It was in June last that the boy was admitted to the hospital with three degree burns on 22 percent of his body.

Medical workers of the hospital channeled all their efforts into treating him. A few days later he recovered his sense and overcame septic pyemia. Then skin grafting started. Employees of the hospital, inhabitants, officials of the mine and many other people vied with each other to donate their skin.

Upon hearing the news, service personnel of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces rushed to the hospital and donated their skin to save the boy. Doctors declined the offer of skin by them. But their stubborn insistence made doctors graft more than 150 pieces of skin to the baby. Soldiers' help was not confined to this. They also sent a cradle and made every sincere effort to enrich the baby's nutrition. Their families, too, contributed to the skin-grafting.

The more than 80 days of treatment of the baby was a period which witnessed the true picture of society in the DPRK which achieved the great unity of the army and the people.