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National Meeting Held to Mark Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the People's Palace of Culture on July 21 to mark the 20th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Further Developing Educational Work." The work is a historic letter sent by him to the participants in the National Meeting of Active Educational Workers on July 22, Juche 73 (1984).
    It indicates the orientation and ways of further raising the level of knowledge of all members of the society including the issue of improving the quality of the universal compulsory 11-year education, the tasks to strengthen the work of training technicians and experts in the higher educational field as required by the developing reality, the issue of developing the study-while-working higher educational system, strengthening social education and establishing a revolutionary habit of study throughout the country.
    Present at the meeting were Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong Ju, Vice-President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jung Rin, Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi and others.
    Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, in a report said that the work is an ideological and theoretical treasure, an encyclopedic library of education by which President Kim Il Sung's Juche-based idea of education is firmly upheld and defended and developed and enriched and an immortal militant banner to be held fast to in developing the DPRK's education to be a revolutionary education aimed to serve the purpose of accomplishing the cause of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea.
    Under the wise guidance of the WPK the Korean style principles of education set out in the historic work have been strictly applied to education and an epochal turn has been effected in the development of socialist education to train independent and creative men and education is dynamically accelerating the triumphant advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche in the DPRK, the reporter said, and continued:
    The quality of the universal compulsory 11-year education has been improved and higher education strengthened as required by the times and the ranks of technicians and experts and forces for the development of science and education have grown stronger. As a result, the DPRK's education is making active contributions to developing the science and technology of the country to the world's level and pushing forward the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    The reporter called upon all the educational workers to train the rising generation to be fighters, who, firmly armed with the great Songun idea, are devotedly defend the leader, and further strengthen the scientific and technological education to meet the requirements of the IT age and the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    He underscored the need to steadily improve the quality of secondary general education and raise the scientific and theoretical level of higher education, deepen the work of training technicians and experts, bring up many masters and doctors in their twenties and thirties and encourage all the working people to make it a rule and habit to study.