Ethiopia, April 13 -- President Kim Il Sung (April 15, 1912-July 8, 1994) said in his lifetime: Love for the younger generation is the most devoted and dynamic kind of human love; it is the purest and most beautiful of all paeans dedicated to humanity.

He often said that if someone asked him when he would feel the happiest, he would answer that it was when he was among children called the flower buds.

He devoted his whole life to the children with an ennobling outlook on the rising generations.

Here are some touching stories.

During the anti-Japanese armed struggle in the 1930s, he ensured that his only blanket was given to the sick members of the anti-Japanese Children's Corps, saying that he could never feel at ease even if he had b...