This year, too, more than 10 women were awarded the Communist Mother Honour Prize on the occasion of Mother's Day (November 16).

Kim Ok Son living in Taesong District of Pyongyang brought up five children as respectable persons.

She always motivated her children to work hard for the country.

When her eldest son Pak Song Il graduated from Kim Il Sung University decades ago, she told him to contribute to the prosperity and development of the country with his creations and when her second son Pak Song Min, who had liking for craftwork from his childhood, became the manager of the Narae Ceramic Factory, she encouraged him to exert himself.

True to her request and under her loving care, the eldest son became a PhD and the second son a Labour Hero.

The family members of Hong Pong Son, a worker of the Namdok Youth Coal Mine of the Pukchang Area Youth Coal-mining Complex, including a son, daughters, sons-in-law and a daughter-in-law, are well known as labour innovators at the coal mine.

Hong has devoted her whole life to society and the collective while implanting the family tradition of genuine patriotism in her children and thus all her children became members of patriotic coal miners’ family.

It is the theory of Pang Hyang Suk, a woman living in Kaechon City, that children should be brought up as sons and daughters of the country who think of their motherland first.

So she sent her three sons to the posts for national defence and her two daughters, who grew up under her tender care, to major construction sites.

Choe Sun Hui living in Jidang-ri of Ichon County is the wife of an army officer. As the mother of four children, she has endeavoured to be a model for them to copy.

Her children grew up receiving her principled and strict education. The eldest son unhesitatingly devoted his life to fulfilling his military duty, the second son became a Labour Hero at a grand socialist construction site and the only daughter volunteered to work at a place to which the Party calls.

Paek Myong Suk living in Sinhung County has kept as her family heirloom the two letters which her father-in-law had written in a burning trench to his parents, wife and children in his native home during the Fatherland Liberation War.

Having borne in her mind the requests of the preceding generation who had written that there can be the happiness of the family only when there is the country, she sent all her three sons to the posts for national defence and the eldest son became a DPRK Hero.

Han Yong Hui in Kim Chaek City, who devoted herself to education for more than 40 years, was a good educator both at school and at home.

“My mother always requested us to do our share for the country. Her request encouraged me to achieve today’s success,” said the second son Ma Chol Wan, winner of Kim Jong Il Prize, DPRK Hero and PhD.

Han was always short of time as a teacher, but she dedicated much effort to education for her children.

The sincerity she devoted to raising her children to be an educator, scientist, official and defender of the people sprang from her invariable love for the country.

On the day when she was awarded the Communist Mother Honour Prize, Han said, "I will live as a cornerstone supporting the country till the last moment of my life."