Hers was a brilliant life devoted to the country, nation and revolution.

In the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle President Kim Il Sung, worrying about the ill health of his mother Kang Pan Sok, paid a visit to her with some 15 kilograms of foxtail millet.

But she told him in a serious 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 love she showed him was not simply motherly love. It was true revolutionary affection with which she regarded him as the son of the nation rather than her own son and awakened him to the need to give priority to loyalty to the country over filial piety towards his parents.

Still popular in Korea is the song "Great Love of the Mother" created many years ago on the basis of the story.

She devotedly helped revolutionaries in their anti-Japanese struggle. When they dropped in her house she used to sincerely serve them with meal, though she lacked food, patch up their clothes and dry their wet footwear all night. She also prepared expenses and provisions needed for their journey.

That is why comrades-in-arms of the President called her "our mother" and her small thatch-covered house "our home".

She dedicated herself to the patriotic cause to the last moment of her life.