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Han Yong Sun, winner of the Communist Mother Honour Prize living in Musan County of North Hamgyong Province, was a well-known faithful farmer from her girlhood. After she got married and became a mother of four children, she always asked her children to be persons who devote themselves to the country.

Bearing her mother’s request in mind, her youngest daughter joined the army and worked hard for national defence to become a DPRK Hero, the eldest daughter who had followed the road of patriotism with her mother from her middle school days became the wife of an army officer and her son a scientist.

Nam Mi Ok, living in Hyesan City of Ryanggang Province, had a secret desire to see even one of her children become a hero. So she put more efforts into the education of children than anyone else.

Her son, who had grown up receiving the upright education of his mother, became a DPRK Hero at the army post for national defence. Since then, she has given her full support to the service personnel of the Korean People’s Army to live a proud life as the mother of a hero.

Copying the exemplary life of their mother, her two daughters got married to army officers and have voluntarily assisted the army for national defence.

Kim Sun Hyang, a worker of the Hanggu District road repair and management corps, is nearly 70 years old. Her family members are all road sweepers.

Seeing their mother who found a job in the field to which the country calls and has devoted herself to it unassumingly, all her children decided to follow in her footsteps and became road sweepers.

Ri Phil Song, a woman living in Rason City, also sent her two sons to the army for national defence and married her daughters to military officers.

Kim Un Hui, a worker of the Rungna People’s Recreation Ground Management Station, is a mother of five children.

She thought that it was the way of fulfilling a mother’s duty to give birth to many children and bring them up as pillars of the country.

As she brought up five children, she worked assiduously in her job to become a meritorious person of socialist patriotism.

Her three sons are now serving in the army for national defence and the eldest son who was discharged from the military service and the first daughter who graduated from middle school are working hard in their workplaces.

Jong Hye Suk, a woman living in Taean District of Nampho Municipality, is a mother of four children.

Her husband was a special-class honoured disabled soldier who lost the sight of two eyes.

So the country saw that her children studied at revolutionary schools.

She was so grateful to its loving care that she visited the socialist construction sites with her husband to offer aid materials they prepared with sincerity and conduct motivational activities, and sent three children to the army for national defence.

Kim Yon Hwa, a woman living in the township of Changdo County, is a mother of a large family who takes care of dozens of family members.

Though she had three children in the period of the Arduous March when the country experienced severe difficulties, Kim thought that it was a way of fulfilling her duty as a citizen to lessen the burden of the country even a bit and adopted over 20 parentless children in the county to look after them.

Regarding their mother who thought of the country first before herself and the family as a model they have to copy, all her children volunteered for the army for national defence and the major sectors of socialist construction.

Her strong personality and intense love for the country always give great encouragement to the children to perform feats.