Tag: forced labor
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...
S. Korea’s plan to scrap N. Korean human rights center risks...
A report recently emerged that the government is considering a plan to essentially scrap the establishment of the National Center for North Korean Human...
Hyesan crackdown sends currency traders to labor camps as regime tightens...
North Korean police in the city of Hyesan, Ryanggang province, have recently orchestrated a clampdown on money changers who trade foreign currency on the...
Pyongyang enacts sweeping transportation controls that violate international human rights standards
Daily NK has reviewed the full text of North Korea's Railroad Passenger Transportation Act, which was enacted in May. The law prohibits North Koreans...
