N Korea leader meets Kim Il-Sung University teaching staff.

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PYONGYANG, April 13 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has
visited in the country's capital Kim Il-Sung University that is regarded
here as "the supreme sanctuary of sciences and a powerful training base
for the national cadres."
The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on
Tuesday that during several hours the Secretary General of the Workers'
Party of Korea (WPK) and Chairman of the State Defence Committee "was
conducting a field guidance in a modern electronic library recently built
in this leading higher educational establishment of the country."
According to KCNA, General Secretary Kim Jong-Il gave field guidance
to the newly-built E-Library at Kim Il-Sung University.
He looked round the interior of the library including reading rooms
and remote-controlled lecture rooms for a long while to acquaint himself
in detail with its construction and technical equipment. He expressed
great satisfaction with the successful construction of the modern library
which meets the need of the age of knowledge-based economy.
Noting that all structures of the wonderfully-built library are
associated with the warm patriotic devotion of soldier-builders, he highly
appreciated the feats performed by the servicepersons of the unit who have
always played a vanguard role in the socialist construction.
Seeing the happy students absorbed in scientific inquiry, fully
enjoying the benefits of the advantageous socialist educational system at
the library, he was very pleased with the fact that it has become possible
to hand over to posterity an edifice of eternal value which may remain
impeccable even in the distant future, the agency reported. He underlined
the need to always pay deep attention to the study and life of the
students intensely loyal to the Party and the revolution as they are
treasures of the country.
He said that in order to build more structures in the era of Songun as
required by the aesthetic desire and need of the Korean people it is
necessary to actively explore and apply new, unique and peculiar
architectural style and steadily bring about innovations in the formative
art of the construction, according to KCNA.
It said that after going round the Educational and Scientific
Exhibition of the university, he highly appreciated the shining feats
performed by the university. He said that the university has trained a lot
of revolutionary talents for the last more than six decades, thus playing
a pivotal role in implementing the nation's policy of training native
cadres and its policy of intellectualising all members of the society. The
university has rendered great services for the development of the nation's
science and technology by actively conducting scientific researches, he
added.
He met the teachers and researchers who have performed distinguished
feats in the education and scientific researches at the university and
gave a warm pep-talk to them. He watched a swimming contest of students
under way at the indoor swimming pool before commanding a bird's-eye view
of the university town covering a vast area of Ryongnam Hill, KCNA
reported.
Feasting his eyes on the school buildings, dormitories, libraries,
indoor stadium and various other facilities for education and upbringing
standing in good order around Ryongnam Hill, he said that it is the high
pride of the WPK and people of the DPRK to have prestigious Kim Il-Sung
University, the highest seat of Juche-based education.
Noting that the university is a precious treasure for national
prosperity to be handed down to the generations to come, he set forth
highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines for developing the
university, according to KCNA.
He was accompanied by Choe Thae Bok and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the
C.C., the WPK, and Kim Kyong Hui, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Yong Il and Kim
Yang Gon, department directors of the C.C., the WPK, and its other senior
officials.
The North Korean leader appeared in public not long before one of the
main national holidays - Birthday of the first and "perpetual" President
of the country Kim Il-Sung that will be marked on April 15.
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