Generally, factories seek profits and there are fierce competitions to that end.

But there are factories in the DPRK which do not seek profits.

They include factories that produce uniforms, bags and other school things.

The goods produced at these factories are supplied to students at the price next to nothing.

The DPRK has already enforced universal free education on April 1 1959 and provided free education and school supplies for the students. In recent ten years, modern school thing factories have been built in succession.

The construction of new factories specializing in the production of school uniforms and shoes was discussed and decided at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea like the dedicated school bag factory built in each province, and school uniforms and footwear factories are being built in each province.

Until the end of last year, school uniform factories were built in every province to supply smart and quality school uniforms to students across the country on a regular basis.

The construction of a school shoes factory was completed in Pyongyang this year, and that of the school shoes factory has been completed or stepped up at the final stage. And the work is going on to provide modern equipment to the factories producing daily necessities of students.

If these factories, which are not small in number or are more modern, do not seek profit, how do they operate factories and pay workers’ wages?

The answer is that the state fully covers the expenses.

Therefore, employees of such factories devote themselves to every product with motherly affection for their children.

Then, why does the DPRK build such factories in different parts of the country, which impose a burden on it and do not bring any profits to the state, and continue to make great efforts?

Herein lies the love of the Workers’ Party of Korea for rising generations.

The WPK, which has set it as a consistent policy and eternal national policy to ensure the supply of essential goods to students in a responsible manner, is unsparingly devoting even millions of money to the children.

This is evidenced by the 10th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said in the important policy speech at the meeting that the matter that we should bring about a particular improvement in the implementation of this year’s socialist policy is to decisively improve the quality of school uniforms, bags and shoes as the Party Central Committee had strongly reviewed and declared at the Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee. He also said that he, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, defined the happy laughter of our people and younger generation as a symbol of the socialist system, the mightiness of Korean-style socialism and the criterion of deciding the status of a great, prosperous and powerful country.

Thanks to his noble outlook on the rising generations and the future that we should pick up a star in the sky for the bright and happy laughter of younger generations, all the Korean students are growing up to be pillars of the country, being provided with clothing, footwear and school things by the state.