Happy Day when School Starts

 2026.4.1.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/24023

Today all schools, colleges, and universities hold opening ceremonies with the start of the new school year.

On the first day of April, students across the country wearing new uniforms with flowers pinned on their breast pockets hurry to enter the gates of schools and universities equipped with wonderful educational environment and facilities; they are carrying Sonamu backpacks filled with various Haebaragi and Mindulle stationery. Their happiness is all thanks to the measures taken by the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government.

The children and grown-ups alike are all filled with joy: their bright faces bring a festive atmosphere and their happy laughter echoes as cheers for socialism.

This is just one among many that literally shows the validity and vitality of our Party’s policy of giving importance to education.

It is the firm will of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to build the most prosperous country in the world and guarantee its eternal future with the might of education. He has unfolded a grand plan of building an education power and talent power, regarding education as the primary state affair which can never be put aside even during the most difficult situation.

True to his plan and under the deep concern of the Party and the State, the construction and modernization of schools are well underway across the country, and top priority has been given to the supply of stationery, school equipment and materials. Teachers and students are provided with favorable conditions for education, and we witness among the people an ever upward trend and enthusiasm of attaching importance to education and supporting educational sectors.

Education is indeed a patriotic undertaking of shaping the beautiful future of the country.

All the new students starting school today will cherish deep in their hearts the benefits they are enjoying and return this love of the Party and the State with high academic records and noble moral traits. They will proudly grow up to become the genuine workers and reliable pillars of the country.

Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson

Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement on Thursday:

Shortly ago, the UN Human Rights Council adopted another illegal "resolution" malignantly pulling up the DPRK over its human rights situation.

The "resolution", cooked up actively by those countries habituated to inveterate repugnancy toward the DPRK, is a political fraud document full of false data that totally distorted the DPRK's policy for ensuring genuine human rights and its actual situation.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry brands the adoption of this anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" as a grave political provocation to the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and denounces and rejects it in the strongest tone.

In the DPRK where the state has promoted the people's rights and well-being in an entirely responsible manner, genuine human rights are guaranteed in full accord with the independent demand and interests of the working masses.

The "human rights" racket, frequently kicked up at the UN arena by the hostile forces obsessed with prejudice and malignant viewpoint on the DPRK, does never represent the mindset of the international community aspiring after justice and equality. And the selective human rights discussion system targeting individual countries is a hostile act contrary to the spirit of the UN Charter which stipulates the principles of sovereignty equality and non-interference in internal affairs.

The practice of adopting such anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" which has lasted for 20-odd years is epitome fully showing the deplorable present situation of the UN human rights arena extremely polluted by politicization, selectivity and double standards.

The urgent task facing the UN Human Rights Council at present is to thoroughly investigate the hideous unethical crimes caused by the hegemonic forces' state-sponsored terrorism and infringement upon sovereignty and take practical measures for calling them to account.

In the Middle East, massacres are being committed one after another to put the crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War into the shade. Even, more than a hundred of children, to be specially protected in any case, became the targets of precisely guided weapons to be killed. Such a tragedy has been a daily occurrence in that region.

The cold reality, in which the international law and norms and order are mercilessly violated and the encroachment on national sovereignty is led to human rights abuses due to the hegemonic forces' ambition for aggression, implants deep in the world people the iron truth that to defend the national sovereignty precisely means the defending of human rights.

The DPRK remains unchanged in its stand to defend in every way the dignity and sovereignty of the state and the rights and interests of the people from any threat and smear campaign of the hostile forces.

The recent malicious behavior of those countries, who were involved in slandering and insulting the most popular and righteous state and social system of the DPRK while blindly following the hostile forces, will be surely taken into account.

The DPRK will as ever remain faithful to its responsibility and mission to thoroughly guarantee the peace, wellbeing and genuine right to life of its people. -0-

Appeal to Working Class and Trade Union Members across DPRK

Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea issued an appeal to the working class and trade union members across the country on March 30, under the title "Let us fully demonstrate the strong spirit of the heroic Korean working class in the sacred struggle for the comprehensive development of socialism, cherishing the great trust of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea as lifeblood".

