A low thatched house where the President was born is preserved at Mangyongdae of the DPRK in its original state, the article said, and went on:

After hearing the news that his father was arrested by the Japanese imperialist police again, Kim Il Sung left Mangyongdae at the age of 13 with a firm pledge to retake the country.

Since then he had waged a hard-fought anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and liberated the country. He returned to his birthplace 20 years later.

The Korean people have preserved the old home at Mangyongdae as a sacred land of revolution which draws an endless crowd of visitors as the President devoted all his life to the sovereignty and prosperity of the country and its people's well-being.

The old home is plain and simple but it has become a place dear to all visitors, prominent politicians, officials and people of the world, expressing reverence for the President.