President Kim Il Sung set up Children's Corps schools in guerrilla zones in the years of the sanguinary anti-Japanese war, saying that the rising generation is the flower of the class, nation and humankind and it is a sacred duty of the revolutionaries to bring them up well.

Although he put on unlined clothes in winter, he took measures to provide members of the Children's Corps with padded winter clothes and comfortable beds and to make new clothes for the members of the Children's Corps in Maanshan with 20 yuan given to him by his mother as an inheritance. Boundless was such love shown by the President for the younger generation.

He placed the matter of children's pencil on the agenda of the First Session of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea after the liberation of the country. When he saw a barefoot boy on the way of field guidance, he called at his house and bought shoes for him. He donated his saved living expenses to the construction of a school in Hyangsan County.

In accordance with his outlook on the rising generation, the state built schools for bereaved children of patriotic martyrs and orphanages across the country and the schools did not suspend lessons during the Fatherland Liberation War. In the postwar rehabilitation and construction, too, the priority was given to the construction of schools, students and children's palaces, students and children's halls and children's camps.

Saying that he was very happy when he was among children, the President watched schoolchildren's New Year performances for scores of years. He acquainted himself with the supply of the new school uniforms to the students at the historical consultation meeting of officials in the economic sectors in July Juche 83 (1994), the last days of his life, and expressed great satisfaction. Indeed, he was the true father of the younger generation.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il who is identical to the President, similar legends of love for the rising generation are being created without let-up in the DPRK.

While finding himself on the way of frontline inspection in the "Arduous March" and the forced march, he let camping flags fly on the poles of the children's camps and saw to it that the facilities of the bean-milk factories were replaced with modern ones and bean-milk-carrying vans were sent for the children.

He took a measure to send specimens of animals and plants prepared by servicepersons of the Korean People’s Army to educational sectors, inspected a class at work at the Mubong Secondary School in Samjiyon County and sent educational apparatuses to the Sojung Secondary School in Rakwon County some time ago.

Greeting the 63rd anniversary of the foundation of the Korean Children's Union (June 6, 1946) the KCU members are making up their minds to carry forward the lineage of the Juche-oriented revolution.