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It, which covers tens of thousands of square meters, consists of several buildings. It has hundreds of circle rooms, a theatre, a gymnasium, an open-air practice place, a library, an animal and plant museum and amusement rooms, etc.
It, with a capacity of accommodating more than 10,000 people a day, has made a positive contribution to the extracurricular education of schoolchildren by conducting the education in social and natural sciences, music and art, sports and other fields in various forms including circle and mass activities.
President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il have sent to the palace tens of thousands of pieces of educational apparatuses and books.
Under their warm care, the palace has brought up hundreds of thousands of pupils in the past 45 years. Among them are little musicians, dancers, computer technicians, Taekwon-Do players, calligraphers and auto-technicians.
The Pyongyang schoolchildren's art troupe formed with circle members of the palace as the main has been widely known in the world for its high degree of artistic ability.
Over the last period the troupe has performed not only at home but also in more than 30 countries including China, Japan, Indonesia, Czech Republic, Spain, Guinea and Peru amid warm applause of the audience. Such prodigies of the troupe have cultivated their artistic talent through the extracurricular education centres including the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace to their hearts' content under the care of the state.
Since the foundation of the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace, the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace and many schoolchildren's palaces and schoolchildren's halls have made their appearance in Kaesong, Samjiyon and in all provinces, cities and counties, where schoolchildren are growing up as future pillars of the country.
Choe Thae Bok said in a report that Kim Jong Il's work is an important work as it laid a milestone for effecting a landmark turn in solving the people's problem of food and developing agriculture, and a banner for dynamically pushing forward the work to improve the standard of people's living and the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
Referring to the fact that Kim Jong Il has wisely led the struggle to implement the WPK's policy of bringing about a signal turn in potato farming, the reporter noted that Taehongdan County has turned into a model unit in the drive to bring about a signal turn in potato farming and its example has been generalized throughout the country under the care of the peerlessly great man to make the waves of the above-mentioned drive sweep all parts of the country.
An important achievement made in carrying out the above-said policy is that a productive surge has been effected in potato farming, a solid scientific and technological foundation laid for it, dependable core forces for potato farming have been built and a radical turn taken place in the people's way of thinking and work style, the reporter added.
He called on all the servicepersons and people to unite closer around Kim Jong Il with one thought and purpose and dynamically accelerate the cause of building a rich and powerful nation with the might of their single-minded unity.
