Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Kim Il Sung University on Its 80th Founding Anniversary

Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Il Sung University, well known as the most authoritative and prestigious, highest seat of Juche-oriented science and education, is recording its glorious history of 80 years with pride.

Founded as the first university of the people on the untrodden path of nation building, it has demonstrated the high prestige and reputation as a "pedigree farm" of revolutionary talent education for training the backbone of our Party and state and as the highest school leading the country’s educational and sci-tech development, invariably remaining faithful to the historic mission given by the times and the revolution. Its distinguished feats serve as a solid cornerstone supporting the bright future of the Juche cause.

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 Kim Il Sung University on September 30 on the occasion of its 80th founding anniversary.

The time-honored area of Ryongnam Hill was overflowing with great emotion and joy of all the teaching staff and students honored to have at their university Marshal Kim Jong Un whom they had wanted to see so much, on the significant occasion of its 80th founding anniversary.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the university, stormy cheers of "Hurrah" burst out.

All the participants paid the highest tribute and deep thanks to Comrade Kim Jong Un who visited the university with his boundless love, trust and warm blessings while steadily developing the socialist education of our country into a popular and advanced one to the envy of everyone, the revolutionary and patriotic education powerfully leading the national prosperity.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was courteously greeted by President Kim Sung Chan and other leading officials of Kim Il Sung University.

Educationists of the university presented fragrant bouquets to Comrade Kim Jong Un in reflection of the boundless reverence and unanimous wishes of all the teaching staff and students.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated all the teaching staff, students and graduates of the university who are making contributions to glorifying the immortal prestige and honor of the university and accomplishing the cause of building a powerful socialist country by devoting their ardent patriotic mind to the implementation of the Party's educational policy and the country's sci-tech development through training of talented revolutionaries, high educational and scientific achievements and passion in academic studies.

Attending the commemoration event were teachers and students of Kim Il Sung University and meritorious graduates devoting themselves in various sectors of socialist construction, and students of central-level universities in Pyongyang.

Also present were foreign guests and overseas compatriots who are taking part in the international academic forum commemorating the 80th founding anniversary of Kim Il Sung University, members of foreign diplomatic missions in the DPRK and foreign students studying at the university.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important speech on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of Kim Il Sung University.

Saying that the 80th founding anniversary of the parent university, which gave origin to the training of national cadres of our state, the highest school representing the intelligence and civilization of the DPRK, is a great pride and an auspicious event of the country, he extended warm congratulations and greetings of encouragement to all the teachers and researchers who are devoting themselves to teaching to remain true to their sacred duty at the holy platform, to the students who are keen on study and research with the ambition and desire to fully demonstrate the honor of the DPRK, and to all graduates who are greeting the founding anniversary of their university with deep recollection and emotion.

Paying his respect to the noble idea of having built before anything else the pedigree establishment for training talents to be the backbone of the DPRK in the first days of nation building 80 years ago, he stressed that Kim Il Sung University is the highest dignified educational institution symbolizing our state and dynamically promoting its prosperity and development and a meritorious school of high reputation as it has trained the best talents representing the wisdom and creativity of our people with high pride.

Recalling the proud 80-year history of the university which has reliably guaranteed the far-sighted plan of the country with remarkable educational and scientific achievements since the outset of the history of the Republic, he referred to the importance of the university with a history of noble patriotism and succession to play the powerful role as an engine in ensuring remarkable success of state-building strategy at the times when the national sovereignty and prestige are guaranteed by the educational development and sci-tech sovereignty, the most important and decisive period for the present and future of our motherland.

The university should stand in the vanguard of the honorable struggle for building a powerful and prosperous country, he said, clarifying the principled issues for it to implement in the van the Party Central Committee’s line of building an educational power and a talent power and lay a firm strategic orbit for the future in line with the solemn requirements of the times and expectations of the people.

Noting that the building of an educational power, a sci-tech power and a talent power is the three essential requirements and basic guarantee for the development of Korean-style socialism insisted by our Party at present, he expressed the view and expectation of the Party Central Committee on the core and leading position and role of the university in carrying out this strategic task and advanced the tasks and ways for opening up a great new phase of socialist education in the new era with high and qualitative development of the university.

Comrade Kim Jong Un ardently called for advancing with greater confidence for the DPRK, our great motherland, and for the great ideal and great success of all the people, wishing Kim Il Sung University eternal development and glory.

His passionate speech, which indicates the immortal education programme guaranteeing the rosy future of socialist Korea for all ages with his steadfast will to glorify the DPRK as a country of education, science and talents, greatly excited the participants.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un finished his speech, all the participants raised stormy cheers as a token of their solemn pledge to firmly carry forward the proud history and tradition of the university and fulfill the honorable responsibility and duty before the times and history with its core and leading role in the country’s educational and sci-tech development.

Then, a performance for commemorating the 80th founding anniversary of Kim Il Sung University was given with splendor in the presence of Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Put on the stage were songs reflecting the proud history of the university which has trained a large number of competent talents boundlessly loyal to the country and the revolution through decades since its foundation as a genuine people's university training pillars of new Korea, and famous songs on the theme of patriotism.

The audience was deeply moved by numbers recalling the important and distinguished role and proud feats of the university shining along with the victorious journey of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

The campus of the university was filled with joy and optimism of young people as the songs reflecting the ardent aspiration and desire of the people to glorify the great motherland DPRK for all ages reverberated.

The performance was acclaimed by the audience as it splendidly decorated the founding anniversary of the highest school of our state with wonderful artistic depiction.

At the end of the performance, the audiences broke into enthusiastic cheers in reverence for Comrade Kim Jong Un again.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed expectation and belief that the teaching staff and students of Kim Il Sung University would make a dynamic leap forward and innovations in the vanguard of the revolution in education of the new era and prepare themselves to be reliable pillars and competent talents of the DPRK who are the pride of the country and the resourcefulness of the people.

All the participants vowed to devote all their wisdom and passion with loyalty to the successful implementation of the great education programme set forth by Comrade Kim Jong Un, in return to his ardent love and trust.

Comrade Kim Jong Un's congratulatory visit to Kim Il Sung University serves as an important historic occasion in which he clarified the clear path and immortal guidelines for building a revolutionary, advanced and popular educational power of our style and opened up a great new era in which the long-term development of our great state is firmly guaranteed by education. -0-