Tag: forced labor
North Korea rejects 90% of local party documents in post-congress crackdown
North Korea has launched an unprecedented inspection campaign targeting party documents submitted by local Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) organizations following the Ninth Party...
As overseas deployment fears grow, North Korean parents dread conscription season
A large share of this year's senior high school graduates in North Korea have been classified as conscription candidates this spring, sources say, deepening...
Sinuiju residents bear cost of North Korea’s spring beautification drive
Authorities in Sinuiju, North Pyongan province, are forcing people along thoroughfares and railways to fund and carry out a state beautification campaign at their...
North Korea orders 400 housing units built in North Hamgyong in...
North Korea is pushing a sweeping housing construction drive across the country under the banner of "regional development," and central party officials traveled to...
Trapped in the net: North Korean workers in Chinese seafood factories
Daily NK has released a comprehensive report examining how North Korean workers dispatched to Chinese seafood processing factories are subjected to systematic forced labor,...
Border soldiers forced to replant trees doomed to die
North Korean soldiers guarding the border with China have been mobilized to plant trees ahead of Arbor Day on March 14, but many are...
North Korea’s poorest youth are choosing brutal labor brigades over life...
Young North Koreans facing poverty and an unrelenting burden of workplace levies are volunteering for the country's much-dreaded labor brigades in growing numbers, choosing...
North Korea touts uniform success at Ninth Party Congress, but factory...
North Korea is celebrating the nationwide supply of school uniforms as one of its crowning socialist achievements, but factory workers tasked with producing those...
North Korea’s war on superstition backfires as fortune-telling goes underground
Despite the North Korean authorities' intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand,...
Wonsan’s young workers choose bicycle deliveries over state assignments despite forced...
The Socialist Patriotic Youth League has ordered immediate investigations and forced labor punishments for members skipping assigned work to pursue personal business in Wonsan's...
