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 Kristo from Estonia asks:

In the USSR, behind the Iron Curtain, foreign language studies in universities were prestigious for variety of reasons. How accessible are foreign language studies to students in NK, either academically or self-taught? What languages do they have access to and what are the popular ones?”

Studying a foreign language might have been a prestigious thing in the USSR but it is compulsory for everyone in North Korea to study one from