A woman who fled North Korea has revealed what life is like inside the secretive country's hellish schools, explaining how children at school are forced to do hard labour, beaten and made to ...

A young woman who escaped the clutches of North Korea has revealed what life is like for children inside the dictatorship's brutal schools. Bella Seo - who fled the dystopian country when she was ...

may be more familiar with modern luxuries like a school education, coffee, even cell phones (limited to North Korea’s censored intranet) than residents in poorer parts of the country.

In contrast to the open hostility toward the United States, North Korea has been doubling down on English education in its public schools under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, according to North ...