Tag: education
North Korea intensifies anti-American indoctrination for middle and high school students
North Korean authorities are significantly expanding anti-American ideological education targeting middle and high school students, ordering the content to be woven into virtually every...
Overburdened North Korea teachers say profession has lost its appeal amid...
Teachers at a middle school in Chongjin have been ordered to produce teaching aids outside their subject areas ahead of a citywide instructional materials...
North Korea threatens to send failing students to coal mines after...
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) launched a sweeping inspection of senior middle schools in 2026 after a new elective subject system...
North Korean students mobilized to farm school land as rations dry...
North Korean students have barely settled into the new school year before being pulled out of class to expand school farmland plots, with parents...
North Korean parents forced to feed laborers renovating schools
North Korean parents in Chongjin are being forced to cover meals, snacks and cigarettes for laborers mobilized to renovate school facilities. The costs fall...
North Korea shifts education costs onto the public with new funding...
North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the...
North Korean elite school student expelled for tutoring during school holiday
A student at an elite provincial school in North Hamgyong province has been forcibly transferred to an ordinary school after a neighbor reported the...
North Korea schools lean on prominent parents as renovation costs mount
North Korean schools in South Pyongan province are pressing parents to fund building repairs and purchase educational materials during March, which authorities have dubbed...
N. Korean students face more ideology sessions as regime tightens grip...
North Korean schools have sharply increased mandatory political study sessions for students at all levels following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of...
Birthday cake trend widens wealth gap among N. Korean schoolchildren
A growing birthday cake trend among North Korean elementary school students is deepening social divides, with children from poorer families being excluded from parties...
