She rushed at a breath to the children entering the front gate and embraced them, saying in an emotion-charged tone: Why are you coming now from where and do you know how much effort General Kim Il Sung has made to find out your whereabouts for nearly three years following the liberation?

She also asked them in detail how many days were required to come to the motherland, by what they came, whether there were children who felt train-and car-sickness and how many children remained there.

Reading carefully their faces as if she tried to find features of her beloved fallen comrades-in-arms and gave prepared foodstuffs to every child.

Seeing a child who was wearing trousers worn out at the knees, she said that she would patch up the torn trousers. A woman official suggested that she would do it.

Kim Jong Suk said to the following effect: As the comrades-in-arms placed their children under the care of the General, when they were dying on the battlefield, I am their mother now and I must patch it up.

Her earnest words moved both the bereaved children and the woman official to tears.

There are so many stories about the love shown by Kim Jong Suk who regarded it as her noble moral obligation to bring up the children of the fallen comrades-in-arms in her care.