The people in a village adjoining Jiktong Pass in Kumgang County of Kangwon Province waged a vigorous wartime food production campaign even under hail of the enemy's shells and sent foods to soldiers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) defending a height.

The story about three sisters-in-law of Kumgang who assisted the soldiers with all their sincerity during the war is still told by men and officers of the KPA.

A 60-year-old woman in Orang County donated a large amount of polished rice to the war front and devoted all her sincerity to the treatment of wounded soldiers. So, the soldiers used to call a stretcher-party led by her "mother’s stretcher-party".

In November Juche 41 (1952), peasants in Phyongwon County donated 50 bags of rice to the war front. Their patriotic deed became a torch activating the campaign for donating relief grains to the front among all peasants across the country.

Following their example, broad strata of people took part in the movement for donating funds for weaponry and even Children's Union members joined this movement.

Those planes, tanks and warships provided by the people on the home front were called "Rodongja" (worker), "Taehaksaeng" (student), "Sonyon" (child) and so on, and they made a tangible contribution to the victory in the war.

The people of South Phyongan Province sent more than 85 400 comfort articles and over 6 400 encouraging letters to the war front in one month alone. And the peasants of North Hamgyong Province sent huge amounts of daily necessities and fiber goods to the soldiers on the war front in the first half of 1951. Women in Kangwon and Jagang provinces, too, sent a large amount of clothing.

The DPRK people made a ceaseless journey of assisting the army even under the shower of fire in the whole period of the war as they keenly realized the truth that only when the army is strong, can they win the war and only when the country is defended, can the well-being and happiness of their families and posterity be guaranteed.

Seventy years have passed since the ceasefire, but the Korean people's assistance to the army still continues without letup.