We are the happiest in the world.
“Mum, can I never walk? I want to play as much as I want, just like my brother.”
This is a simple dream of the 12-year-old girl in Sosamjong-ri, Ryokpho District, who has been in bed without walking ability because the unexpected accident at the age of 8.
For the last 4 years she was taken to all possible hospitals on her mother’s back and tried all possible treatment but all in vain: it was recognized as an incurable disease whose cause could not be found even by the modern medicine.
Nevertheless, during the top-level anti-epidemic campaign in response to the grave situation caused by the influx into our country of the the malignant virus sweeping over the whole world, this common girl was able to walk on the ground thanks to the fervent devotion of the frontline military medical workers who stood at the forefront of the life-or-death battle to safeguard the security of the capital, and the lives and health of the people, cherishing deep in their buring hearts the combat order issued by General Secretary
In the daytime, they were busy with supply of medicine, medical examination and successive treatment of patients, and at nights they waged unknown battle to cure the girl’s leg.
Nobody thought that she would never be able to stand up on her feet, but when she took the first step after a long period of time, when she walked herself to the drugstore, when she shouted to the top of her voice “Fatherly Marshal, now I can walk myself”, not only her parents but all the villagers wept in deep emotion.
She lived without songs, but now the song “We are the happiest in the world” comes out of her mouth before she knows.
Im Chong Ye, who could not walk for 4 years, now walks on the ground to her heart’s content and fully develops her talent at school under the warm care of General Secretary