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Education in North Korea is free and mandatory until secondary school. The curriculum focuses heavily on subjects like Korean language as well as political indoctrination about the Kim family, with over 8% of instruction devoted to them. While North Korea claims a 100% literacy rate, this is likely exaggerated. Starting in kindergarten, students learn to revere the Kim family as gods, and education serves largely as propaganda to legitimize the regime and teach distorted history portraying North Korean grea
- Author
- Sofia Butnaru
- Language
- EN