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Top North Korean university opens new high-tech wing for consumer goods research

Kim Chaek University of Technology latest to receive sci-tech development center

One of North Korea’s top universities, Kim Chaek University of Technology (KCUT), opened their new Mirae (Future) Sci-Tech Center on Monday to advance the country’s high-tech consumer goods development, state media announced.

In a report on the opening featured on the front page of the party daily Rodong Sinmun on Tuesday, the Mirae Sci-Tech Center was said to house “modern equipment for developing, producing and testing products of up-to-date technology,” and that other facilities include an “international symposium hall, conference room, interview room, etc.”

The opening follows a similar center’s recent establishment at another of the country’s top schools Kim