The 15th National Conference of Teachers opened with splendor 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.

The respected Comrade 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 Comrade 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.

Comrade 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.