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Korea selects top students to become future managers of economic growth zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently conducted a nationwide selection of outstanding students for transfer into major universities as part of efforts to cultivate experts to run economic growth zones in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With North Korea preparing to reopen as it watches global COVID-19 trends, the country appears to be actively cultivating economic officials to lead economic development zones in each province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Korea told Daily NK on Dec. 21 that the authorities recently conducted a month-long campaign to recruit \u201coutstanding students at light industrial colleges and commercial colleges in Pyongyang and the provinces for transfer into major universities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recruitment drive ended on 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development through trade, an area of particular interest to Kim Jong Un, the president of the State Affairs Commission.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim reportedly approved the effort, emphasizing that the most important thing is to \u201cprepare workers to lead the nation\u2019s new economic development\u201d by \u201cboldly and generously selecting the best talent on a nationwide scale and giving them world-class skills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pyongyang plans to give the students transferred into the universities intensive basic training in economics, management, trade, accounting, law and finance, as well as send them overseas for study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move suggests the authorities intend to reinvigorate the country&#8217;s economic development zones \u2014 the engines driving economic development of the Kim Jong Un era \u2014 by focusing on developing new generation talent to operate and manage economic development zones while dealing with foreign investment companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the top talent was selected, regardless of which school they went to or which year of study they were in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe authorities called on those selected to strive to develop their skills, telling them that the state would take charge of sending them abroad to study, getting them into graduate school and turning them into the economic officials of the future,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source further reported that the selected students are becoming objects of envy \u201cwith rumors going around that the state plans to send them overseas for study.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the past, if you asked kids what they wanted to be, they said artists, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">donju 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