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Editor's Note
Preface
The Kaema Plateau
Phungsan, My Native Place
The Mt. Paektu Armed Unit Which Implanted the Anti-Japanese Fighting Spirit in My Young Mind
An Unforgettable Revolutionary Senior
The First Trial
Following the Sunlight
In Search of the Ranks of Struggle (1)
In Search of the Ranks of Struggle (2)
Gun Shots in Pochonbo
The Rays of the Rising Sun
Ju Pyong Pho
I Meet the Woman Political Worker Again
From Seoul to Tokyo
Phungsan Natives In Tokyo
The Whirlwind of Arrests Occasioned by the Seoul Communist Group Case
My Mother’s Heart
Parting and Meeting
The Last Year of Colonial Rule
Liberation and the Building of a New Homeland
The People’s Strength
The "September 20 Revolt" in Phungsan and My Comrades
Days of Joy
My Wedding
The "Golden Years"
Sorrow and Resentment
All for Victory in the War
The First Days of War
My Mother and My Wife
To the Front!
Comrade Kim Who Died an Untimely Death
At the Crossroads of Fate
Mount Jiri
Into the Mountains
Newspaper of South Kyongsang Provincial Party Committee
A Heroic Death
For What Are We Fighting?
Fighting While Studying the Alphabet: Song Jung Myong on Mount Jiri
Girl Soldiers of Mount Jiri
Understand Us Correctly
The Battles of Chuphung Pass and Agyang; Death of Jong Ok
Ri Hyon Sang's Unit
The Hearts of Comrades in South Korea
Records of Atrocities
Telling South Korean Comrades about North Korea
Nights on Mount Jiri
Death of Chairwoman of a Women’s Union Organization
Criticism and Comradeship
Unforgettable Flower Buds of Mount Jiri (1)
"Tell My Wife That I Died a Worthy Death."
The Last Battle
Unforgettable Flower Buds of Mount Jiri (2)
A Bear's Revenge
They Struggled for the Motherland to the Last
"Send Me to Koje Island"
Sentenced to Seven Years' Penal Servitude
Jailers from the Japanese Kwantung Army
Eating a Boiled Rat
Prison, the True Face of the Authorities
Weathering Raging Storms
"I Came Out Of the Prison Gate”
Back in Jail
"Why Are Communists' Wives All Virtuous Women?"
Mathematics on the Prison Floor
March 9 Outcry Struggle
The Forties in the Taejon Special Cell Block
The Present I Wanted to Give to My Wife
Only the Dead Leave the Chongju Protective Custody House
The Yongsan River Flows but...
The Song of the Yongsan River
Prelude to Severe Repression
Tearful Conversion Ceremony
Why Did Not I Convert?
A "Hotel Is Being Built in Chongju"
Death-Defying Hunger Strike
Thinking of Azaleas
Thinking of Azaleas
The First Interviewer
1590 Years of Imprisonment
A Survivor
Prison Gates Opened after 34 Years
Boiled Glutinous Rice Tasted for the First Time
The Last Duty of a War Correspondent of the Korean People's Army
Song of Golden-Bell
An Unsent Letter
Young Female Journalist Sin Jun Yong
"Observation and Security Act" Instead of "Public Security Act"
Close Friendships between Christians and a Communist
The Manuscript for the Notes of the Former War Correspondent of the People's Army Completed
Many Relations Formed by the "Notes"
My Motherland Is the General's Bosom
The Last Tidings of Comrade Jong Tae Chol, an Unconverted Long-Term Prisoner
Waiting
I Heard of My Wife's Tidings
Meeting with Mr. Kim Sang Won
Mr. Kim Sang Won's Family
Husband and Wife Truly Rare
Comrade Han Chang U Who Moved In with Ducks
I Was Put on the Operating Table
My Wife's Reply Letter, Which Travelled round the World
My Family in Pyongyang Seen through Video
Offensive and Defensive Battle for Repatriation of "Old Ri In Mo"
Kind People
Silla Hotel
Surrounded by Police
Young Smiles Suppressed by the Eviction Team
Days of Waiting
The Last Six Months
The Fifth Autumn
A Telephone Call
The Last Winter
Review of My Life
February and March
Unbelievable News
My Land, My Motherland
The 19th of March
My Land, My Motherland
"Leader ...! Oh, Father Leader!"
My House
"I Met Him!"
At the Zenith of Life
Poems Dedicated to the Dear Leader
Reflecting on My Fate
Thinking of Love
Ode to Faith and Will
We Are Blessed With the Leaders
We Have a General of Generals at the Helm
A Man of Noble Human Qualities Is with Us
My Resolution
The Sorrowful July