Home of Child Prodigies

To protect and take good care of children is one of legal and moral obligations for a state and society, and it also serves as a yardstick to evaluate the future of society and the benefits of human rights in it.

However, the abovementioned obligations are not universally met in every social system nor entitled to every child, as it is a general practice that people approach a thing, or a phenomenon, with different viewpoints and attitudes.

It is only in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, known worldwide as Juche Korea, that the respected General Secretary bestows the most ennobling and devoted, and warmest love on every child throughout the country, himself becoming their good-natured father and meticulous mother.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"The work for the younger generation is the most important of the affairs of our Party."

In the DPRK where the Party and the state assume full responsibility for children are produced a lot of legendary tales of love for the younger generations bestowed by the great leaders Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The great leaders have called the children kings and queens of the country and made the love for them a crucial undertaking to which the Party and the state should direct primary efforts among all others, and the respected General Secretary brilliantly carries forward the love of the preceding leaders.

Kyongsang Kindergarten, well-known worldwide as the home to music prodigies, is closely associated with benevolence of the great leaders.

Built on the site personally chosen by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in Changjon Street of Pyongyang, the kindergarten was opened on April 1, Juche43(1954). It was originally an institution for education and edification of children in the specific residential district.

In May Juche68(1979) it was promoted to an educational institution for early musical training of preschool children, the first of its kind in the DPRK, true to the instructions of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il for establishing an early preschool musical education system.

Since then the kindergarten creditably fulfilled its mission as the pedigree base for early musical education of preschool children under the meticulous care of the peerlessly great persons of Mt. Paektu.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who has embodied the love of the great leaders for younger generation, saw to it that it was rebuilt splendidly on the world standard in a matter of a year and opened in Juche101(2012).

Sprawling over 1 240 square meters with a total floor space of 5 000 square meters, it has four stories above and one under the ground. It serves as an institution for education and edification of children to be proud of internationally, as it is provided with excellent educational conditions and environment and facilities and assumes an appearance of the base for preschool art education.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the kindergarten on two occasions in less than two months after it was spruced up into the crystallization of our Party's love for younger generations.

When he visited it on May 30, Juche101(2012), the respected General Secretary said with great satisfaction that it had been built in a unique way. He then made rounds of the interior and exterior of the kindergarten with parental affection so as to ensure that not a slightest defect should be allowed. He also stressed the need to provide good conditions for children so that they would feel no discomfort in life.

After giving important instructions related to education of preschool children, he enjoyed a performance given by kindergarteners and spoke highly of them for their good performance of piano recital and vocal solo. When the performance was over, he expressed his satisfaction over the kindergarten for training reserve artistes in large numbers, as well as excellent performance of the kindergarten children and their high artistic standards.

Thanks to the great love and solicitude of the great leaders, the kindergarten has so far produced a lot of music prodigies. Among them are Yu Pyol Mi who won a special prize at the 56th Schumann International Children's Piano Contest; Ma Sin A, winner of the 9th Rakhmaninov International Piano Concours, the 10th International Juvenile Musicians Concours and the 4th International Piano Competition for Children and Youth; Choe Ji Ye who took the first place in the Henry Piano Concours in 2013 and 2014; Ri Yu Jong and Hong Su Ryon who were awarded special prizes in the 20th and 23rd International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth.

Numerous graduates from the kindergarten constitute reliable pillars in the field of literature and the arts, as talented conductors, creators and instrumentalists who are rendering active services to the music development of the country.

Kyongsang Kindergarten is, indeed, associated with warm love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for children, and is the cradle of children's happiness, the palace of love and the dear home to child prodigies.

That is why many foreign visitors to the kindergarten expressed their admiration in the following vein: As I look round Kyongsang Kindergarten, I realize that the educational policy in the DPRK is the most excellent policy which can be found nowhere else in the world. It is quite natural for the DPRK to train excellent children with astonishing talents in such a wonderful kindergarten. The DPRK made me have a beautiful dream which I have never dreamed of, and I was really hypnotized by this country.

At present all the kindergartens in the DPRK are turning into modern bases for education of children as suited to their ages and mental features and in accordance with the pedagogical requirements, thanks to the powerful measures guaranteed by the state law and growing public interest.

A bright, promising future is in store for the Korean children who are growing happily under the warm care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who regards the love for younger generation as a matter of paramount importance for the state.