He looked round the rooms for the education of the students in the revolutionary history and the room dedicated to the history of the university.

Foreseeing the future of the country after the victory in the hard-fought war, President Kim Il Sung founded the university on Oct. 1, 1953 right after the ceasefire and visited the university several times, indicating the orientation and ways for education and scientific researches.

Leader Kim Jong Il developed the university into a comprehensive seat for training talents in the fields of construction, city management, land management and environment protection and reposed such profound trust in it as entrusting the designing of monumental buildings to it.

Kim Jong Un renamed the university the Pyongyang University of Architecture, personally guided dozens of architectural designs created by teachers and students of the university and took steps to bring the education at the university to the world's level.

He said under the warm care of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il the university has come to have colleges, faculties, dozens of departments, a doctoral institute and a research institute training architectural talents in various fields, stuffed with hundreds of holders of academic degrees.

He gave instructions to the university to build well a museum showing the development of the Juche-oriented architecture at the university and eternally glorify the undying exploits the Generalissimos performed by founding the Juche-oriented idea of architectural beauty and devoting themselves to the development of the university.

Noting that more than a hundred of DPRK heroes and Labor heroes have been produced from among the graduates from the university, he stressed that this fact alone clearly proves it is playing a big role in building a rich and powerful country.

The university has demonstrated the might of the authoritative and prestigious group of architectural designers by ensuring architectural designs of national value at the highest level and creating and designing lots of architectural masterpieces, he noted, highly appreciating the successes achieved by the university over the last 60 years since its founding.

It is the great pride of the WPK to have the university, a group of able architects and a reliable base for training construction scientists and technicians, he said.

He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the university, going round different places including the educational science exhibition, architectural designing room, drawing practice room and audio-visual room for the study of foreign languages.

The Pyongyang University of Architecture is a scout party for building a highly civilized socialist country and a center for training architectural talents, he said, stressing the need to bring about a drastic turn in the education as required by the developing reality.

He said that university students should bear in mind that the future of a highly civilized country is drawn on a designing table and study hard, sparing time.

It is the firm resolution and intention of the party to develop the university into an advanced base for building a highly civilized socialist country, he said. He reposed profound trust in the university, saying he would become its honorary president.

Kim Jong Un had a photo taken with the officials of the university.

He was accompanied by Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ri Jae Il and Choe Hwi, first vice department directors of the C.C., the WPK, and Ma Won Chun, vice department director of the C.C., the WPK.