Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s first institution of higher learning, has a new website.
Located at www.ryongnamsand.edu.kp/univ, the web page contains information on the university’s facilities and individual departments, from its medical college to its foreign languages and literature faculty to electronics and automation. There is a historical overview of the university’s mission, starting with the decision to found the school in 1946, just one year after the Korean Peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
There is also a page listed for the university’s “renowned professors
Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s first institution of higher learning, has a new website.
Located at www.ryongnamsand.edu.kp/univ, the web page contains information on the university’s facilities and individual departments, from its medical college to its foreign languages and literature faculty to electronics and automation. There is a historical overview of the university’s mission, starting with the decision to found the school in 1946, just one year after the Korean Peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
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Rob York is director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. He previously worked as a production editor for The South China Morning Post and chief editor of NK News. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Korean history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.