[록화보도] 교육연구원 준공 - Pedagogical Institute Inaugurated -

The Pedagogical Institute was modernly built in the DPRK, thanks to the trust and love and wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un expecting the researchers of educational science to contribute to the realization of the Party’s plan for building an educational power and firmly guarantee the country’s education with science by faithfully fulfilling their mission and duty. The institute has a higher education center, a general education center, an exhibition hall for educational scientific research findings, cultural and welfare facilities, etc. The institute will be able to smoothly discharge its mission and duty as the center for education science research making a tangible contribution to the educational revolution in the new century since it has been splendidly built as befitting a central educational scientific research organ and an advisory organ for educational policy specializing in the study of the country’s education science and ensuring unified guidance over it. An inaugural ceremony took place on August 16. Present there were Choe Tong Myong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Sung Du, chairman of the Education Commission, Cha Ki Chol, director of the Pedagogical Institute, builders of the Pyongyang Construction Commission and officials, researchers and employees of the Education Commission, the Pedagogical Institute and relevant units. Vice-Premier Jon Sung Guk made an inaugural address to be followed by speeches. At the end of the ceremony, its participants went round the institute.