The Central Cadres Training School of the Workers’ Party of Korea, a prestigious political school of the WPK and the highest institution of training Party cadres, is proudly marking its 80th founding anniversary in its glorious history.

The Central Cadres Training School has successfully carried out its strategic and historic duty, entrusted by the times and the revolution, in the van of accomplishing the sacred cause of eternally carrying forward the lifeline of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Party and its ever-victorious leadership and firmly guaranteeing the bright prospect of the Juche cause. Such contribution of the school serves as a solid cornerstone supporting the immortal dignity and honour of the WPK which is writing the longest history as a socialist ruling party.

The respected Comrade 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, paid a congratulatory visit to the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK marking its 80th founding anniversary on June 1.

The revolutionary university, which stands imposingly in the historic Kumsusan area as a symbol of the absolute prestige of the WPK and the invincibility of our cause, was filled with great excitement and joy of all its teaching staff and students who were having the greatest honour and happiness of having Comrade Kim Jong Un on its campus on the significant 80th founding anniversary.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived, all the participants broke into thunderous cheers of “Hurrah!”

They paid the highest tribute and gratitude to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the most faithful successor to the sacred cause of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the peerlessly great political master and the great teacher, who visited the school with ardent love, trust and warm blessing.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was courteously greeted by Ri Yong Sik, principal of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK, and Paek Hyong Chol, secretary of its primary committee of the WPK.

He was presented with bouquets of fragrant flowers by educational workers of the school.

He warmly congratulated all the teaching staff and students of the school on its significant 80th founding anniversary as they are performing brilliant feats with honour by making a tangible contribution to organizational and ideological strengthening of the Party and its leadership activities through educational practice and academic activities and with good performance at a time when the new era of Party building and the great period of national rejuvenation are being ushered in.

Present at the celebrations were secretaries and other officials of the Central Committee of the WPK, the teaching staff and students of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK and educational workers and students of the provincial Party schools across the country.

Present there at invitation were the veteran educators who made distinguished contributions to training Party cadres.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK.

Appreciating the outstanding position, matchless authority and high fame of the Central Cadres Training School, he said: In its 80-year history since June 1, 1946, when its founding was declared with the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung as the first principal and only 80 persons as students, the Central Cadres Training School has made a steady growth into a reliable cadres training base of the WPK both in name and reality. Today, too, it is adding lustre to its sacred original name without marring it in the slightest, the appellation for a political educational institution faithfully serving the Juche-oriented Party building cause and for a strategic fortress guaranteeing the existence and development of the Party.

Building a prosperous and powerful state is inconceivable separated from the core and leading role of Party cadres and training Party cadres should be put above all other affairs. The aim of the founding of this school remains an absolute truth even today, 80 years later. Our socialist construction is going through an era of transformation, which no one has ever witnessed and the struggle to realize the people’s ideals is expanding to an unprecedented scale, he said, referring to the Party’s strategic intention and necessity of giving more importance to the training of Party cadres.

If the Party is to be strong and the country is to develop, the “pedigree” institution for training hard-core cadres of the Party should be firm, and talents of the talents of our country must be produced by the institution, he continued, setting forth in detail the important principles and educational and practical directions to be adhered to by the Party political school in remaining faithful to its character, original features and mission as a Party’s political school despite the passage of time and the uninterrupted change of generations, and in training the reserves of the Party into elite elements possessed of Juche-oriented outlook on revolution, life and morality.

Ardently calling for opening up more courageously the broad avenue for Party building in the new era by linking the glorious moment of today, which marks another significant starting point in the development of the WPK and the revolution, to the future, he wished the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK only glory in the future.

All the participants, receiving with boundless excitement the profound guidelines guaranteeing the bright future of strengthening the whole Party in the new era, broke into enthusiastic cheers amid thunderous applause, expressing their determination to remain unfailingly faithful to the cause of Juche-oriented Party building as the true personifiers of the red-flag spirit firmly armed with the revolutionary idea of the Party Central Committee and the standard-bearers of the revolution steadfastly carrying forward the glory of the Party and guaranteeing its future.

Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the room dedicated to the history of the school.

Our cause of Party building has never experienced a moment of stagnation or frustration even though it traversed such arduous years of the revolution, thanks to the Party cadres training bases which have invariably served as sustenance for the Juche-oriented cause of Party building from the very day of the Party founding, he said, adding that it is the great pride and strength of the WPK to have such a prestigious educational base and strong theoretical base as the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK which is reliably supporting the struggle of the socialist ruling Party while maintaining the high sense of responsibility for the revolutionary cause, sincere research attitude and substantial teaching strategy.

He stressed that even though the Party’s revolutionary idea is great and its exploits enormous, it is impossible to expect the Party’s future development and steady succession to the revolutionary cause if the Party fails to successfully train its successors, and that the Central Cadres Training School should help ceaselessly enhance the leadership and fighting efficiency for the permanent existence and uninterrupted victorious development of the Party and consolidate its eternal prosperity in conformity with the important mission given by the times and the revolution.

It is the guarantee for invincibility of the revolutionary Party and the law of its rule to highly value its sacred first page and steadfastly carry it forward as the history becomes longer and exploits are accumulated, he said, stressing that the school should steadily glorify its noble position and duty as the main base and think-tank of the Party’s ideo-theoretical building in the work of intensifying the education and struggle to maintain and give full play to its original ideals and determination and qualitatively training the hard-core elements possessed of its inherent revolutionary trait as their mental qualities.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had a photo taken with the teaching staff of the Central Cadres Training School, who are displaying their high qualifications as educators, Party conscience and revolutionary enthusiasm on the sacred school platform related to the eternal future of the Party, on the occasion of the significant founding anniversary of the school.

The role of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK just means the strengthening and development of the WPK and the eternal future of the Party building depends on every step of this political school, he said, expressing expectation and belief that the school will further strive to strengthen the Party and brilliantly accomplish its sacred fighting programme, always sharing the intention, will and practice with the Party Central Committee.

Then, he also had a photo taken with the educational workers of the provincial Party schools who were invited to the celebrations of the 80th founding anniversary of the Central Cadres Training School, which will be eternally recorded in the history of Party building.

All the participants hardened their will to more creditably and steadfastly carry out the basic duty of the glorious political school with their great efforts and successes in the educational work, bearing deeper in mind the honour of being career revolutionaries who are arming and training the reserves of the Party.

The women’s soccer teams, who won gold medals in international games to glorify the honour of the motherland, had a demonstration match to commemorate the 80th founding anniversary of the school.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un watched the match together with the participants in the celebrations.

Prior to the match, he met and warmly congratulated the players and coaches of the National Soccer Team, the winner of the 2026 AFC U-17 Women’s Asian Cup, and the Naegohyang Team who won the trophy in the 2025-2026 AFC Women’s Champions League.

He had photo sessions with the trustworthy women players, proud daughters of the motherland, hoping that they will support the country by winning more gold medals and trophies—more brilliant successes—associated with their patriotism.

The conspicuous match started amid high spirit and excitement of the women players honoured with great love and trust of the fatherly Marshal.

The match, in which the players displayed highly competitive spirit, impressively decorated the end of the celebrations.

At the end of the match, the participants raised roaring cheers of “Hurrah!” as an eruption of their joy and excitement of spending together with the benevolent father dream-like pleasant and happy time that they would recollect in their lifetime.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the enthusiastically cheering participants, expressing his hope that the pedigree establishments for training the backbone of the WPK, which have upheld its glorious history as a ruling party, would achieve more remarkable successes in education and gain higher academic authority.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s guidance at the supreme political school of the DPRK will be registered in the history of Party building in the new era as a sacred footprint he made to ensure forever the eternal continuity and invincibility of the Juche revolution and usher in a brighter and more hopeful era of prosperity for the Party and the country by giving definite precedence to the work for the future of the Party over all other affairs.