In April 1954, President Kim Il Sung visited the Pyongyang Primary School No. 14.
The President had a construction enterprise to promptly rehabilitate the school building severely destroyed by the war.
In those days, labor forces and materials were quite saved as the postwar rehabilitation began on a full-fledged scale. An official, therefore, told his opinion to the President that calculation for school reconstruction was not well made as materials needed for major ordered construction projects were also insufficient.
However, the President said in a firm voice that we had nothing to spare for children and it was for their happiness that we fought shedding our bloods to defend the country.
That day the President looked round a few schools more to know the general situation. Then, he went to a new building constructed in the central part of the capital and ardently appealed to officials to give it up to children no matter how they worked at a half-underground house for some time.
