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Mangyongdae means it is a beautiful place which has 10 000 kinds of scenes.

In Mangyongdae, a low-hipped straw thatched house has now been conserved as it was showing the traces of poverty in bygone days filled with sufferings.

Just in this house President Kim Il Sung, the peerless patriot, was born as the eldest son of Mr. Kim Hyong Jik and Mrs. Kang Pan Sok on April 15, 1912 and spent his childhood.

What I have come to know through my visit to Mangyongdae is the fact that a misshapen jar and other farming tools show that his grandparents were tenant farmers and worked for daily wages from age to age and that the President cherished an ambition to make revolution while receiving patriotic education in his childhood from his parent and that his family and relatives were all the patriots who devoted their all for national independence and freedom and emancipation of people.

In a word, Mangyongdae was the home of revolution where the revolutionary family of President Kim Il Sung had fought against foreign aggressors and for national independence and freedom and emancipation of people. It was also the sacred place of revolution where the new origin of Korea began and the great Sun of Juche rose.

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It was extracted from the book “My father and DPRK” written in 2015 by Haifa Persy, chairman of Tunisia-DPRK Friendship Association.