Posted on May 28, 2014 |
Children consume propaganda from birth. The Juche ideology and the leaders Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-un are the spirits of the country and their ideas are sacrosanct. Children learn to hate American and Japanese. They receive free education of four years of elementary school and seven years of middle school, a tour guide said. After two exams, only the top 30 percent can get into a university, another tour guide added. All schools are funded by the government. The three aims of education: knowledge, morality and physical well-being.
by Viola Zhou
Children play at a school on the Chongsan-ri Cooperative Farm.
by Joanna Wong
Three North Korean boys enter the Pyongyang Skate Park.
by Alice Wan
Kids play roadside in Pyongyang.
by Kyle Sun
Students with cleaning supplies walk along a street in Pyongyang. Red scraves are part of the school uniforms.
by Kyle Sun
North Koreans wash clothes roadside in Kaesong, a city near the border with South Korea.
by Yupina Ng
A bass guitar player performs for tourists at the June 9th Middle School in Pyongyang.
by Alice Wan
Children learn about former leader Kim Jong Il in a classroom on the Chongsan-ri Cooperative Farm outside of Pyongyang. Education in North Korea is compulsory for 12 years, though reports have said the system is still in ruins since the famine in the 1990s.
by Joanna Wong
Children play on the playground of a school at the Chongsan-ri Cooperative Farm outside of Pyongyang.
by Viola Zhou
Children play on a school playground at the Chongsan-ri Cooperative Farm. Military elements are everywhere at the school including paintings of children in military uniform holding guns and murals of Americans and Japanese being stabbed.
by Shan Shan Kao
Former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's protraits are on most buildings.
by Shan Shan Kao
Four years of primary school is part of the free education provided by the government.
by Shan Shan Kao
Citizens receive state funded schooling by the government.
by Shan Shan Kao
Leader worship education starts early- children sing to praise Kim Jong-un at a school on the Chongsan-ri Cooperative Farm.
by Shan Shan Kao
English is the foreign language for 80% of the secondary schools, others learn Russian. Manderin or Japanese is learnt in universities as the second foreign language.
by Shan Shan Kao
Students performance at June 9th Middle School, Pyongyang.
by Shan Shan Kao
Only children who were born in Pyongyang are allowed to live there, otherwise they must receive an offer from a university in Pyongyang or have a special contribution.
by Shan Shan Kao
A woman and child squat outside Ryugyong Skate Park in Pyongyang.
by Shan Shan Kao
A child Rollerblades kid an inline Skate Park next to the Ryugyong Health Complex in Pyongyang.
