editorial

An effective system has been set up to supply more dairy products to all children throughout the country.

It has been four years since the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea discussed and decided on the childcare policy for the younger generation, the pride and hope of the socialist country, as the most important policy.

It is the WPK’s childcare policy to supply all children with nutritious foods including dairy products on a regular basis and provide them with the best conditions for their upbringing.

Over the past four years, well over a hundred dairy cow and goat farms have been newly built and reconstructed on a large scale across the country and a regular system for the production and supply of dairy products has been established in all cities and counties.

Thanks to the childcare policy, all parts of the country are filled with children’s happy laughter.

“One of the happiest days for our nurses is the day when we weigh the children. Because whenever we measure their weights, we can see that they go up markedly," said Jo Yong Ok, head of the Kangso District Nursery.

Some parents are happy to say that as their children have dairy products every day, they look healthy and do not fall ill, others express happy worries that as they put on weight markedly, their clothes get short so fast that they have to buy new ones very often and still others are grateful to the country, saying that holidays and rest days are marked on the calendar but there are no rest days in the supply of dairy products for their children.

Cha Pok Hui, a woman living in Neighbourhood Unit No. 67 of Phyongsong-dong in Phyongsong City, said that dozens of kinds of nutrients such as kelp powder and powdered bone are supplemented to the children's food for lunch at the kindergarten and the nutritious food that she, as a mother, has never known is provided by the country.

Won Yong Ae, an old woman living in Neighbourhood Unit No. 17 of Sogam-dong in Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, said that as she saw her grandchildren grow up healthily receiving various kinds of fruits, snacks and school things under the care of the country, she felt that there is no such a benevolent country in the world and so she often told her children to do more work for this socialist system.

Precious successes conducive to implementing the childcare policy continue to be achieved in the country.