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In other news: Kim Jong Un sends $2 million in educational funds to Korean children in Japan https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
Kim sent ¥216.6 mln ($2.01 mln) in “educational aid funds & stipends” to Korean children in pro-Pyongyang schools in Japan, said state media today. This marks the 166th such aid sent by a North Korean leader, so far reportedly $452 million over the decades https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
Those schools have for years been locked in a battle with the Japanese state over access to public funds, which Tokyo has withheld due to their links to the North Korean state.
That issue has long been a source of tension between Pyongyang and Tokyo. https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
That issue has long been a source of tension between Pyongyang and Tokyo. https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
For example, DPRK foreign ministry last year: https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1572271489-460567942/exclusion-of-korean-children-from-supporting-system-is-undisguised-hostile-move-towards-dprk-spokesperson-for-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-dprk/?t=1586831221299
Past KCNA reports show that since Kim Jong Un came to power in 2011, a total of ¥1.9 billion ($17.65 million) in funds have been sent to Chongryon-linked schools. This is usually sent around mid-April to mark the Day of the Sun, Kim Il Sung's bday https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
The educational fund for these schools in Japan has been included at the end of the readout of the annual SPA rubber-stamp parliamentary session in April. This year as well. https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
Also: education & Kim's love for children seem to be one of main propaganda lines recent days, especially re: lead-up to Sunday's SPA. (See: Sat. Rodong's page 1 jongron (political essay) on how a fatherly KJU is working hard for the "future generation") https://www.nknews.org/2020/04/kim-jong-un-sends-2-million-in-educational-funds-to-korean-children-in-japan/
