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When asked what the greatest sorrow is, people often say that it is the sorrow of orphans.

But looking at the children at the Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage, they cannot but deny it.

A foreigner who visited the Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage said in admiration, "Taking care of orphans is posing as a difficult problem and economic burden in many countries of the world. But in the DPRK the Party and the state attach importance to the problem of raising children and provide them with happy living conditions." 

In October 10 years ago, the Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage were built as smart palaces for orphans in a quiet and cosy place on the banks of the picturesque Taedong River.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the baby home and orphanage in Pyongyang for the first time in February 2014. Looking round them for a long time, he was deeply concerned about how to provide the orphans with a happy cradle with good surrounding environment and ample living conditions.

Saying that the bereaved children are also the successors to our revolution and future pillars and that it is the firm determination of the Party to spruce up all the baby homes and orphanages across the country at the same level as revolutionary schools for the training of the children of revolutionary martyrs, he promised that the Party would have a new baby home and orphanage in Pyongyang built on the picturesque Taedong River.

In October that year, Kim Jong Un visited the newly-built Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage. He said that he was very pleased to see the children having been provided with the smartest houses, and instructed that the nurses and teachers of the baby home and orphanage should enhance their responsibility and role in bringing up the children.

Afterwards, similar houses for the orphaned children sprang up one after another in picturesque and sunny places in all provinces.

Under the special care of the Workers' Party of Korea for the growth of the orphans, they were supplied with fish, meat, foodstuffs, industrial goods, fruit and other things on a regular basis. Happy looks of them delighted with gifts impressed people across the country.

Choe Song Ran, who has been working as the director of the Pyongyang Orphanage for decades, said that she had witnessed and experienced warm and benevolent affection of the Party for the orphans so many times. She continued to say, “Though they are bereft of their parents, our orphans are feeling no sorrow in the warm embrace of the respected fatherly Marshal. They are the most blessed children in the world.”