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North Korea: Nation at School
Berger, Roland | May 17, 1965 issue

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During the war, 90 per cent of the schools and other educational institutions of North Korea were destroyed. Students were drafted for military service; education was conducted underground or in remote parts of the country. It was not until the Armistice agreement of July 1953, which a start could be made to reconstruct the educational system. Today, school and study are the watchwords wherever you go, whether in town or country, in factory or on cooperative farm. If not the key to North Korea's extraordinary recovery from the scorched earth of only eleven years ago, education and training have certainly been a major factor in a rate of growth that professor Joan Robinson has referred to as an economic miracle.

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EDUCATION; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; ARMED Forces -- Vocational guidance; COOPERATIVE societies; KOREA (North)
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