The Daily NK sees North Korea’s concern for their disabled as “half-truth” propaganda used for to acquire foreign currency, despite recent announcements of greater investment into welfare for the disabled.

The pro-North General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) recently announced in the Chosun Sinbo that the North is constructing a Braille Information Technology Center, a publisher and university catering solely to the blind, along with a national facility connecting three schools for the blind in Pyongyang, Hannam and Hwangnam.

Katharina Zellweger, a visiting scholar from Stanford University, wrote in People with Disabilities in a Changing North Koreathat,