Bella Seo, who fled North Korea when she was a teenager, has given a chilling account of what school life is like in the hermit kingdom, where children are forced to do hard labour.

This school is supposed to prepare North Korean defectors for the real world. But some say it does little to help – and the system needs an overhaul.

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 ...

North Korea was one of the first countries to shut its borders in reaction to the spread of Covid-19 in January 2020, ... a foreign language school and a taekwondo academy. But Pyongyang, ...