The Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government attach primary importance to the education of rising generations in achieving national prosperity and maintain the principle of giving precedence to it over all other work.
After Korea’s liberation in August 1945, strenuous efforts were directed to establishing a democratic educational system and preparations were made for the enforcement of a universal compulsory primary education system as a nationwide, all- people drive.
The government enforced universal compulsory primary education in 1956 while pushing the postwar reconstruction and the building of the foundations of socialism even under difficult situation. Two years later it also enforced universal compulsory secondary education to provide younger generations with a wider access to learning.
In 1967 when the task of socialist industrialization was be ing pushed on a full scale, the universal nine - year compulsory technical education combining general secondary education with basic technical education, and education with productive labour, was introduced to provide a springboard for rapidly boosting the overall technical level of society.
The DPRK government enforced the universal 11- year compulsory education for the first time in the world in 1972.
In the course of successfully enforcing the universal 11 - year compulsory education and fulfilling the tasks set forth in the Theses on Socialist Education, bases for training talents were set up and dynamic efforts were made to improve general secondary education with the bases as a model. As a result lots of talented reserves of scientists and technicians were produced to greatly contribute to the development of the country’s science and technology.
The successes are attributable to the idea of education of rising generations put forward by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and their energetic leadership.
In reflection of the unprecedentedly soaring demand for improved education in the new century of the Juche era and the actual demand arising from all- round construction of a powerful socialist country, the government promulgated the law on enforcing the universal 12- year compulsory education on September 25 2012.
Thanks to the enforcement of the universal 12- year compulsory education epitomizing the ennobling view on the country, younger generations and future of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, new ge nerations in the DPRK are growing to be talents possessing sound knowledge at the level of general secondary education, modern basic technical knowledge and creative ability.
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