New kinds of textbooks were published on the basis of the experience gained last year when the Universal 12-year Compulsory Education began to be enforced.

School uniforms and school things were supplied to all entrants to primary schools across the country.

Educational environment was improved with up-to-date computers and experimental apparatuses.

Choe Kon, a freshman at Kim Il Sung University, told KCNA that he felt refreshed to study at the university, the highest seat of Juche-oriented education.

Song Un Byol, mother of O Su Hyang, a new entrant to the Sangsin Junior Secondary School in Sosong District, Pyongyang said in tears that her daughter has benefited from the universal free compulsory 12-year education system. She will bring up her daughter to be a talent, she added.

Choe Ok Gum, principal of Songnam Primary School in Songchongang District, Hamhung City, said that she would do her best to train the pupils to be pillars of Songun (military-first) Korea equipped with ample knowledge, high morality and strong body, true to the educational policy of the Workers' Party of Korea.