“I never imagined that my crippled daughter could dance.”
Kim Ryo Un, at Tangsang Primary School in Mangyongdae District, was diagnosed to be attacked by cerebral palsy soon after her birth, and had since been unable to stand on her feet until the age of 7 and looked out of the window at the children of the same age going to school. But now she walks freely on her feet, and even dances.
It is attributable to the boundless and devoted effort of An On Jong, a dance trainer at Tangsang Primary School in Mangyongdae District, who devoted pure conscience as an educator and motherly sincerity to the crippled girl.
When her mother first came to An On Jong with her, she doubted whether she could take responsibility for her because she was dumfounded by her physical condition.
But she lost in deep thought when the girl’s mother said in tears that she had been heartbroken to see her daughter unable to stand on her feet and had come to her with the hope that she might see a miracle, impossible as it might be, if the girl had rhythmic training and the girl on her back pleadingly stared at her.
(Ryo Un is one of all children loved and taken care of so much by our Marshal. If I remain indifferent to her, what is an educator for?”
Self-remorseful for being hesitant even for a moment, An On Jong admitted her into the dance circle and started in real earnest to give rhythmic training and medical treatment.
Whenever she was disheartened as her active treatment and teaching methods showed no sign of improvement in her physical condition, the leading officials of the school encouraged her to perform her due duty and moral obligation to bring all flower buds into full bloom in the garden of socialism cultivated by Marshal
Thanks to her sincere devotion and efforts, Ryo Un began to feel pain in her toes in 67 days from the start of intensive treatment and training, and since then, massage and dance training had got more active.
Her reflection rate, movement execution ability and other overall physical conditions got remarkably better, and at last on the 156th day she took the first step.
The cloud over her face cleared away and she took more active part in dance training than other children, and eventually, could perform on the stage.
As it is a social trend of our country that the people regard others’pain as their own and devote their sincerity to others, we can hear one beautiful story after another from all parts of the country, and in this laudable climate Ryo Un fully displayed her talent in the dance item of the performance shown by the pupils of Tangsang Primary School to the residents of Pyongyang Sanatorium for War Veterans in celebration of October 10, the founding anniversary of our Party, last year.
When the dance item was over, her mother rushed up to the stage and announced that the cute girl who had just shown wonderful dance movements was her daughter, and that she, once crippled, now became a dancer. She burst out her emotion:
“I never imagined that my daughter, once no better than totally paralyzed, can even dance in the public. It is none other than An On Jong who enabled my daughter to stand up on her feet and take her first step and has now trained her into a dancer. I bow down deep to our motherly Party which has brought up such a wonderful teacher. Thanks a thousand times.”
