A foundation hopes to open a university in North Korea in 2009. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology University would be foreign funded, with one major contribution and other donations. The project has been delayed due to severe international tensions.
A Korea-born American who heads Pyongyang's only private university is trying to teach students in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea about market economies, writes Park Ju-Min for China Daily.
A private university in North Korea will probably open this year, despite problems securing funds and persuading professors to come teach in the reclusive state, insist the organizers behind the...