North Korean schools now teach Russian as a compulsory subject

Russian has been compulsory in schools in the DPRK since the 4th grade. This was announced on November 27 by Alexander Kozlov, head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and co-chairman of the intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation between the Russian Federation and the DPRK.

"I know that Russian has been introduced in schools in the DPRK as a compulsory language for learning from the 4th grade. Currently, more than three thousand schoolchildren study Korean in Russia. Most of them study Korean as a second or third foreign language," TASS quoted him as saying.

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