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It is inevitable that the release of the two American citizens will be utilized in the name of tedious “education” for the North Korean people. Whenever an important issue arises, the North Korean authorities employ “propaganda education projects” to convey poli..
[2009-08-07 17:49] |
| During the March of Tribulation, from 1994 through the start of 1998, the birth rate plummeted. Such a situation continues to affect North Korean education even today. According to a source from North Hamkyung Province, “There are many empty classes in middle schoo..
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the North Korean authorities proclaimed that a household should have just one or two children. However, since the late 1980s, they have been trying to encourage childbirth, because a decreasing labor force has emerged as a signif..
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As the Kim Jong Il period started in the 1980s, students became subject to many more kinds of unwelcome social mobilization. For example, students were made to carry water from local rivers in order to build a skating rink every winter, and to take part in the con..
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North Korean people have been hit by a double whammy, and there is no exception for kids. Not only is the economic status of the people dire, but they are ruthlessly exploited by the state to boot.Exploitation of child labor began under the pretext of “Doing good t..
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Since the devastation wrought by the March of Tribulation in the late 1990s, education in North Korea has been firmly on the back burner. When state food distribution ceased, teachers either could not go to school or simply handed in their resignations, while sta..
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In May, 1990, Kim Jong Il was appointed First Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Commission, and in December of the following year became the supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army. Through this process, Kim grasped supreme command of the Military and the..
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The birth of education for the gifted generated a new social trend which placed great value on science. First senior middle schools grew out of that trend.In first senior middle schools, students are educated in the natural sciences using high quality text books pr..
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Kim Il Sung took a trip around Eastern Europe from May 17 to July 1, 1984. Whenever he landed in a new country, he asked local children, who usually offered him a welcoming bouquet, “What is the hope for the future?”The answers were invariably the same, “scientis..
[2009-07-15 15:08] |
| The Chosun (North Korean) Workers’ Party controls and restricts all types of people: from party members to non-members, from the upper-class to the proletariat.As the Party rules over the state, it coerces people to follow not the socialist constitution of the DPR..
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