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.

She said: "Beatings by teachers were an everyday occurrence, to the point that it seemed normal ... one of many common cases of school violence." In North Korea, five years of primary school ...

A news site confirmed that rabbit breeding pens have been set up in schools in North Korea. The country has two mass political organisations that educate young people in socialist ideology and ...