calendar>>April 1. 2009 Juche 98
Affection for Posterity
Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Opening ceremonies for the new school year for Juche 98 (2009) which begins on April 1 were held at all schools throughout the DPRK.

Incoming students, their parents, teaching staffs and students are keenly realizing the love shown by the peerlessly great persons for the rising generations.

President Kim Il Sung saw to it that Children's Corps schools were built in the guerrilla bases in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. Many policies enforced for the children after the liberation of the country were also associated with such love and benevolence of the President.

The problem of pencil production for the children was placed on the first agenda of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea. The universal 11-year compulsory education is now in force, under which the young people study to their hearts' content without paying a penny.

The children are bringing their hope into bloom in the children's palaces and children's halls established in Pyongyang, Kaesong, Samjiyon and other parts of the country.

There are many legend-like stories about branch schools for a few pupils in solitary islets far from the land and remote mountainous villages and about school trains, buses and boats.

The schools of the country never ceased their operation even in the period of the "Arduous March" and forced march.

Vans, called "king's" cars, run streets every day, carrying bean milk.

Children's camps were built in seashores and beauty spots.

The children of the DPRK, "king" of the country, are growing up stoutly as successors to the revolution and reliable reserves for the construction of a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

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