article_snippet: Welcome to the parallel universe of North Korea, where some of the hermit kingdom's brightest young minds have a lack of worldly knowledge which would shame a Western primary school student.
article_snippet: Students at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology doing Students at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology mandatory morning exercises .
article_snippet: My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea elite'.
article_snippet: Every piece of material for every lesson had to be submitted and approved for use by a shadowy group known as the 'counterparts' - North Korean staff overseeing the lessons of the foreign teachers who had been brought in.
article_snippet: By journalist Suki Kim's second week the counterparts had approved various games, including trivia contents, spelling competitions and Pictionary.
article_snippet: Eating instant ramen outside the Seventh Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair on a rare outing .
article_snippet: All the students wore lapel pins featuring the face of Kim Il-Sung.
article_snippet: Miss Kim said: 'students loved it.