Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- Today is International Day of Education.

The DPRK regards education as the first state priority that deserves the greatest effort at any time and stage and as the most responsible and important affair that requires steady progress.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un set forth the general goal of education - developing education to the extent that it can be entrusted with guaranteeing the future of the country - and indicated the tasks and ways for Juche-oriented education in his such works as "Let Us Make Ours a Country of Education and a Talent Power by Bringing about a Radical Improvement in Education in the New Century".

During his visit to Pyongyang University of Architecture, he bestowed honour upon it, saying that he would become the honorary president of the university. When he visited Kim Chaek University of Technology on its 70th founding anniversary, he said the university is the one in which the Workers' Party of Korea reposes its deepest trust and takes pride and prioritizes.

At the flood-hit areas of Uiju County, North Phyongan Province in August 2024, he said that the issue of nursing and educating children and students is the first state affair never to be set aside no matter what, and took important measures to this end. So an emergency system was activated to bring all the children and students in the flood-hit areas to Pyongyang to be nursed and educated in a safe and convenient environment at the state expense.

The important meetings of the Party and the state discussed the issue of education as an important agenda item and took measures for its implementation, thus providing a guarantee for putting the country's education on a higher stage.

Last year, an integrated school, composed of a kindergarten, a primary school, junior and senior middle schools, was inaugurated in Rangnang District, Pyongyang. New schools were built in different parts of the country and the tele-education system has been dynamically operated to make all the people well versed in science and technology.

Against this backdrop, the overall educational work is improving and many talents have been trained to add glory to the country at the International Math Olympiad, the World Memory Championships, etc.

These successes in the field of education are brilliant fruition of the Workers' Party Korea's ideas and leadership of attaching importance to education. -0-