North Korean pioneers in front of a Kim Il Sung statue in Pyongyang | Image: Eric Lafforgue (Sep. 8, 2008)
South Korea’s education ministry has asked a local publisher to revise an elementary school textbook to refer to North Korean authorities as a “regime” rather than a “government.”
Jihaksa Publishing Co. confirmed to NK News on Thursday that it agreed to a request from the ministry’s textbook advisory committee to use the phrase “establishment of the DPRK regime” in a fifth-grade humanities textbook.
South Korea’s education ministry has asked a local publisher to revise an elementary school textbook to refer to North Korean authorities as a “regime” rather than a “government.”
Jihaksa Publishing Co. confirmed to NK News on Thursday that it agreed to a request from the ministry’s textbook advisory committee to use the phrase “establishment of the DPRK regime” in a fifth-grade humanities textbook.
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Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter.