North Korea's Kim Il Sung University "Information Technology Institute is the center of North Korea's AI research and development"

North Korea's Kim Il Sung University is reportedly focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) research and education, among other IT fields.

According to North Korean sources, Kim Il Sung University introduces the Institute of Information Technology on its website as "currently developing into a representative information technology product development and production unit, a base for training information technology experts, an artificial intelligence research and development center leading the creation of the artificial intelligence industry, and an exemplary enterprise in the information industry sector integrating scientific research and production.

Kim Il Sung University itself says that the Institute of Information Technology is the center for research and development of artificial intelligence and promotes the creation of the artificial intelligence industry. 

The university said that the institute's basic mission is to research, develop products and introduce information technology, with core information technology forming the backbone of high-tech industries.

It consists of six development rooms (Room 1, Room 2, Room 3, Room 4, Room 5 and Room 6) and one information technology service room.

The Institute develops and introduces information technology products that are competitive in Korea with direct information service technology (software production management, R&D enterprise management, direct testing, integrated search, and direct geographic information service), real-time multimedia communication technology (video conferencing), anti-virus security technology, vulnerability analysis technology, and artificial intelligence technology (face recognition, voice recognition, license plate recognition, video search, medical image analysis, and natural language processing) as core technologies.

Kim Il-sung University has also reportedly strengthened its AI program in education. The university has strengthened its AI department in the School of Information Science, the university's IT department.

The department is said to be developing advanced programs and training information science experts who can design and develop operating system programs, artificial intelligence programs and application programs.

Established in August 1977, the Department of Automated Chemistry was renamed the Department of Computer Science in 1997 and upgraded to a college, the College of Computer Science, in September 1999. The College of Computer Science was renamed the College of Information Science in 2016, and has been called the College of Information Science since October 2019.

According to Kim Il Sung University, the College of Information Science has three research institutes (Institute of Intelligent Science, Institute of Internet of Things (IoT) Technology, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence Technology) and four courses (Information Security Course, Information and Communication Course, Computer Education Support Program Course, and Software Engineering Course).

The Institute of Intelligent Science has four laboratories: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Visual Information Processing Laboratory, Language Information Processing Laboratory, and Speech Information Processing Laboratory.

The Institute of Internet of Things has three laboratories: Big Data Application Laboratory, Cloud Computing Laboratory, and Embedded Systems Laboratory. The Institute of Artificial Intelligence Technology has eight laboratories.

The departments include the Department of Information Science, the Department of Information and Communication, the Department of Artificial Intelligence, and the Department of Programming. Courses include artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, image information processing, and speech information processing.

According to North Korean sources, Kim Il Sung University requires undergraduate students to take artificial intelligence as a required course.

According to the university, the Department of Information Science has more than 300 faculty members and researchers, including three candidates and 40 Ph.D.s, with more than 60 holding professorships and associate professorships. There are more than 1,300 undergraduate students.

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