One day in October 1951, exhibition of light industry was opened which no one had ever thought of under the adverse conditions of war.
President Kim Il Sung visited the exhibition hall.
Looking at the knitted goods on display, the President underscored that they should produce more knitted goods tapping all reserves and potentialities so that war sufferers would not feel a lack of clothes in winter to come.
Officials were deeply moved to feel his meticulous loving care of people advancing the season.
When the President finished seeing daily necessities and went where cosmetics were on display, an official accused a subordinate for exhibiting even cosmetics in the wartime.
Other officials nodded, too, as if agreeing to his opinion, but the President said it wasn’t right and told them that they should know our people are actually civilized even though in shabby clothes and living in half-underground houses and our people have a strong revolutionary spirit and are fond of bright and clean things.
That day the President walked round all places in the hall where hundreds of varieties of commercial goods were exhibited and gave valuable teachings to the officials that they should further develop light industry and regional-industry to provide sufficient daily necessities to the people in wartime.
