{"id":56682,"date":"2023-11-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=56682"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T05:07:19","slug":"facing-uncertain-future-n-korean-high-schooler-takes-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/facing-uncertain-future-n-korean-high-schooler-takes-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing uncertain future, N. Korean high schooler takes own life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A high school student at a Pyongyang recently leaped to his death from a high-rise building, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a source in Pyongyang told Daily NK on Nov. 13 that the high school student \u201chad hoped to go a teacher\u2019s college, but leaped to his death from a high-rise building in Kwangbok-dong, Mangyong District, because his family faced financial difficulties and was placed on a military recruitment list.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neighbors who discovered the student\u2019s body as they were passing by immediately informed the police, but it took an hour for them to arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the meantime, crowds gathered around the body, witnessing the horrible sight of the corpse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOfficers from the Kwangbok-dong police box and Mangyongdae District branch of the Ministry of Social Security arrived an hour after the initial report. Taking charge of the scene, they began stopping people from using their mobile phones, but finding it difficult to monitor each and every phone, they confiscated everyone\u2019s mobile phone and put them in a bag, telling the owners that they would return them in two days,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The police investigated whether the phones&#8217; owners took photos at the scene or called anybody while there, apparently to stop rumors from spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police also questioned the dead student\u2019s parents, teachers and friends to get a full account of what happened. The investigation eventually concluded that the student took his own life due to pessimism over his personal circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on the police investigation, the student studied so hard that he frequently placed first or second in his class. Investigators also found that he wanted to enter a teacher\u2019s college.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the student\u2019s parents had already asked his teacher to place him on the military recruitment list, explaining that they could not support their son if he went to university because they were strapped financially. In fact, during a counseling session, school administrators explained to the student that he had been placed on next year\u2019s military draft list because his family faced financial issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the counseling session, the student often spoke pessimistically about his circumstances, telling his friends: \u201cI can\u2019t go to university, even if I study well, and I can\u2019t become a teacher like I want to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in late October, he unleashed on his parents, telling them that &#8220;we live like beggars and there&#8217;s no point in living in Pyongyang when I can\u2019t go to college.\u201d When his father slapped him, he went to the roof of a high-rise building in anger and leaped off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNeighbors have expressed sadness over the incident, saying that there are many households who can\u2019t put a single meal on the table even in Pyongyang, and that the tragedy involved a good student who took his own life due to poverty, given that the gap between rich and poor is akin to the gap between heaven and earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20231113-2\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high school student at a Pyongyang recently leaped to his death from a high-rise building, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a source in Pyongyang told Daily NK on Nov. 13 that the high school student \u201chad hoped to go a teacher\u2019s college, but leaped to his death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":44107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[274,703,710,729,1656],"class_list":["post-56682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-pyongyang","tag-education","tag-food-shortages","tag-students","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Facing uncertain future, N. 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