong again and again to meet his soldiers in the frontline during the Arduous March and forced march in the 1990s when the imperialist allied forces made desperate attempts to stamp out socialist Korea in all directions.
When he climbed Mt Osong one day in August 1998, the path was too rough because of the continued rain in the wet season. But he pressed on with his field guidance tour of the KPA units.
He got on his field car without hesitation, saying that he could not give up climbing the height where the soldiers were and the supreme commander should cross such rugged passes at the front in such bad weather as of that day to know well about his soldiers’ life.
When the field car nearly arrived at the peak of Mt Osong, it began to slip towards the steep cliff. At that critical moment, the Chairman got off the car and pushed the slipping car with his shoulder. Whenever the car exerted its strength, muddy water was splashed all over his clothes. In this way, he climbed the path along the rugged, dangerous cliff to reach the peak of Mt Osong, showed warm love for and affection to the soldiers and encouraged them.
Not only Mt Osong, but also Chol Pass he crossed in the face of strong snowstorm to meet the soldiers, Cho Island to which he made his way through the wild sea on board a boat and other frontline army posts for national defence are all closely associated with the Chairman’s continued long journey of devotion
Because it was the way to defend the destiny of the country and nation and socialism.
Mt Osong is called the mountain of Songun until today, telling forever all the stories in the history of the Songun revolutionary leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il.
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