She devoted her all to the revolutionary cause, taking the country and the nation dearer than her family.

In the teeth of the harsh repression by the Japanese imperialists during their colonial rule, she helped members of her family in their revolutionary work and ran any risk for the sake of the country and the nation.

President Kim Il Sung was in danger in Fusong together with his comrades one day in the early period of his revolutionary activities.

Kang Pan Sok, mother of the President, was informed of her son's determination to fight his way through the enemy encirclement and went to him, breaking through a tight police cordon with Mausers hidden in some ribs of beef.

When she was laid up with illness in Xiaoshahe, the President visited her before leaving for south Manchuria with the newly-found Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army.

As the President was reluctant to depart from his mother, afraid of her sickness, she said:

How can a man who has turned out with a determination to win back his country cope with the great cause when he has such a weak heart and so many worries about his home. You must think of your lost country and its people.

The President said in his reminiscences that he renewed his resolve by recalling the words his mother had said to him as she pushed him off to south Manchuria, and the last image of his mother dressed in white seeing him off, before seeking recourse to an ideology or philosophical proposition.