The appeal said that an all-people general advance for the brilliant fulfillment of the new Five-Year Plan began along the road of victory indicated by the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

The Party Central Committee designed a brighter future of our country, believing in the mettle of the struggle of our working class who invariably carried forward the traditions of loyalty and patriotism in the annals of the revolution, the appeal said, and went on:

All the working class and trade union members!

Let us take the lead in ushering in a new proud era of national prosperity surpassing the past five years with more innovative and more strenuous efforts, bearing in mind the ardent patriotic idea and intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The workers and trade union members in the metallurgical industry sector, the key industry of our economy!

Let us systematically increase the production of iron and steel, as befitting the eldest son of the country who has set high goals for himself, challenged the impossibility and upheld the Party's plan and determination, thus strongly guaranteeing the growth and development of the overall economy.

The workers and trade union members in the chemical industry sector!

You should hold fast to self-reliance and science and technology as lifeline and kindle the flames of the drive for increased production and creation so as to push ahead with the drive for putting the chemical industry on an independent and modern basis.

The workers and trade union members in the electric-power and coal industries!

You should always connect the blood vessel with Pyongyang, the capital city, and play a powerful engine's role in the vanguard of carrying out the new Five-Year Plan with patriotic enthusiasm.

You should be a source of enthusiasm and inexhaustible driving force that adds light and heat to our advancing country, as befitting the core of the country defending the forward base of the self-supporting economy!

Let us launch an intensive competition for modernization and quality improvement by following the fighting spirit and mettle of the working class of the Ryongsong Machine Complex who created the Chollima spirit in the new era, and thus turn the country's machine industry into a development- and creation-oriented one.

The workers and trade union members in the construction sector should turn the capital city of Pyongyang into a world-class city and make the regional areas and rural areas seethe with the creation of new legendary tales of construction by embodying the spirit and mettle with which they brought about eye-opening miracles and changes through the vigorous revolution in construction!

The workers and trade union members in the building-materials industry should perform greater miracles and innovations, following the workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex who are standing in the van of the struggle involving the whole country, holding the torch of the times embodying the secret of the development of our state!

The workers and trade union members in the sector of railway transport!

Let us further consolidate the material and technical foundations of the railways by dint of the socialist patriotic movement and continue to carry forward the traditions of the proud campaign of increased railway transport!

The workers and trade union members in the light industry sector!

Let us bear in mind that even a single product reflects the Party's policy and the conscience of the working class toward the Party's decisions.

The workers and trade union members in the fishing industry sector!

You should regard fish farming and aquaculture as the main direction in the development of the fishing industry and attain at any cost the goal for fisheries production set by the Party, thus making a positive contribution to improving the people's standard of living.

The scientists and technicians defending the primary scouting front of the Korean revolution!

You should set an ambitious goal to outpace the world and achieve more significant and perfect practical successes with tireless research and patriotic enthusiasm, thus guaranteeing the fulfillment of the Party's plan and the new Five-Year Plan.

Let us all make redoubled efforts in all realms of education, public health and culture so as to powerfully promote the overall social development.

The reliable workers and trade union members in the munitions industry sector who have always been faithful to the honorable title bestowed by the Workers' Party of Korea - the revolutionary industrial workers!

Let us wage a more vigorous struggle for the sustained development of the self-reliant defence capabilities, the cornerstone of the state's existence, in the revolutionary spirit of implementing the Party's determinations and plans devotedly, unconditionally, perfectly.

All the working class and trade unions members across the country! The Party Central Committee is calling us.

The appeal said that the ideal and aspiration of the Korean people are sure to come true and the brilliant fulfillment of the new Five-Year Plan is certain as they invariably hold the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, a peerlessly great man, in high esteem as the top leader of the Party and the state. -0-

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