Tag: Students

  • Attempted Defections among NK Studying Abroad Leads to Increased Surveillance

    Attempted Defections among NK Studying Abroad Leads to Increased Surveillance

    “Students abroad have many opportunities to encounter foreign culture, so authorities constantly worry they might defect,” the source noted. “The Ministry of State Security considers these students ‘high-value state assets’ representing significant party investment and is determined to prevent any escapes.”

    “Under the policy changes, state security agents will conduct regular face-to-face interviews with families of students who fled abroad and report their activities,” the source explained. “They plan to strengthen systems to monitor and prevent these families from contacting the outside world.”

    The ministry will also introduce a “mutual indirect evaluation” system conducted monthly for students considered flight risks. These evaluations, submitted twice monthly by other students or embassy staff, will assess the subject’s academic performance, ideological commitment, statements, and behavior.

    The system regularly rotates subjects and evaluators while punishing false reports, creating an evaluation structure that prevents collusion among students.

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  • Record number of NK students coming to Russia from North Korea… Business visits ramping up

    Record number of NK students coming to Russia from North Korea… Business visits ramping up

    Overwhelmingly NKs come to Russia for education 7,887. These are record numbers of North Koreans studying abroad.

    Business numbers are beginning to ramp up with nearly 2000 business visits from NK to Russia. This, however is still far below the 2010’s when there were sustained levels of about 15,000 business visits from NK to Russia, per year.

    https://www.nknews.org/2025/02/north-korean-arrivals-to-russia-mark-12-fold-yearly-increase-in-2024

  • North Korea’s top universities Develop New Connections with Russian Institutions for Student and Teaching Exchanges

    North Korea’s top universities Develop New Connections with Russian Institutions for Student and Teaching Exchanges

    DPRK delegations visited various Russian universities to discuss nuclear science, joint training and student exchanges

    North Korean educators inked multiple deals with universities all across Russia during a recent delegation visit, eyeing student exchanges and engineering technology, including in nuclear science.

    Delegations came from Kim Il Sung University (KISU) led by President Kim Sung Chan and Kim Chaek University of Technology (KCUT) led by President Pak Ji Min.  KCUT officials visited Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI), touring departments related to energy, electrical infrastructure and atomic energy, according to a social media post from the Russian university.  The KISU delegation toured Moscow State University’s (MSU) Chemistry Department and Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and its School of Medicine and Life Sciences, where the two sides discussed prospects for collaboration in medicine and scientific research. The department’s acting chief Sergey Karlov stressed that his university has “all the necessary resources to support joint research and educational programs for North Korean chemistry students,” according to a Telegram post from the Russian University.

    Previously, representatives of Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University traveled to North Korea for Russian language workshops for 110 DPRK instructors in Pyongyang.

    The NK’s General Administration of Civil Aviation also attended an aviation exhibition in Russia. 

    https://www.nknews.org/2025/02/north-koreas-top-universities-forge-new-links-with-russian-institutions/?t=1738677276

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