DPRK's Nursing and Upbringing System of Children

DPRK's Nursing and Upbringing System of Children

Pyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) -- Thirty-five years has passed since the Law on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children was adopted in the DPRK. In his lifetime President Kim Il Sung always paid deep concern to the nursing and upbringing of children. Though the country was in difficult conditions after the liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, he took measures to build nurseries and kindergartens throughout the country and establish a system of taking care of them at the state expense. The system worked well even in the days of the Fatherland Liberation War. More nurseries, kindergartens and schools were built for war orphans during the days. With foundations of the self-supporting economy laid and a socialist system established in the country after the war, the President guided the effort for developing the nursing and upbringing system. The number of nurseries and kindergartens was raised sharply and their material foundations consolidated. Their teachers also increased numerically. Basing himself on the achievement in nursing and bringing up children, the President had the law adopted on April 29, Juche 65 (1976). The law grants great benefits to the Korean childre