culture

In the DPRK there are a lot of monumental structures for children, including camps, palaces, primary and middle schools for orphans and hospitals.

A typical example is the Songdowon International Children’s Camp.

Located in Songdowon famous as a scenic spot by the East Sea of Korea, the children’s camp was first established in 1960 and gradually developed into the largest children’s camp in the country through renovation and expansion projects.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un visited the camp in May 2013 and took all necessary measures to wonderfully refurbish the camp which is associated with the love of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The camp is furnished with all conditions and facilities needed for spending a good time during children’s camping, including a theatre, gym, indoor swimming pool, outdoor playing ground, outdoor wading pool, outdoor stage, aquarium and aviary.

According to information available, over a hundred thousand Korean and foreign schoolchildren have spent pleasant camping days at the camp for the past decade since its renovation.

The Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace is also a monumental structure where the Korean schoolchildren cultivate their talents to their heart’s content.

On his visit to the palace in May 2014, the General Secretary set forth the task of renovating the palace closely associated with the loving care of the President and the Chairman and took measures from the designing to the supply of materials and formation of construction forces.

At the splendidly-rebuilt palace, a large number of schoolchildren conduct extracurricular activities. The members of its hobby groups have been highly appreciated through artistic performances given in different countries and regions over the world and at international concours and fine art contests of children.

Most recently, the performances given by the schoolchildren’s art troupe of the palace caused a great sensation among the residents of Primorsky Krai of Russia.

Happy laughter of schoolchildren is resounding at the splendid extracurricular education bases across the country, including the Yonphungho Children’s Camp built in a unique architectural style to blend in well with the landscape of picturesque Lake Yonphung, the Mangyongdae Children’s Camp at the foot of Mt Ryongak and Samjiyon Schoolchildren’s Palace at the foot of Mt Paektu.

Thanks to the paternal affection of the General Secretary, parentless children are growing up happily, envied by the whole country.

Pyongyang Middle School for Orphans was newly built as the model and standard of the secondary educational environment of the country on July 18 2016, Pyongyang Primary School for Orphans rose up as a smart palace for orphans in February the following year and other middle and primary schools for orphans were splendidly built in other parts of the country in succession.

The Okryu Children’s Hospital is another monumental structure built in the era of the Workers’ Party. The modern children’s medical care facility built under the energetic guidance of the General Secretary is furnished with all kinds of treatment rooms, operating theatres and sickrooms equipped with up-to-date medical facilities and even distinctively-built classrooms, playgrounds and resting places for hospitalized children.

Under the warm care of the General Secretary who defined the bright smile of children as a symbol of the socialist system and the mightiness of Korean-style socialism, such monumental structures for children is on the increase and the song We Are the Happiest in the World sung by the Korean children is reverberating more loudly throughout the country.