In January 1959, on his visit to the former Soviet Union, Comrade Kim Il Sung had a meal together with staff members of the DPRK embassy in Moscow.

   A girl typist was also present there.

   At the mealtime he kindly asked her what kinds of food she has usually taken in Moscow and whether she ate such Korean foods as buckwheat noodles, bean paste, soy sauce and red-pepper bean paste.

   She answered frankly that she did not help herself to the foods as in the motherland.

   Then, he said that only when the Koreans eat bean paste, could they be invigorated and healthy.

   From olden times, the Koreans have used soy and bean paste in their dietary life, so it has been widely known as a health food of high nutritive value.

   Noting that bean paste and red-pepper bean paste are of high nutritive value and very good for health, he ensured that all foods the delegation had brought about from the motherland were handed over to the embassy.

   Looking at the foods full of national flavour, the officials and staff members of the embassy were firmly resolved to cherish in their mind his ennobling intention and the soul of the Korean nation, though they were in a foreign land, and make devoted efforts for the country.