In this paper, I tried to analyze nation-state discourses and gender relations represented by N. Korean official knowledge. To do so, I selected 4th grade elementary school textbooks. They are Socialist Moral published in 1972 and, 1995, and Korean in 1987 and 1997. N. Korean Textbooks were not simply gender-neutral in the national metaphor, the construction of a qualified/disqualified national subject and the narrative for the “good” national subject and national history. Rather they were characterized as contradictions and conflicts. For instance, the family metaphor was quite often used to mention the nation-state to signify a quite warm and equal organic unity. Yet it was quite patriarchical since Il-sung Kim exercised an absolute power over the rest of the nation family. The interesting point, however, is that caring was depicted as an excellent quality for the top leader, unlike most Western narratives that see femininity as a threatening force to masculinity. Regarding a qualified national subject, the official knowledge strongly encouraged boys and girls to be aggressive socialist fighters. However many women represented as the qualified national subject was a good mother who devoted herself for her son. Moreover, gender stereotyped representation tends to be stronger in the textbooks published after 1980s than one in 1970s.