At the 11th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that education is the first state affair that should be given priority and that demands tremendous effort at any time and at any stage and the most important sector that has to make steady progress.
Saying that, now that the DPRK has set an aim of building a state which gives the most importance to education and is most advanced in education in the world, it should definitely take the direction of supplying school fittings, supplies and equipment and providing the educators and students with the best working and studying conditions on the full responsibility of the state, Kim Jong Un stressed the need to push forward the modernization of schools, which claims a lion’s share in strengthening the educational foundations, as a state undertaking, and set an ambitious goal to renovate all schools across the country within the next decade and push it forward persistently so as to carry it through to the end without fail.
