Chin Li-lan describes how his mother reacted after she heard someone tell her that everything they owned in Pyongyang had been destroyed: "She didn't cry. It's just that all the fight went out of her, and she was melancholy until the day she died."
金立蘭形容母親在聽到別人轉述他們在平壤的家產都給搜奪毀壞後，「也沒哭，只是精神就不濟了，一直到去世，她總是很憂鬱。」