Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA): The 15th National Conference of Teachers opened with splendour in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, on September 2 at a historic time when the educational revolution for turning our state into the most advanced country in education in the world has been intensified at a new high stage according to the original idea of the Workers' Party of Korea on attaching importance to education and under its wise guidance.

The conference, convened amid the special concern of the Party and the government regarding the training of the rising generation and talents as the most important affair of the revolution and the great expectation of all the people, constitutes an essential and responsible process for successfully attaining the grand goals set forth by the Ninth Congress of the WPK before the educational sector, including the thorough implementation of the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme.

The conference will analyze and review in depth the implementation of the Party's educational policy for the past seven years after the 14th National Conference of Teachers and discuss the realistic issues for promoting the new qualitative development of our education.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the conference.

When Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the conference, the participants raised stormy cheers.

All the participants paid the highest tribute and glory to the outstanding leader, the great teacher who is ushering in a brilliant heyday of development of the Juche-oriented education with his distinguished idea and leadership and ardent love for the rising generation.

Present at the conference were exemplary educators from across the country, leading personnel in the field of education from Pyongyang and local areas, officials of relevant units and members of the delegation of educators of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).

Its platform was taken by senior Party and government officials, chief secretaries of provincial committees of the WPK, leading officials of major educational institutions, exemplary teachers and educational workers, officials of the sponsoring organizations and the head of the Chongryon delegation of educators.

Kim Jong Un made a significant speech to open the conference.

It is an unquestionable fact and our consistent principle that the education work is the most important state affair that cannot and should not lag behind the work of any other fields, he said, expressing his pleasure to personally convey the expectation of the WPK Central Committee attaching special importance to the current conference and extend a greeting of deep respect he had always wanted to pay to the teachers.

Where mothers give children life, our teachers are just the benefactors who nurture and train them, he noted, offering the highest tribute and thanks to all educational workers across the country who chose the honourable yet challenging career of teacher for themselves and keep their sacred posts with an ennobling sense of responsibility and by dint of their lofty personality, and to all the educators of Chongryon.

We are now etching the 15th grand meeting of teachers in the history of its kind, but I do not think that any of the previous conferences is on a par with the current one as the teachers have greeted it honourably and proudly with the priceless fruits dedicated to the country and the achievements recognized by their fellow people, he said, praising the reality of the educational sector which is undergoing a truly dramatic change in the wide realm of system and structure, content and method, conditions and environment, and public interest and support in only a few years, instead of in one decade or two.

He once again expressed the ideal and will of the Party to make ours the best education that everyone is envious of and wants to get, the world-class education that dynamically leads the effort for achieving the prosperity of the country, and the deep trust in all the educators who are designers and builders of the mainstay of the state and the revolution and the motive force of the educational revolution. And he declared the conference open with his confidence in its success.

The participants burst into stormy cheers, out of their boundless reverence for and gratitude to Kim Jong Un who shows great trust in and love for the teachers, putting them forward as true patriots cultivating the future of the country to the envy of the world.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

A congratulatory group of the Korean Children's Union entered the venue to recite a congratulatory poem.

At the end of the recitation, the venue was overflowing with great excitement of the participants again.

Expressing his conviction about the successful conference once again, Kim Jong Un warmly encouraged all the participants.

The venue was filled with the boundless pride of the participants glorifying the honour of soldiers standing at the forefront of the talent education in the great era of transformation and career revolutionaries.

Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, made a report.

He said that the past seven years since the 14th National Conference of Teachers are the proud annals which witnessed a radical change and remarkable progress in education along with the powerful trend towards ushering in a great golden age of the DPRK true to the outstanding ideology of Kim Jong Un and under his leadership.

He noted that Kim Jong Un, who holds up talented persons and science and technology as the main strategic resources and the most powerful motive force of self-sustenance and self-development, comprehensively clarified the tasks facing teachers in implementing the Party's policy on bringing about a radical turn in education. He added that at the Eighth Congress of the WPK, Kim Jong Un set it as the general goal of education to develop education into the one to which the future of the country can be entrusted and clearly indicated the principle and ways for carrying out the revolution in education.

The reporter said that according to the steadfast will and determination of the WPK Central Committee which values each process and link of the educational work as the affair for the eternal prosperity of the country and the revolution, the education was placed high on the agenda at important Party and state meetings and policies were adopted to dynamically make a turning point in the educational revolution.

He referred to the wise leadership and undying feats of Kim Jong Un, who set it forth as the main task of the educational sector to improve the structure, contents and methods of education and as a prerequisite for the development of education to build up the ranks of teachers, took practical measures to this end and made sure that the work for improving the educational conditions and environment was pushed forward in all spheres including the capital city, regions and urban and rural areas on a large scale.

The reporter noted that all educators across the country have led a worthwhile and happy life under the care of Kim Jong Un, who highly praises the teachers devoting all their wisdom and energy to education as true patriots and meritorious persons and puts them on the platform of glory.

Saying that Kim Jong Un is the outstanding leader ushering in a heyday of the development of education with his noblest outlook on the younger generation and future and with his far-sighted view and wise leadership and bringing earlier the rosy future of our powerful and prosperous state, the reporter reviewed the remarkable successes achieved in the educational sector over the past seven years under the care of the WPK Central Committee.