The communist country is a new destination for younger generations exposed to propaganda and brainwashing.

Approximately 250 schoolchildren from various Russian regions spent a vacation in the Sondovon youth camp in North Korea from 22 July to 2 August. A Telegram post by the administration of Primorsky Krai said the group included children from Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Lipetsk, and Orenburg regions, as well as Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnodar area.

The visit is part of an understanding reached between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang this year.

The guests took part in sailing courses, taekwondo training, drawing contests along with local children.

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Sondovon is located on the Sea of Japan coast and surrounded by pine forests, the post specified.

Russia and North Korea have drawn closer amid the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un have exchanged visits and agreed on the supply of North Korean ammunition in exchange for Russian oil and technology.

Fragments of North Korean-made missiles, used by Russian forces to shell cities, have begun appearing in Ukraine. Russia has started supplying oil to North Korea, despite UN sanctions against Pyongyang, which Moscow had signed up for earlier.

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In Russia, schoolchildren are heavily brainwashed in connection with the war in Ukraine and Kremlin policies. The academic curricula and books have been rewritten lately to underline the denial of Ukrainians’ identity, to justify the crimes of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and to whitewash Russia’s turbulent past.

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