The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) has facilitated the enrolment of female students for the second consecutive year and marginally increased the number of female freshmen in 2016, according to the University’s Chancellor.

PUST welcomed its first 10 female students to the university in early 2015 in time for the North Korean semester beginning in April and has added a further 14 female students during the same corresponding period in 2016.

“On April first this year, we have accepted 14 female students,” Chancellor Park Chan-mo told NK News, adding that they are hoping to continue to increase the number of female students in