Tag: education
N. Korean teachers skip mandatory indoctrination sessions, face public criticism
North Korean authorities have emphasized the importance of ideological indoctrination for youth, the future generation, but on the educational front lines, ideological education for...
N. Korean students mobilized for military airfield work
Students at a senior middle school in Taechon county, North Pyongan province, are being mobilized en masse to clear weeds at a nearby Air...
N. Korea targets farm corruption as legal violations surge
The justice department of Ryanggang province's people committee has launched intensive inspections of farms throughout the province. While officials claim their goal is to...
Pyongyang police crackdown on teen mobile payments
Police in Pyongyang have started an emergency crackdown after discovering that high school students in the capital's central districts made over 150 mobile payments...
N. Korean teachers crack under pressure over student attendance
North Korean teachers are dealing with mounting stress as schools hold them responsible for poor student attendance rates.
According to a source in South Hamgyong...
N. Korean vendors cash in on Children’s Day celebrations
North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported on June 2 that joyous celebrations were held nationwide to mark International Children's Day the day before.
Food vendors...
N. Korean students celebrate special meal after unpaid farmwork
Students mobilized to farms in North Pyongan province's Yomju county have returned home after completing rice planting season. Unlike previous years, work team and...
N. Korea investigates officer after student self-harm at event
The North Korean military is investigating a case of self-harm by a student at a revolutionary school who attended a major event in Pyongyang,...
N. Korea reaffirms ‘ultra-hardline’ US strategy to prosecutors
The prosecutor's office in North Pyongan province recently held a lecture on domestic and international politics that reemphasized the "ultra-hardline response strategy to the...
N. Korea orders anti-US propaganda blitz targeting youth
North Korean authorities have ordered intensified anti-American and anti-South Korean propaganda activities during the "anti-U.S. joint struggle month" from June 25 to July 27,...
