Education Ministry Trying to Give South Korean Taxpayers’ Money To North Korea To Help North Korea Print Its Textbooks Better

2019-3-23, Special Economy (Translated from Korean)

As the United States and the United Nations are focusing on sanctions against North Korea due to North Korea’s lack of willingness to denuclearize, the South Korean Ministry of Education is reviewing its support for the modernization of North Korean textbooks. The remarks came out during a meeting with Deputy Minister of Education, Park Baek-bum (박백범), at the meeting of the Special Committee for Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation held by the ruling and opposition parties.

Vice Minister Park said, “at the request of UNESCO Korea Committee and UNESCO North Korea Representative, we are reviewing the modernization support for North Korean textbook printing factory” through an exemption to the UN sanctions. [truncated]

According to the Ministry of Education, the support will not be directly to North Korea, but through the UNESCO headquarters. The items to North Korea to be supported include: △ The latest model of rotary machine and parts △ 200 tons of textbooks papers △ Printing supplies △ the spinning machine operations know-how and management training.

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