Hers was a brilliant life of a great revolutionary who devoted herself to the country, nation and the victory of revolution before thinking of a family.

She made no scruple to push President Kim Il Sung to the expedition to southern Manchuria in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. This story fully shows how ardently she loved the country and the revolution.

Upon hearing the news that his mother's illness became critical when he was making preparations for the expedition, the President went to Tuqidian where his mother was with a large mal (about 15 kilograms) of foxtail millet.

That day when she met her dear son, she didn't tell him about her health and housework but led the conversation only to political topics.

The next day he climbed up the mountain with his younger brother to collect firewood and worried himself about his mother with filial piety.

That evening she said to the President in a grave tone:

"I am grateful to you for your great filial devotion, but I am not of the type to be comforted by that. …You have a greater cause to attend to. Don't you think you should carry out your father's will? …Don't worry about me, but hurry along your own way."

The next morning she said that a man must have money in his pocket to use in case of emergency and gave 20 yuan to the President which she had earned and saved penny by penny by working her fingers to the bone doing washing and sewing for pay.

She renounced her right to call on her sons to practice their filial duties only for the ruined country and nation even when her illness was serious and pushed the President to the revolutionary way. He was deeply moved by this.

The President wrote in his reminiscences "With the Century" as follows recollecting his mother: "The love she showed me was not simply motherly love. It was true revolutionary affection with which she regarded me as the son of the nation rather than her own son and awakened me to the need to give priority to loyalty to the country over filial piety towards my parents."