North Korea has instituted mandatory Russian language study in schools starting from the age of ten, announced on Thursday the Russian co-chair of the intergovernmental Russia-North Korea commission, Alexander Kozlov, reports the EFE agency, according to Agerpres.
“The Russian language has been included in the school curriculum of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a mandatory language starting from the fourth grade,” explained the Russian official, who is also the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, during the intergovernmental commission meeting, which took place in Moscow.
A higher education center specialized in the Russian language is opening in North Korea
He added that next year a higher education center specialized in the Russian language will start operating in North Korea, within a pedagogical university in Pyongyang.
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