Tag: quotas
North Korea’s fish farms struggle to survive as state demands results...
Fish farms across North Korea are preparing for the spring fingerling release season, but soaring feed costs and mounting maintenance expenses are pushing facilities...
Overburdened North Korea teachers say profession has lost its appeal amid...
Teachers at a middle school in Chongjin have been ordered to produce teaching aids outside their subject areas ahead of a citywide instructional materials...
North Korea’s forest officers now feared more than police amid reforestation...
Forest supervision officers in North Korea have sharply intensified enforcement activity in April as authorities push forward with the country's second-phase reforestation drive, with...
North Korea’s self-reliance push costs factory worker a finger
A technician at a coal mining machinery factory in Chongjin lost a finger recently while attempting to produce insulating paper using scrap lumber, an...
N. Korean trade officials face political pressure to boost performance
North Korean authorities have gathered Pyongyang's trade officials to pressure them into raising state quotas for the second half of the year. This was...
Spring hunger forces N. Korean rural families to borrow grain at...
The number of "food-poor families" has recently grown as North Korea's spring hunger season intensifies, worsening the already severe seasonal food shortages.
"The number of...
N. Korea’s ‘Arbor Day paradox’: How tree-planting initiatives are destroying forests
North Korea promoted nationwide tree-planting initiatives for Arbor Day (March 14) as part of a reforestation campaign. However, these efforts damaged forests as people...
N. Korean students’ vacation spent hauling manure as ‘patriotic duty’
North Korean university students are spending their month-long vacation hauling manure to farms. While authorities tout this as a "manifestation of patriotism," students have...
N. Korea pays farm workers in devalued currency instead of grain
North Korea has taken an unprecedented step: paying farm workers in devalued local currency instead of their usual share of crops.
A source in North...
Fear grips currency earning sites as inspectors begin sweeping probe
State security agents launched a probe of foreign currency earning centers in North Pyongan province on Nov. 4, sparking anxiety among workers there.
While these...
