Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the April 25 Hostel on August 16 to learn about the preparations for the education of pupils from flood-hit areas.

He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Pak Jong Chon and Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the C.C., WPK, and Ju Chang Il and Han Kwang Sang, department directors of the C.C., WPK.

According to the plan of the WPK Central Committee, some rooms in the April 25 Hostel have been turned into temporary classrooms for the said pupils, a mobile educational group comprising teachers of preschool educational institutions, primary and middle schools in Pyongyang was formed, and preparations for fresh-term teaching are being made in real earnest.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the April 25 Hostel and watched a demonstration lesson for a class of primary school pupils which was organized as part of preparations for new-term education of the pupils from flood-stricken areas.

He acquainted himself in detail with the provision of educational equipment and school fixtures and saw school things for the pupils.

Watching with a broad smile on his face the pupils from various regions who are engrossed in the class, he said that he was proud that the Party Central Committee had made a prompt and correct decision to take measures for provisional education of children and pupils from the flood-hit areas and enforced it. He also said that very important steps were taken despite the recovery from flood damage in order to give the field of education and the whole society once again a correct understanding of the importance of the education of the rising generation.

Looking round temporary classrooms for junior and senior middle school pupils in the hostel, he earnestly called for paying special attention to the work for making them attend to their studies with diligence and doing their best with all sincerity as all the pupils who are to study there are the children the people of the flood-hit areas left in the care of the Party and the government, wholeheartedly trusting them.

Then he talked to the accompanying officials about the development of the country's education.

The qualifications of teachers are the quality of education, the proper growth of students is achieved according to the quality of education and it is directly related to the advance speed and prospects of the country, he noted, adding that a radical improvement in education is, in essence, a radical improvement in teachers' qualities and a basic issue arising in giving full play to the advantages of the Korean-style educational policy. And he stressed the need to conduct a dynamic nationwide campaign to raise the qualifications of teachers of schools and kindergartens and thus to firmly guarantee the plan for the eternal prosperity of the country.

It is the steadfast goal and invariable will of the Party to turn the country into a developed country in education, a talented power prosperous and strong with education, he said, adding that everyone should always make painstaking and consistent efforts for the development of education and that the traits of attaching importance to and actively supporting education should be developed into national ones peculiar to the DPRK.

He said that education is an important work for giving steady continuity to the generations of the Korean revolution and promoting the development of the country, stressing again that the development of a country and the future of the revolution depends on how the younger generation is educated, so the Party and the government should not neglect the education of the rising generation even for a moment, no matter how difficult it may be. He said that the Party would discuss the important issues arising in further consolidating the material and technical foundations of the educational field and putting the overall educational work on a new high stage and take strong measures.

He met the schoolchildren from the flood-hit areas who were pleased with the new school uniforms and school things at a resting site of the hostel.

The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un helped pupils shoulder their schoolbags and said with his satisfaction that it is very nice to have all the schoolchildren provided with new school uniforms and their mothers who came up to Pyongyang together them would like. Then, he earnestly told the schoolchildren to study harder and train themselves to be joys of families and the country.

He stressed the need to make the children study well during the recovery from flood damage and organize well the diverse schedule to make them bear in mind the days of the stay in Pyongyang as an unforgettable and pleasant memory forever.

He said he was very pleased to see the cheerful children in new school uniforms, adding that the laughter of the children is the dynamic breath and vibrant spirit of the advancing country and a symbol of the mightiness of the Korean-style socialism. He wished them a happy future.

Thanks to the benevolent care of the great father who has the absolute faith that one should pick even a star from heaven for the younger generation, only happy laughter will always bloom on the faces of the children and the bell of learning to bring up the future of the prosperous country will resound far and wide on this land. -0-

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