Kim gets honorary doctorate in economics
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A Malaysian university faced public criticism yesterday for awarding an honorary doctorate in economics to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose country is among the poorest in the world.
The privately run HELP University said a “simple ceremony” to mark the conferment was held in early October at the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. The North Korean ambassador to Malaysia accepted the honor on Kim’s behalf.
The event was reported briefly by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. It attracted criticism on social networks in Malaysia this week after the US-based Foreign Policy magazine posted a blog article that expressed surprise about the decision.
KCNA quoted the university president as saying that Kim “makes untiring efforts for the education of the country and the well-being of its people.”
North Korea suffers chronic food shortages and has not released economic data for decades.
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