North Korea closes universities

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Numble, I applaud all the effort, but I wonder why you try when posters here refuse to view it objectively...even after doing some good digging...

I don't like the DPRK anymore than anyone else, but are you guys really believing something this stupid 'because NK is crazy'.
 
I assume they only allow foreign students from autocratic countries, I can't imagine North Korea would allow foreigners from more democratic countries to give North Koreans crazy ideas.

Of course North Korea would close down universities in the name of celebrations. Nothing gets in the way of celebrating the glorious rule of Dear Leader!
 
When I was in Cambodia, I saw a bunch of North Korean Friendship Association signs around places.

Also lol at University of Printing Engineering.
 
there are forgein students at north korean universities?

Did the fall back schools really not work out at all?
 
Oh good, I was waiting for a NK thread, last week associated press signed a deal with the NK news agency to open a news office in Pyongyang, so we should get way more news coming out of NK than we had before.

Anyway, "mobilisation" is pretty normal, but for a year?? I can't see how they can mix them in with the commoners for such a long period, considering the conditions outside of the privileged institutions like universities. These are the people with most access (legitimately or otherwise) to the outside world and a long stint away from their comfy day-to-day surely won't sit that well. With a bit of luck it might be the impetus the people need.

Long shot I know.
 
I was also shocked that they have foreign students. I didn't even know they allowed foreigners to come in and study (or work, or whatever else). Just getting permission to be a tourist for a few days seems like a massive pain in the ass.
 
scotcheggz said:
Oh good, I was waiting for a NK thread, last week associated press signed a deal with the NK news agency to open a news office in Pyongyang, so we should get way more news coming out of NK than we had before.
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What, KCNA not good enough?
July 4. 2011 Juch 100

Shaved Ice Enjoys Popularity in Summer

Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- Shaved ice stalls in streets of Pyongyang attract many passers-by in summer days.

They serve shaved ice with boiled red bean, tomato, strawberry and other fruit juice.

Some people take shaved ice along with Eskimo pie and bread.

Kim Sun Hui, a 56-year-old woman living in Taedonggang District, told KCNA that shaved ice is the best to take outdoors in sultry days and that she favors shaved ice with boiled red bean.

Shaved ice stalls add to the summer view of streets in Pyongyang.
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I also like this other article published today, "Worthwhile Life under Care of Great Leader".
Kamnamu (persimmon) company is well known as a women's coast artillery company always remembered by Kim Jong Il.

In February, Juche 84 (1995) he visited the company despite the strong sea wind. He showed fatherly loving care for company commander Choe Myong Ok, company political instructor Ri Yong Wol and all other women soldiers of the company.

His field guidance produced such a moving story as "Coast Artillerywomen and Medicated Cream".
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
 
Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- Shaved ice stalls in streets of Pyongyang attract many passers-by in summer days.

They serve shaved ice with boiled red bean, tomato, strawberry and other fruit juice.
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Also crazy popular in SK, I thought ?
 
If Best Korea wasn't the shittiest country in the world, as a tourist I would be fascinated to go and experience the novelty of the shittiest country in the world. Wait, what.
 
Ignis Fatuus said:
If Best Korea wasn't the shittiest country in the world, as a tourist I would be fascinated to go and experience the novelty of the shittiest country in the world. Wait, what.
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I dunno... Liberia and Somalia are pretty bad.
 
Steelrain said:
Uh...this is fairly obvious propaganda. GAF is weird sometimes.
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Not sure if serious?

LaserBuddha said:
I dunno... Liberia and Somalia are pretty bad.
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At least Somalia doesn't really have a government. North Korea has a government that will actively make your life shittier.
 
While I feel bad for the students, its not like not learning that North Korea is the only thing of relevance in the world will hurt them at all. Most of the stuff the learn is soooooooo biased in the most obscure way that it makes no sense. I wouldnt be surprised if their math program teaches the their great leader invented it.

Thats assuming their Unis are like everything else in the country.

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Foreign students? People pay to go to North Korean Universities?



W T F
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This was my first response after reading the article.
 
Now there will be many creepy drawings of university students happily building concrete houses while talking about how much they love their lives and how much they love their leader.
 
Adam Blade said:
There has been no mention of the mobilisation in the domestic media. Japan's Kyodo news agency has reported that all universities, except for graduating seniors and foreign students, had to cancel classes until next year.
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what foreign students go to n. korea for university?
 
Graffiti denouncing Kim Jong Il has allegedly been found on a wall in Pyongyang, causing the authorities to launch a crackdown to uncover the culprit.

According to one Chinese-Korean trader working between the North Korean capital and Dandong, China, “Graffiti denouncing Kim Jong Il was found on the wall of Pyongyang Railroad College on the 24th; the inspections and regulations are phenomenal. Nobody can come or go from Pyongyang.”

The graffiti apparently stated, “Park Chung Hee and Kim Jong Il are both dictators; Park Chung Hee a dictator who developed his country’s economy, Kim Jong Il a dictator who starved people to death.” One syllable was a man's head and was written on a red brick wall in white chalk, making it quite striking.


“In order to catch the culprit, regulations and inspections targeting visitors to Pyongyang as well as the city’s citizens went on for three days, until the morning of the 27th,” the source said. “They wouldn’t even sell train tickets, so my schedule got pushed back. One person visiting his son in the military in Pyongyang was not able to get home.”

Pyongyang Railroad College is in Hadang 1-dong in Hyeongjesan-district, a place with no streetlights with the exception of above the college main gate. The neighborhood is also within the scope of the 100,000-home construction project, so buildings in the area have been destroyed and pedestrians are rarely seen. It would have been easier than in some other places to leave graffiti.

According to the trader, the authorities launched the search for the person responsible via a joint investigation team including the National Security Agency and People’s Safety Ministry, specifically targeting students and people from other provinces. They established road blocks on the roads linking Pyongyang Station and West Pyongyang Station, Pyongyang-Pyongsung, Pyongyang-Wonsan and Pyongyang-Kanri, then began questioning all passers’ by.

Reporting the latest, he said, “The investigation unit has now narrowed down the investigation to the Railroad College’s own students, and has blocked the movement of people between provinces in order to stop the spread of rumors. It seems they are dealing with it severely since it happened in Pyongyang not in the provinces.”

Despite the authorities’ efforts to block the spread of the news, people as far away as Pyongsung and even North Hamkyung Province know about it, the source said.
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