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The respected and beloved leader Comrade Kim Il Sung talks with Li Gye San and other deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly
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Always Among the People
Farm Labourer’s Daughter Grows As Heroine
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Women in Korea had been subjected to double and treble oppression during the dark period of Japanese Imperialist rule. They worked all lives as farm labourers or kitchen-maids. They could not so much as write their own names.
After liberation these farm servants and their daughters were taken to the heart of the great leader who recovered their lost country and grown up as heroines and revolutionaries. Of course their illiteracy was shaken off.
Here is a story of Li Gye San, Honorary Chairman of the Pokgye Cooperative Farm Management Board in Pyongyang County, Kangwon Province.
One day in August 1947, a farm woman came to Pyongyang, carrying two sacks of well-ripe wheat and one sack of potato packed up neatly.
She had experienced a tearful life of farm labourer in Pyongyang County, Kangwon Province, under Japanese Imperialist occupation.
After she had lost her husband forced into the “Patriotic Labour Corps” Li had lived with her two children in total poverty. Then liberation came, the woman was given land thanks to
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Walter F. Corbiere, III
The respected and beloved leader Comrade Kim Il Sung talks with Li Gye San and other deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly
Text of title:
Always Among the People
Farm Labourer’s Daughter Grows As Heroine
Text of body:
Women in Korea had been subjected to double and treble oppression during the dark period of Japanese Imperialist rule. They worked all lives as farm labourers or kitchen-maids. They could not so much as write their own names.
After liberation these farm servants and their daughters were taken to the heart of the great leader who recovered their lost country and grown up as heroines and revolutionaries. Of course their illiteracy was shaken off.
Here is a story of Li Gye San, Honorary Chairman of the Pokgye Cooperative Farm Management Board in Pyongyang County, Kangwon Province.
One day in August 1947, a farm woman came to Pyongyang, carrying two sacks of well-ripe wheat and one sack of potato packed up neatly.
She had experienced a tearful life of farm labourer in Pyongyang County, Kangwon Province, under Japanese Imperialist occupation.
After she had lost her husband forced into the “Patriotic Labour Corps” Li had lived with her two children in total poverty. Then liberation came, the woman was given land thanks to
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Page numbered 8
Walter F. Corbiere, III
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