I got reborn thanks to the loving care of the socialist system under which human being is the most valuable and everything serves the people, he said, adding: I express my profound gratitude to medical workers for devoting their all for my recovery and to the Workers' Party of Korea for establishing such excellent medical care system.

It was in the arduous period of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) that the DPRK government put into practice the decision on the enforcement of the free medical services. Later, it stipulated in the Socialist Constitution that any DPRK citizen has the right to free medical care.

Thanks to the regular health system set up from the capital city to localities, anyone in the DPRK can receive equal and free medical treatment, irrespective of his or her age, residential area and job.

In recent years alone, a telemedicine system was established throughout the country to give rapid assistance to patients.

Therefore, even foreigners say the universal, free medical care in the DPRK is the most advantageous one, the one and only model, in the world.