The popular education system of the DPRK is a true free education one that provides broad sections of the working people including workers and farmers and their children with the right to and freedom of learning, and gives progressive and democratic education.…

Universal compulsory education is intended to give all members of society the substantial right to education while binding them to the duty to learn so that they get education without exception.…

The DPRK’s system of bringing up and educating children makes it possible to raise and educate the children collectively in modern surroundings so that they can grow up as masters of society and reliable reserve builders of a powerful socialist nation.…

Thanks to the energetic guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the 6^th Session of the 12^th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK adopted on September 25, Juche 101 (2012) a law on introducing universal 12-year compulsory education. …