At the Kumsong school around 12 students were in each of the three classrooms shown to foreign journalists. Each desk had a computer made in Taiwan, running Microsoft operating systems. The boys - no girls were seen - study English for two hours each day and spend hours honing computer skills and developing their own programs.

North Korea nurturing nerds - Technology - smh.com.au

This is a fascinating article on the state of the internet--mostly restricted to a state-controlled intranet--in North Korea. Kim Jong Il makes the censorship in China look like anarchy.

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