Place in Which President Kim Il Sung Was Elected as Deputy to Supreme People's Assembly

Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- Samdung-ri, Kangdong County, Pyongyang Municipality was known as a place of electing President Kim Il Sung as a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly at the first election after liberation.

It has been 80 years since it.

On October 16, 1946, President Kim Il Sung was nominated as a candidate for a member of the South Phyongan Provincial People’s Committee at the constituency in the then Samdung-myon, Kangdong County, South Phyongan Province, an ordinary rural village.

When the President arrived at the playground of a school, the venue of a welcoming ceremony, the people raised the stormy cheers of "Hurrah!"

He acknowledged the enthusiastic cheers of the people and stopped before the cotton cloth on his way.

Saying that the cotton cloth must be used for the people, he called for rolling it back.

Expressing thanks to the people for electing him as a candidate, he made a speech in which he would devote himself to the nation-building and the struggle for the freedom and happiness of the people.

The people in Samdung-myon were excited with the pride of electing President Kim Il Sung, the peerless patriot, as a representative of the people and taking part in the election, fully enjoying the joy of liberation and the benefits of the democratic reforms.

Still now, the people of Samdung-ri are talking about the noble popular traits of President Kim Il Sung. -0-