One day in December 1951 President Kim Il Sung summoned an official to the office room of the supreme command.

He told the official that the people in Kangwon Province suffered from the shortage of salt and he felt very sorry for the report. Even though the situation was very difficult, why we could not supply salt to the people, he said.

Now we suffer from the war, but there is salt enough to supply for the people, we should be always concerned about the stability of the people’s living even in the wartime, it is necessary to carry the amount of salt needed for the people even with the mobilization of gun carriages if there is a shortage of trucks, he said. He gave detailed instructions concerning the transport of salt including the supply of oil.

Hence, the transportation means necessary for the front in harsh wartime, ran to the rear with the salt for the people.