Tag: mobilizations
N. Korea turns flooding into opportunity for spreading propaganda
North Korean authorities have turned recent flooding into an opportunity for a massive propaganda campaign. Loudspeaker trucks and propaganda teams have been touring affected...
Hoeryong increases cash payments needed to avoid mobilizations
Authorities in Hoeryong have raised cash contributions for households seeking exemption from compulsory work mobilizations in their neighborhood watch units.
Speaking on condition of anonymity,...
What N. Korean farmers could learn from South Korea
Not long ago, I happened to visit a farming village in Icheon, an area in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province. There was a touching beauty...
North Pyongan Province orders a stop to illegal home additions
The North Pyongan Province People's Committee has begun to crack down on people who illegally build additions to their houses to accommodate two families....
Elementary schooler breaks arm while loading garbage truck at school
A third-grade boy at an elementary school in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, got in an accident and broke his arm while being forced to...
N. Korea cracks down on mobilization shirkers to increase labor at...
North Korea has issued general rural mobilization orders with the full-scale start of the planting season, but farms face manpower shortages as people shirk...
N. Korean high schoolers encounter flasher on the way to clean...
Two North Korean high school girls in Hyesan remain traumatized after encountering a male flasher as they headed to clean statues of Kim Il...
Sariwon officials launch crackdown on money changers for avoiding manure campaign
Authorities in the North Hwanghae Province city of Sariwon recently carried out an intensive crackdown on money changers for failing to properly participate in...
Several boys arrested for stealing scrap metal from the ruins of...
Security agents in Kaesong recently arrested several boys who secretly entered the ruins of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office to collect scrap metal.
A source in...
Pyongyangites suffer from a slew of mobilization and collection orders in...
Since the start of the new year, Pyongyang residents have been suffering from a slew of mobilization orders and government-ordered collection quotas, Daily NK...
