Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, delivered a speech at the opening meeting of the 15th National Conference of Teachers held in early September in the country’s capital city of Pyongyang, which illustrated the position of educators in the country and the trust and expectation of the state and communities towards them.

Teacher Put alongside Mother
It is said that educators of the DPRK treat their students with the affection of a mother. They regard it as their mission to care for every aspect of students’ studies and life, as well as imparting of knowledge to and moral education for them. Among them are those who taught her students with locomotive disabilities carrying them piggyback to and from school rain or shine and took orphaned students to their homes to raise them admirably.
Describing these educators in his speech, Kim Jong Un said that if there is anything in the world that can be put alongside the sacred and noble appellation of mother, it is probably that of teacher, adding that where mothers give children life, our teachers are just the benefactors who nurture and train them.
After all, he has placed the position of the teachers at the same level as the sacred one of mothers.

Designers and Builders of Mainstay of State and Revolution
Today, with an eye to comprehensive development of its socialism, the DPRK seeks to make its education the best one everyone is envious of and wants to receive, the world-class education that dynamically leads the effort for achieving the prosperity of the country. As part of the effort, it has recently started new selective courses according to the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme. 
In such circumstances, the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government have entrusted the important affair decisive of the future of the country to teachers and put them forward as the designers and builders of the mainstay of the state and the revolution.
Many undertakings are being carried on in wide realms and lots of them require a great deal of effort, he said in his aforesaid speech, adding that, however, the Party and state will make unsparing efforts and show devotion to lead the progress of education and to support the teaching platform the teachers are standing on. This is enough to guess how great trust he places in the educators.