calendar>>June 20. 2020 Juche 109
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Birthday Spread to Centenarian
Sunchon, June 20 (KCNA) -- Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to Jang Tuk Gum who lives at Sunchon-dong of Sunchon City in South Phyongan Province on her 100th birthday.

She, who was born into a fire-field peasant's family during the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule over Korea, could lead a genuine life only after the liberation.

She stood in the van of the campaign against illiteracy, the patriotic movement of donating grains, movement for improved grain production in time of war and the campaign for carrying out the Party's policy on agricultural cooperativization.

She became a woman official and lived a life of repayment. After becoming a pensioner, she has volunteered to do patriotic work conducive to the economic life of the country.

She likes fruit and soy-based foods and is spending her remaining years while doing housework and cultivating kitchen garden in good health.

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