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  "id": 11124895,
  "title": "N. Korea's Kim urges top university to lead building of 'powerful' country",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/n-koreas-kim-urges-top-university-to-lead-building-of-powerful-country-11124895",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-01T06:32:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/northkorea/20261001/n-koreas-kim-urges-top-university-to-lead-building-of-powerful-country"
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  "account": "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently visited Kim Il Sung University to commemorate its 80th founding anniversary, urging the prestigious institution to play a pivotal role in building a powerful and prosperous nation, according to state media reports. Addressing faculty and students on Wednesday, Kim emphasized that the university, as the country's highest dignified educational institution, should lead the honorable struggle towards this goal. Founded on October 1, 1946, in honor of Kim's grandfather and the nation's founder, Kim Il-sung, the university holds a unique position as North Korea's first higher education institution. To achieve this vision, Kim stressed the three essential requirements: an educational power, a scientific and technological power, and a talent power. He underscored that educational development and scientific and technological sovereignty are the most crucial and decisive factors for the country's present and future. Kim further called for a new phase of socialist education in the new era, advocating for high and qualitative development.",
  "summary": "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited Kim Il Sung University to mark its 80th founding anniversary, urging the school to help build \"a powerful and prosperous\" country, state media reported Thursday. Calling the university the country's \"highest dignified educational institution,\" Kim told the faculty and students on Wednesday that the school \"should stand in the vanguard of the honorable…",
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        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "N. Korea's Kim urges top university to lead building of 'powerful' country",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/n-koreas-kim-urges-top-university-to-lead-building-of-powerful-country",
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