My Life and Faith (Ri In Mo)

My Life and Faith
My Life and Faith
Author	Ri In Mo
Publisher	Foreign Languages Publishing House
First published	1997; Pyongyang
Type	Book
Source	https://archive.org/details/my-life-and-faith-eng
PDF	https://archive.org/download/my-life-and-faith-eng/My%20Life%20and%20Faith_text.pdf

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

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