| Kim Il Sung Higher Party School | |
| Native Name: | 김일성고급당학교 |
| Type: | Party university |
| Director: | Ri Yong Sik |
| Students: | 1,200 [1] |
| City: | Kumsusan area, Pyongyang |
| Country: | North Korea |
Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (김일성고급당학교) – a key party-political educational institution in the DPRK responsible for training and preparing the managerial staff of the Workers' Party of Korea and the state apparatus that is part of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
It was founded on June 1, 1946, as the Central Party School of the Communist Party of North Korea based in Pyongyang, on the basis of the existing since November 1945 Kim Il Sung High School, who prepares political and educational officers and translators of the Russian language. On the sixtieth birthday of Kim Il Sung, in April 1972, his name was given to the university - the Kim Il Sung Higher Party School. A year later, in 1973, the university was integrated with the Marxist–Leninist School. Since 1978, it has been operating on the rights of the central educational institution.[2] [3]
The lecturers are recruited from the management staff of the Central Committee, the Academy of Sciences and the Kim Il Sung University.
A new campus was built at the demolished Kumsusan Air Field which is located at the outskirts of Pyongyang. The construction is reported began at May 2023.[4] The General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong Un inspected the new campus in May 2024. The institution was reported to be serving with the new name of Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea (조선로동당 중앙간부학교).[5] The new campus which have a total floor space of over 133 000 square meters was inaugurated on 21 May 2024, while the new school year opening ceremony was held on 1 June 2024.[6] [7]