Yu-Taik Chon, executive vice president of Pyongyang University of Science & Technology, speaks at a meeting with Texas A&M University seeking academic cooperation in College Station,Texas, U.S., January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Jon Herskovitz
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Reuters) - The leaders of the only private university in North Korea asked Texas A&M University, known for its agricultural economics and public health programs, for help on Monday in teaching subjects such as how to grow food in a land of chronic shortages.
The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) was founded by evangelical Christians and opened in 2010, with students generally the children of the country's elite. The PUST delegation said the requested help is not about politics but about using academics for humanitarian ideals.
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