In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea education is regarded as the most important affair of the country.

This reality would be unthinkable apart from the energetic guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who always pays close attention to the development of education.

In 2019 alone, he devoted himself to the development of the country's education.

In March, he came to Kim Chaek University of Technology and voted for the president of the university, a candidate for deputy to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly. He gave instructions on the educational work and took measures to turn the university into a modern scientific and educational base.

In April, he visited Samjiyon Junior Middle School in Samjiyon, Ryanggang Province, which was near completion. While looking round the school, he said that it should be built well so that it could become a model in the sector of general education. He stressed the need to provide it with good facilities and equipment and school furniture so that it could fulfil its mission as a junior middle school.

While giving field guidance at Paeumui Chollikil Schoolchildren’s Palace in May, he stressed the need to turn the schoolchildren’s palaces into comprehensive extracurricular educational bases equipped with all educational conditions and environment on a high level.

In his classic work Teachers Should Fulfil Their Duty as Career Revolutionaries in Implementing the Party’s Policy of Bringing About a Radical Improvement in Education published in August that year, he said that education is the most important of state affairs and the lifeline of socialist construction. He continued that if science and technology are a locomotive propelling the economic development of the country and an important criterion for its national power, the mother of science and technology is education and that all the teachers should become strong roots and sustenance for the education of the rising generation and raise the fierce flames of a great educational revolution, upholding the slogan “Let us train students to be excellent revolutionary talents and guarantee the future of the country!”

Thanks to his leadership, educational methods and conditions fundamentally improved leading to a change in the educational work of the country.

At the 11th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held in December 2024, Kim Jong Un said that as the scope of creation and change expands, the WPK will always give priority to education, further raise the public interest in education and steadily increase state support and investment.

Ryu Kyong Won