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Noble International Obligation and Great Love of Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- With approach of the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il, the Korean people and the world's progressives are looking back with deep emotion on his noble traits whereby a great epic of international obligation and human love was created.

Kim Jong Il was the greatest man with highest sense of obligation and human love none of the great persons in the world could match.

He laid a wreath at the mausoleum of Lenin at Red Square in Moscow during his historic visit to Russia in August 2001. This fact, which drew deep attention of the international community, clearly showed the world what is the pure moral sense of obligation a revolutionary should have toward leader of the working class.

On the 60th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers' entry into the Korean front he visited the former CPV Command and laid wreaths at the grave of Mao Anying and the cemetery of fallen CPV fighters.

He had also taken meticulous care of the widow and children of the head of state of an African country for over 10 years and showed warm love for the family of Zhang Weihua, a Chinese anti-Japanese revolutionary martyr. He sent a wreath to the tomb to Zhang Weihua on the 70th anniversary of his death and would invite his bereaved family to the DPRK whenever opportunity presented itself.

Such love of his reached a large number of families of related persons including Zhou Baozhong, Feng Zhongyun, Shang Yue, Chen Lei, Hu Zhenyi and Chai Shiying, Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

On his foreign trip Kim Jong Il personally met with Ya. T. Nobichenko, an internationalist soldier, and his family and gave gifts to them. When Nobichenko died he saw to it that his personal message of condolence and wreath and consolatory money in the name of the DPRK government were sent.

Besides, many families of the world received his love, among them those of Nikolai Lashenko of the former Soviet Union, Guy Dupre of France, Checa of Peru, Giancarlo Elia Valori of Italy, Ch. Surenjav of Mongolia and Yoshiyuki Oe of Japan.

Foreigners, who once stayed in the DPRK, too, experienced his warm loving care.

Medical workers of the Pyongyang Friendship Hospital brought back to life more than hundreds of foreigners who had been in a badly critical condition. Among them were a staff member of the Palestinian embassy here and a staff member of the Egyptian embassy.

At the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital more than 7 000 foreign women got medical service and at least 500 of them gave easy births over the past 30 odd years.

Kim Jong Il personally named some of their babies, born with friendship at this hospital, "Jindallae", "Solmae", "Saeppyol" and "Masolgwang".

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