School where ties of the past endure

Lucky kids: The children whose parents herd cattle and livestock on the grasslands have the benefit of an education and boarding at the school. — AFP photo

Even after half a century, children from nomadic tribes in the remote Mongolian steppes have benefited from a North Koren-funded boarding institution that continues to educate them.

FOR more than 50 years, children on the windswept steppes of Mongolia have studied in a school built by a surprising benefactor: North Korea.