He went on:

The Sixth Session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly adopted an ordinance "On enforcing universal 12-year compulsory education".

I was deeply touched to hear this news.

It is something amazing that such education is to be enforced in the homeland despite its hard economic conditions.

Such thing can take place in our homeland only which has paid primary attention to the education of the younger generation.

I keenly realized the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un's noble love for the younger generation and future as he has creditably carried forward the idea and cause of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who spared nothing for the rising generation.

The enforcement of the above-said compulsory education is a great event showing before the whole world the real picture of the country dynamically advancing as a highly civilized socialist country under the banner of the great Juche idea.

It provided a sure guarantee for putting the secondary general education on a higher stage.

Education is a very important work for the future of the nation and the younger generation. It is one of the key issues on which hinge the rise and fall of the country.

When looking back on history, the homeland spared nothing for the development of the education of the rising generation.

Under the wise leadership of the great Generalissimos the education in the homeland covered the path of steady development. It enforced the universal 11-year compulsory education, the first of its kind in the world.

It is thanks to the fine policy of the party and state that the homeland turned into a country of education and learning.

Whenever I visited the homeland, I was deeply impressed to see such educational facilities as modern schools and schoolchildren's palace and centers for extracurricular education.

In this course, I deeply grasped the advantages of the socialist education system in the homeland.

Great successes being achieved in the homeland are associated with the shining feats and merits of the young scientists and other young people who received Juche-based education.

The new education system will prove successful thanks to Kim Jong Un's love for the rising generation and the future as he is wisely leading the new century of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's Korea to victory and glory.

The children of Koreans in Japan, too, are given ample opportunity of learning at their schools, their talents in full bloom, under the deep care of the immensely benevolent socialist homeland.

I will do my best to train all students to be reliable pillars giving steady continuity to the tradition of patriotism and that of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan true to the leadership of Kim Jong Un.