Pyongyang, September 4 (KCNA) -- Media of several countries widely introduced the advantageous socialist education system of the DPRK in which the whole country turned into an institute of learning.

ATV station of Egypt noted that President Kim Il Sung had already enforced the various popular policies including the free education system at the guerilla bases in the period of the arduous anti-Japanese war. Today this has become the historical roots and brilliant tradition of the education in the DPRK, it added.

The Chinese People's Daily said that attaching importance to education is a tradition of the DPRK. It went on:

Kim Il Sung made public "Theses on Socialist Education" on Sept. 5, 1977 to comprehensively clarify the orientation and ways of improving education.

The universal 11-year compulsory education is in force in the DPRK. The state bears all the expenses for education and even the parents do not worry about their children's uniforms.

University and college students receive scholarships from the state.

The Nepali paper Arpan noted that the free education system in the DPRK is very wide and comprehensive in its subject and range. Not only the school education for the new generation but also various kinds of social education for people at job is free. The education of officials and working people is also provided at the state expense, it added.

The Apsara Television and Radio of Cambodia stressed that the ultra modern technologies possessed by some developed countries in the world are being researched and developed by the internal scientific and technological forces in the DPRK. This is a manifestation of the successful training of talents, successful education in the DPRK, it added.

The Science Technology and Education News of India said that in the DPRK all the people ranging from children to adults are under the relevant education system and all the education is free, a point that attracts increasingly greater attention of the international community.

The internet homepage of the Ukrainian Independence Federation noted that under the deep care of leader Kim Jong Il the state investment in education is increasing in the DPRK and the country is positively supporting the education.