One day morning in April 1937, President Kim Il Sung issued an order for an emergency call to the units of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army in military and political studies at Dongjiang Secret Camp and told the soldiers in line to plough idle fields and plant seeds.
At that moment, the soldiers standing up in strain began to buzz looking at each other, because they didn’t know why they had to plant seeds just when they nearly finished studying and were going to leave the secret camp.
The President said to them that they should plant seeds even though they would leave the secret camp tomorrow. And then, he made them aware that although they couldn’t benefit, other units or mail carriers would get benefit and even if they didn’t come back, it would be good if neighboring people could supplement their deficient food.
That day, chief of the village near to the secret camp was given back the farm tools he had lent to the guerrilla units and also asked a surprising request from them.
It read as follows:
Might we ask you, the chief, to dispose of vegetables and crops in the fields and ration them to the poor families of the village even though we didn’t come back here later?
