Every week we ask a North Korean your questions, giving you the chance to learn more about the country we know so little about.

This week Maalavika from Chennai, India asks:

Does North Korea allow any students to study abroad? Maybe some of the children of elites?

For most people the answer is a short one: No.

North Koreans cannot go to other countries to study if they want to. Ordinary people in North Korea don’t even know that people in other countries can freely choose to study abroad when they want to. They don’t even know the expression “study