Tag: mobilization
N. Korean students mobilized for military airfield work
Students at a senior middle school in Taechon county, North Pyongan province, are being mobilized en masse to clear weeds at a nearby Air...
N. Korean students celebrate special meal after unpaid farmwork
Students mobilized to farms in North Pyongan province's Yomju county have returned home after completing rice planting season. Unlike previous years, work team and...
N. Korean workers turn to day labor for quick cash
Day labor markets have boomed across North Korea as farming season drives up demand for workers at collective farms and various agency support farms.
A...
N. Korea’s market tax hikes drive underground commerce
North Korean authorities have drastically hiked market taxes in several regions, driving merchants away from official markets and toward underground commerce.
According to a Daily...
N. Korea sends people to labor camps during rice-planting travel ban
North Korean authorities imposed strict travel controls during last month's rice-planting mobilization, with numerous people sent to labor camps after being caught traveling without...
Grain prices soar in N. Korea as won-dollar rate crosses 24,000
North Korean market prices are soaring again, with both grain prices and foreign exchange rates hitting record highs and driving continued volatility.
According to Daily...
Photo reveals forced wig manufacturing at N. Korean prison
Daily NK has obtained a photo of a work site at a North Korean detention facility where wigs are manufactured under contract. The photo...
Well-connected students use propaganda troupes to dodge N. Korean farm labor
With rice transplanting season underway at farms across North Korea, party committees at Pyongyang universities have been enrolling well-connected students in mobile artistic propaganda...
Dried seafood sales surge as N. Korean families prepare for mobilization...
Demand for food items suitable for packed lunch side dishes has skyrocketed recently in Sinuiju amid construction mobilizations and the start of rice planting...
Hyesan residents bear financial burden of infrastructure repairs
Struggling people in Hyesan are being squeezed by consecutive unofficial taxes for infrastructure repairs while simultaneously being forced to provide labor, intensifying financial hardship...
