Talk:Demographics of North Korea/Archive 1
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Literacy
Are these figures considered accurate among academics and serious researchers? --Dpr 04:32, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
This caught my eye as well. It would seem like the UNDP has a policy of nation self reporting statistics to them? I'm going to do some research and see if I can find any support for the durrent numbers. -LouieS 17:48, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
- It takes a speaker of Korean 2-4 hours to learn the alphabet. It takes a foreigner perhaps a day. Illiteracy is not an issue.
IIRC, my university's KS professor (not a Korean) mentioned a tradition of very high literacy in both Koreas without expressing such doubts. I think he gave a percentage of 90% or more. 00:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Check the CIA factbook - the data is very similar.
- Literacy has been, since the start of North Korea, a massive priority in order to empower, mobilize, and propagandaize to the poor. The government made enourmous strides to wipe out illiteracy. The figures match that of the south and other nations according to the CIA factbook which does not simply use government figures. The notion that North Korea is a nation with a literacy issue is without merit and sadly a wrong impression that stems from anti north korean sentiment in the US. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Icactus (talk • contribs) 16:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC).