Mangyongdae Revolutionary School
| Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School | |
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| Location | |
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Pyongyang DPRK |
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| Coordinates | 38°59′54″N 125°39′43″E / 38.99833°N 125.66194°ECoordinates: 38°59′54″N 125°39′43″E / 38.99833°N 125.66194°E |
| Information | |
| Type | military high school |
| Established | 1947 |
| Founder | Kim Il-sung |
| School district | Mangyongdae district |
| Administrator | Lt. Col. Kim Hak Bin |
| Teaching staff | Ri Kyong Hui |
| male | male |
| National ranking | elite |
| Affiliation | Kang Pan-sok Revolutionary School in the western city of Nampho |
Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School is an elite school in Mangyongdae district, Pyongyang, North Korea. Established in 1947, it is a special education school with access only to the children of war dead, Party, military, administrative and high-ranking officials’ families. Originally, the school was called the Magyongdae School for the Bereaved Children of Revolutionaries, 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 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[update], Lt. Col. Kim Hak Bin is an administrator at the school. Ri Kyong Hui is 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 the regime among students at the ultra-elite Mangyongdae School.".
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 the parent's of a child were still alive, then only children of officials at least at the level of party department head were eligible to enroll.
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[update], the all girls version of this school is at the Kang Pan-sok Revolutionary School in the western city of Nampho.
Kim Jong-un is not an alunnus of this school.
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