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More than 10 years have passed since the Pyongyang Baby Home and Pyongyang Orphanage were built on the banks of the picturesque Taedong River.

People call them, covering a wide area in one of the excellent places of the capital city of Pyongyang, the homes of happy children.  

The Pyongyang Baby Home and Pyongyang Orphanage are the houses of parentless children which were built under the warm loving care of respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un.  

In February 2014, the respected General Secretary visited the baby home and orphanage located in a residential area in Pyongyang and learned in detail about the upbringing and education of the children. 

That day, he said that the parentless children are also the successors to the revolution and future pillars of the country and that it is the firm determination of the Workers’ Party of Korea to build all the baby homes and orphanages across the country at the level of revolutionary schools for the training of children of revolutionary martyrs. And he promised that he would ensure the baby home and orphanage in Pyongyang are newly built on the picturesque Taedong River banks.

As a result, the construction of the Pyongyang Baby Home and Pyongyang Orphanage was carried out as major construction projects of the country and they were completed in October, only several months after the visit.

On his visit to the completed childcare facilities, the respected General Secretary said that as he came to provide the parentless children with the best dream houses, he was very pleased as if he plucked a star from the sky and earnestly requested their nurses and teachers to enhance their responsibility and role in bringing them up well.

On January 1 2015, he visited them again soon after delivering the New Year Address and paid close attention to the upbringing and education of the children, looking round several places including the bedrooms and wading pool.  

As they are the places for happy living of the parentless children built under such warm loving and meticulous care and the homes showing his growing love for them, visitors to them often say that they are the children’s palace to be envied even by children with parents.

Once, a foreigner said after visiting the Pyongyang Baby Home and Pyongyang Orphanage that many countries in the world regard it as a tough task and an economic burden to look after orphans, but in the DPRK the state attaches importance to the upbringing of children and provides them with full conditions for their happy life.

People do not know well how enormous benefits and how meticulous care are delivered to the parentless children by the state, said Choe Song Ran, who has been working as the director of the Pyongyang Orphanage for decades. “Respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un takes full responsibility for the destiny and future of the parentless children as well as their life and education. His warm embrace is indeed the home of our children.”