calendar>>May 30. 2011 Juch 100
Patriotic Life Dedicated to Country   
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- May 31 marks the 135th birth anniversary of Ri Po Ik, grandmother of President Kim Il Sung.

She still remains in the memory of the Korean people for her life dedicated to the country and the people.

Born into a poor peasant's family in 1876, she encouraged her sons to take part in revolutionary activities against the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule.

When her son Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter, was put behind bars by the Japanese imperialists, she called up his courage.

After Kim Hyong Jik passed away in Juche 15 (1926), she went to Fusong in China to inspire the President to devote himself to achieving the independence of Korea.

She was never affected by any high-handed and unjust practice.

The Japanese imperialists took her to vast areas of Manchuria for nearly one year, pressing her to persuade the President to stop the anti-Japanese armed struggle. But she categorically rejected their demand, undaunted by their menace.

She always lived with the belief that Korea would surely be liberated from the Japanese colonial rule.

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