Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School is an elite school in Mangyongdae district of Pyongyang, North Korea . Established in 1947, it is a special education school with access only to the Workers' Party of Korea , Korean People's Army , administrative and high-ranking officials’ families. As of 2012, Mankyongdae School was one of three schools, alongside the Kang Ban-sok Institute and Namsan Senior High School , which serve families with very high Songbun rankings. No wavering or hostile class children and very few children of high songbun, outside of the three “lines”, are allowed to attend these schools, and special schools like these do not exist outside of Pyongyang.
7-544: Originally, the school was called the Pyongyang School for the Bereaved Children of Revolutionaries (평양혁명자유가족학원), which was to "receive children of fallen revolutionaries" and "educate their children and train them into fine revolutionaries after the independence of Korea". It was located at Kan-ri, Daedong, South Pyongan. After the formal establishment of North Korea it was moved to Pyongyang and there
14-569: Is also used for combat related casualties which occur after medical evacuation. PKIA means presumed killed in action . This term is used when personnel are lost in battle, initially listed missing in action (MIA), but after not being found, are later presumed to have not survived. This is typical of naval battles or engagements on other hostile environments where recovering bodies is difficult. A very large number of soldiers killed in action went unidentified in World War I , like John Kipling ,
21-436: The first statue of Kim Il Sung was erected, according to North Korean authorities, at the suggestion of Kim Jong-suk, Kim Il-sung's wife. As of April 2012, Lt. Col. Kim Hak Bin was an administrator at the school. Ri Kyong Hui was a biology teacher. At one time, Kim Won-ju , who was Kim Hyong-rok 's third son, was assigned the position as State Security Department officer whose assignments included rooting out disloyalty to
28-413: The midst of combat, but not from incidents such as accidental vehicle crashes, murder or other non-hostile events or terrorism . KIA can be applied both to front-line combat troops and to naval, air and support troops. Furthermore, the term died of wounds ( DOW ) is used to denote personnel who reached a medical treatment facility before dying. The category died of wounds received in action ( DWRIA )
35-404: The most recent being in 2022 where he attended the school's 75th anniversary. In addition to a high school curriculum, students receive military training. Graduates enter the army for three years and usually become party members. Generally, about 120 students graduate per year. According to Kang Myong-do, "children of the elite, who in the past would have gone to Namsan now went to Mangyongdae." If
42-601: The parents of a child were still alive, then only children of officials at least at the level of party department head were eligible to enroll. Killed in action Killed in action ( KIA ) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. The United States Department of Defense , for example, says that those declared KIA did not need to have fired their weapons, but only to have been killed due to hostile attack. KIAs include those killed by friendly fire in
49-627: The regime among students at the ultra-elite Mangyongdae School. In 1982, O Guk-ryol, the then chief of the armed forces staff, said the school produced revolutionary warriors. By 1987, graduates were: As of April 2013, the all girls version of this school is at the Kang Pan-sok Revolutionary School in the western city of Nampho . Kim Jong Un , who was educated in Switzerland, is not an alumnus of this school and has visited this school six times as of July 2018,
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