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No 49/23 June 6, 2023
1. Party Meeting Discusses Classroom Issue
3. Protection and Proliferation of Useful Animals is Patriotic Work
4. Color Doesn’t Justify Racial Discrimination
Party Meeting Discusses Classroom Issue
June 6 this year marks the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean Children’s Union (KCU).
Greeting this holiday – a significant day for the members of the KCU, founded and developed under the care of the peerlessly great men – our people warmly look back on the great efforts of President Kim Il Sung who devoted his all to better learning environment for our children and pupils, the bright future of the country.
One of many touching stories, is about the session of the political committee of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), convened to discuss on school construction in early June, 1969.
In 1969, our country saw a sharp increase in the number of school-age children born after the war, falling short of thousands of classrooms as a rough estimate.
Given that we then had to accomplish the important yet challenging historical task of socialist industrialization, it was a heavy burden, both economically and financially, to build thousands of classrooms in a short time. Workers needed for the construction was another issue to be solved.
However, President Kim Il Sung, who was endowed with love for posterity and spared nothing for them, convened the political committee of the Central Committee of the WPK to address the classroom issue before anything else, despite the country’s difficult situation and many other important things awaiting solution.
He explained to the officials the urgent need for school construction and said it could not be solved by simply building a few hundreds and using other buildings as a temporary measure. The optimal solution is for the whole people all over the country to build new school buildings, even if it means spending every cent in the state’s coffers, he stressed.
He then proposed taking a decision to build ten thousand new classrooms. He put forward such detailed ways as provision of expenses and construction materials by the state and labor forces by all the construction enterprises, and even from all ministries and central organs including the Party Central Committee and the secretariat of the Cabinet, in case of need.
He concluded the meeting saying that it was a meeting of the parents’ association. He called on the officials over and over again to give their heart and soul to this work for the coming generation.
In the annals of human history has many stories of famous people who became a “carriage” for their beloved grandchildren and donated large sums of money for the poor children. But never has been told a story about such a benevolent father like President Kim Il Sung who even convened a Party meeting to discuss the building of classrooms for the schoolchildren with parental affection for them.
Hence the progressive peoples of the world today highly praise President Kim Il Sung who embodied noble affection for the future generation and wrote numerous stories of love. They envy our country, calling it a paradise for the children, which shines ever brighter under the leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
June 6 this year marks the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean Children’s Union.
On this meaningful day, all members of the Union are having a deep yearning for President Kim Il Sung, who loved children so dearly and devoted his heart and soul to giving them all the happiness of the world during his lifetime.
Pyongyang Schoolchildren’s Palace – the first palace built for the children under the meticulous leadership of President Kim Il Sung – also tells an unforgettable story of love.
Before the liberation, the children of this country never had a chance to come into bloom, but instead were forced to wither away, being kicked and trampled underfoot by Japanese imperialists like pebbles on streets.
Such a miserable history was put an end to when President Kim Il Sung accomplished the great cause of national liberation. He regarded our children as the kings and queens of the country and the world’s most precious beings.
Although every penny counted for the newly founded state, President Kim Il Sung initiated building a palace of the children on the money donated for the construction of the country.
President Kim Il Sung said a palace is meant for kings, but in our liberated country, our lovely young generation are the kings of the country who has the right to live in palaces. He personally chose the site for the building on Jangdae Hill, which gives a bird’s-eye view of Pyongyang.
This is how the palace for the children, the first of its kind in the history, was built on the liberated fatherland.
When the building was reduced to ruins in the flames of war just before its opening, President Kim Il Sung climbed Jangdae Hill despite the bitter cold of midwinter to map out a plan to build a bigger and more splendid palace after winning a victory in the war.
A Cabinet decision thereafter was announced on building a children’s palace in Pyongyang and a children’s hall in Kaesong in January, 1956 - the year of difficulties for our Party and people after the war.
Later, President Kim Il Sung reviewed the general blueprint of the children’s palace drawn by the designers, and gave guidance on several occasions to revise and perfect the design. He said we should build the grandest palace in the world, as it is the palace for our children who are the kings of the country.
As a result, the design of the palace was completed into a grand edifice with a total floor space of 50,000 sq meters – more than 6 times its initial design of 8,200 sq meters.
When the palace was under construction, President Kim Il Sung visited the construction site and bestowed boundless love, saying that they had been talking about building a palace for the children from the time when they were fighting against the Japanese imperialists on the mountain, and that the palace should be built into literally a royal palace, using all the best building materials in the world, be it marble or diamond.
