Since then, it has trodden a prideful path of triumph and glory for nearly 70 years, with the advance of the Korean revolution, under the guidance of President
At its incipience, it made rapid progress in all branches of university work and produced its first graduates in December, Juche 38(1949).
During the grim Fatherland Liberation War, when the fate of the country was at stake, the staff and students of the university took up arms and fought to defend the country at the risk of their lives. Under a special measure taken by President
During the periods of postwar reconstruction in the 1950s and building of socialism, it had held fast to the principle of Juche in its education and scientific research activities to give a boost to the efforts to build a prosperous nation. In particular, under the energetic guidance of Chairman
While implementing the Theses on Socialist Education put forward by President
The university is striving to train talents who are ideologically steadfast and versed in modern science and technology so as to support the Party's plan for building a thriving socialist nation. It is also endeavoring to complete its academic structure at a high level befitting a world-class university.
The lecturers, researchers and graduates of the university have always played a pivotal role and made great achievements in upholding Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and the Party's policies and in developing the theories of Juche-based social sciences and addressing scientific and technological problems arising in the building of a thriving socialist country.
With only seven faculties, 68 lecturers and 1 500 students in its initial years, the university has turned into a temple of Juche-oriented education and a powerhouse for training national cadres, which has seven colleges in the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine and scores of faculties, plus different research institutes and laboratories.
Most of its lecturers and researchers are holders of high academic degrees or titles including renowned academicians, professors and doctors, who ensure a high-level education for undergraduates, postgraduates and those enrolled in postdoctoral courses.
The university plays the role of the country's most authoritative and leading institution of tertiary education and research and an academic centre that pushes the development of all areas including politics, the economy, science, education and the press.
With the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the supreme temple of Juche, in the vicinity, the university boasts satisfactory material and technical conditions for education and research ranging from magnificent buildings, e-library, indoor swimming pool, gymnasium and well-equipped labs to a good supply of facilities for leisure activities and living.
The university is promoting friendship and cooperation with foreign universities across the world.
Since Juche 43(1954), thousands of exchange students and scholars from 31 countries including China and Russia have finished undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral courses at the university, while a great number of lecturers and researchers of the university have interned or worked as visiting professors at numerous foreign universities to teach Korean.
The university is now engaged in various projects for exchange and cooperation with Beijing University of China, Lomonosov Moscow State University of Russia and other foreign universities, which cover exchange of lecturers, experts and students, holding of international seminars, joint research and joint development of materials. Millions of foreigners and overseas Koreans have visited the university.
Today, the university is working hard to raise education and research onto a world-class level and bring about research hits that will contribute to the building of a prosperous nation.
