Under the care of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government, generalization of sports among masses has long been pushed ahead in the country.

Everyone is encouraged to take part in sports activities and, in the course, young children with sports genius are selected as reserve athletes.

Many schoolchildren have trained their sporting skills according to their hobbies and hopes at juvenile sports schools and at sports groups of various-level schools and schoolchildren's palaces and halls across the country.

They would also gain experience and raise their skills through annual national games of juvenile sports schools, schoolchildren's sports contest and other contests.

The said system for training reserve athletes has yield desired results. Last year, 34 new records were established and 55 gold medals were gained at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships alone.