Thanks to such great love and care, Pyongyang School Children's Palace was completed into a magnificent and modern building which serves as an all-purpose extracurricular education center equipped with rooms for different circles, a theatre, gymnasium, library, etc. It was indeed the first palace for the kings and queens of the country.
President Kim Il Sung bestowed all benevolence on our children, saying that he felt energized just looking at the light coming from the windows of the school children's palace. Today his love for children is carried on by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un saw to it that extracurricular education bases including Mangyongdae School Children's Palace, Songdowon International Children’s Camp and Mangyongdae Children's Camp were given a facelift in conformity with the requirements of the new century, saying that beloved members of the Children's Union are priceless treasure and the entirety of hope and future.
Our schoolchildren, the future of the country, are giving full play to their talents in these extracurricular educational centers enjoying the undying love and care for them.
Indeed, as we hold in high esteem the great leaders from generation to generation, happy laughter and singing of children will resound forever through the palaces for many years to come.
Protection and Proliferation of Useful Animals is Patriotic Work
June 5 is the World Environment Day.
The world is now faced with unprecedented challenges and obstacles called destruction of ecosystem caused by the rapid industrial development.
Furthermore, animals’ habitats are destroyed by desertification of forests and pollution of rivers and streams which are accelerated by profit-seeking capitalists. Therefore, animal protection is now presented as a global issue.
In the DPRK, protection of biodiversity and improvement of people’s material and cultural life are considered not only as a simple matter of routine, but as one of the state affairs.
In the Cabinet meeting held on November 20, 1962, President Kim Il Sung emphasized the importance of land administration. He said that protection of useful animals is just as important as forestation and land administration, and further research and development in biology should be conducted in order to increase the numbers of roe, deer and pheasants in mountains. He ensured that the biology faculty in Kim Il Sung University be set up to this end.
President Kim Il Sung always regarded land administration and environmental protection as a noble deed of patriotism, a work for the people. True to his noble will, Chairman Kim Jong Il put his heart and soul to adding more beauty to the country’s landscape and transforming our country, which had been called the golden tapestry of three thousand ri, into a people’s land of bliss.
In April 2012, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who embodied the noble idea of love for the country and the people cherished by the great leaders, declared the period from March to July as the time of protecting useful animals, and took measures to actively carry out the all-Party, all-state and all-people work of protecting and proliferating useful animals. At the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, he saw to it that the meeting adopts the decision to breed and set free animals like roes and pheasants in every province and to replenish feed in autumn so as to protect and increase animals.
Also at the first short training course for chief secretaries of the city and county Party committees held in March 2021, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed once again that the provincial, city and county committees should take full responsibility for setting up reserves for useful animals and making feeding grounds so as to increase the numbers of useful animals such as roes and pheasants.
Every grass and tree on this land and even romping useful animals, adding beauty to the mountains, reflect the noble world of patriotism cherished by the great leaders. That is why the tens of million people are burning their hearts with patriotism even at the glimpse of them.
Our country’s landscape will get more beautiful as the land administration and animal protection and proliferation are now being carried out more actively than ever before under the wise leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
Color Doesn’t Justify Racial Discrimination
The South African Newspaper Eyewitness News recently revealed the racial inequality in the United States citing the findings of a UN investigation team which visited the U.S. The following is the main content of the article.
As reported earlier, a black man named George Floyd was killed by a white policeman in broad daylight in Minnesota in 2020.
It instigated the UN Human Rights Council to organize in 2021 the “International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement” which was mandated to investigate the racial crimes caused by police violence on a world-wide scale. Accordingly, an investigation team was dispatched to the U.S. in May 2023.
During its 12-day visit to the country, the investigation team met with victims of racial crimes, civil rights activists, and officials of judicial and police authorities in several cities including Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York and conducted a detailed investigation into the racial discrimination in the U.S.
In an interview they gave after the visit, the investigation team pointed out that the dire living conditions of black people and the pressure put on black civil servants illustrate the fraught human rights situation in the U.S. They also stressed that the U.S. administration should be held morally accountable for the situation and introduce a comprehensive reform in order to eradicate the deep-rooted evil of racial discrimination.
A member of the team said that the racial inequality in the U.S. dated back to the very beginning of the country’s formation, but very few attempts were made so far to address the issue. He argued that racial discrimination has today infiltrated deep into different sectors of law enforcement such as arrest, detention, execution and deprivation of civil rights.
It proves that the U.S. can no longer deceive the world people with such shameless catchphrases as the “racial equality” and “public welfare”.