Anecdotes

The People Are Masters

One day Chairman Kim Jong Il visited a dental hospital in a province.

Looking round the hospital, he said with great pleasure that still there was not such a large and excellent hospital like this even in Pyongyang and that it was a very good thing such a modern hospital was built in the area where there were many workers.

An official of the province, who was guiding him, explained to him about the latest multi-purpose dentist’s chairs. He said that the facilities were used only for a king or a president in other countries and that foreign experts wondered why the DPRK was buying them for a local hospital.

Then, looking round the officials, Kim Jong Il said that there was no need to worry and that in the country the people are the masters, so it was the working people who should use such equipment.