There are many stories that our people recall with deep emotion on the Day of the Shining Star every year.

One of them is about the day in Juche 88 (1999).

Early on that day the Chairman left for his field inspection of units of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

He visited a women's sub-unit in a remote snowy mountain where he showed fatherly loving care, acknowledging the efforts of soldiers standing guard over the sky of the country.

That afternoon he guided a skiing training of soldiers and their families in the outdoor training ground of other unit of the KPA.

After coming back to his lodgings when it got dark, he instructed an official to send sets of good skis to the soldier families as souvenirs.

After sending a truck loaded with skis, he had dinner with some potato food with officials and discussed the ways of effecting revolution in potato farming and improving the diet of the people.

Even the evening hours of his birthday were dedicated to the discussion of potato farming and diet of the people.

His whole life was dedicated to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people and he even spent his birthdays holding consultative meetings of leading officials of the WPK Central Committee where he made public an important work on improving the standard of people's living, and inspecting KPA units and guiding the work of several economic sectors.