A revolution has taken place in education in the DPRK.

The law on enforcing the universal 12-year compulsory education was adopted at the Sixth Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly in September 2012 and the work to implement it at a high level goes on under the great care of the state.

At that time when the country experienced economic difficulties, it was not an easy job to enforce a new education system by extending it for one year.

However, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important decision with a plan to raise the overall education of the country to such a high level as to entrust children, the future of the country, to it without anxiety as soon as possible.

The introduction of the universal 12-year compulsory education was a historic event for great change in education, including perfection of the education system, upgrading of teaching contents and methods and fundamental improvement of educational conditions and environment.

For the successful enforcement of the universal 12-year compulsory education, he authored “Let Us Make Ours a Country of Education and a Talent Power by Bringing about a Radical Improvement in Education in the New Century”, “Teachers Should Fulfil Their Duty as Career Revolutionaries in Implementing the Party’s Policy on Bringing about a Radical Turn in Education” and other works to provide important guidelines for successfully bringing about a radical improvement in education.

In addition, he came up with a slogan “Let us make a leap forward by dint of science and guarantee the future by dint of education!” at the Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea as he set the development of education along with science as an undertaking for the everlasting prosperity of the country to maintain the lifeline of the revolution and illuminated the orientation and ways to put the Party’s plan into reality.

He continued his inspection tour of the education sector out of a desire to train the rising generations to be able talents who receive excellent education under the good system and conditions.

Looking round the upgraded Pyongyang Teachers Training College in January 2018, he said that the college should, bearing in mind the Party’s intention, train teachers who would become roots and make a sacrifice of themselves for the education of the rising generations to substantially contribute to strengthening the ranks of teachers of kindergartens and primary schools.

On a visit to the Paeumui Chollikil (1 000-ri Journey for Learning) Schoolchildren’s Palace in May 2019, he said that the WPK should do everything it can possibly do for children at the highest level however difficult the situation is because how to raise the younger generations is a very important matter decisive of the future of the Korean revolution.

Thanks to his idea on the revolution in education in the new century and energetic leadership, educational institutions of the country as a whole took on new looks and achieved marked successes in education.

Teachers throughout the country made vigorous efforts to enhance their qualifications, building up their ranks. And a large number of technical senior middle schools were established across the country as part of the programme to further perfect the educational system as required by the developing reality.

In order to improve the quality of compulsory education, the planning of the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme was completed and the writing of textbooks was pushed ahead accordingly last year.

Amid the heightening zeal throughout society for supporting education to radically improve the educational conditions and environment, many schools and classrooms across the country have been built or renovated as model schools and multifunctional classrooms.

Officials and teachers in the field of education put in a great deal of energy and wisdom to make education an advantageous and ideal one that guarantees the bright future of the country.