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November 06, 2024
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N.Korea to open over 100 vocational high schools: KCNA

North reforms educational curriculum under China's influence, expert says

More than 100 vocational high schools will open for the first time throughout North Korea, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday.

Senior secondary schools in major industrial and agricultural areas, as well as fisheries bases, have been turned into “technical senior secondary schools in accordance with their industrial and geographical conditions,” KCNA said in an English dispatch quoting Kim Song Il, a department director at the Education Commission.

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