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In 2012, leader Kim Jong Un advocated that North Korea should expand its compulsory education from 11 years to 12 years. According to the state Korean Central News Agency, a bill to expand its compulsory education was passed in September 2012. Prior to this reform, North Korea had eleven years of free education system which consisted of one ...
Kim Jong Un [d] (born 8 January 1982, 1983 or 1984) [b] is a North Korean politician and dictator who has been the third Supreme Leader of North Korea since December 2011 and general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012.
And in response to the Chanyang-hoe (Chanyang Association) and their emphasis on education for women, in 1908, the government established the first public girls' school called Hansong Girls' High School. [8] During the Japanese colonial period, 1910–1945, Korean women experienced some social changes much like women did in the Western world ...
Key regime spokeswoman Kim Yo Jong was spotted with two youngsters -- a boy and a girl -- while attending North Korea's New Year art performance. She was seen holding the boy's hand as the three ...
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (right) shakes hands with Kim Yo-Jong (middle), North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's sister, in 2018. - Handout/South Korean Presidential Blue House/Getty Images
The Kippumjo (Korean: 기쁨조; translated as Pleasure Squad, Pleasure Brigade, or Pleasure Group), sometimes spelled Kippeumjo (also Gippumjo or Gippeumjo), is an unconfirmed collection of groups of approximately 2,000 women and girls reportedly maintained by the leader of North Korea for the purpose of providing entertainment, including that of a sexual nature, for high-ranking Workers ...
The Moranbong Band, an all-girl group that was reportedly hand-picked by Kim in 2012, may be performing at the Winter Olympics. Kim Jong Un's favorite girl group could perform at the Winter ...
Ri Sol-ju (Korean: 리설주; born c. 1985–1989) [2] [3] [4] is the current First Lady of North Korea as the wife of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. [5]Little is known about her from official North Korean sources, but outside sources have speculated more about her background.