{"id":43123,"date":"2019-12-10T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43123"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:45:27","slug":"women-samjiyon-work-units-fall-victim-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/women-samjiyon-work-units-fall-victim-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Samjiyon&#8217;s work units fall victim to sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Female members of work units mobilized at the construction sites in Samjiyon, Ryanggang Province, have been victim to severe instances of sexual assault, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA significant number of female workers at the Samjiyon construction site have been sexually assaulted,\u201d said a source to Daily NK on Tuesday. \u201cThe perpetrators are usually men in positions of power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOfficials will say something like, \u2018I\u2019m saying this because you resemble my niece, but come over because I want to share some food with just you to lure the females over, and then sexually assault them in their rooms,\u201d continued the source. \u201cEven the females who initially resisted will lose their will to fight and give up resisting after being sexually assaulted multiple times.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ISOLATED AND VULNERABLE<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In effect, these women, isolated and in menial surroundings, have fallen prey to sexual crimes committed by those in positions of power, sources said. Officials will provide their female victims with exemptions from work, extra food rations and other comforts while sexually violating them, explained sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome of the women who return home after being sexually violated suffer from mental issues,\u201d continued the source. \u201cYou can imagine the feelings of the parents who have to witness their daughters in this state.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42861\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0-\uac74\uc124-\ud604\uc7a5.jpg\" alt=\"Samjiyon construction site\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0-\uac74\uc124-\ud604\uc7a5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0-\uac74\uc124-\ud604\uc7a5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0-\uac74\uc124-\ud604\uc7a5-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0-\uac74\uc124-\ud604\uc7a5-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0-\uac74\uc124-\ud604\uc7a5-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from North Korea&#8217;s modernization initiative in Samjiyon, Ryanggang Province. \/ Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid all this, some females will voluntarily offer sex so as to possibly be guaranteed certain comforts, said sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome of them, particularly those who are young, have to sleep in tent-like structures and starve in the cold while working. They cannot bear it,\u201d said a source. \u201cIn such cases they\u2019ll approach an official with some weight in Samjiyon and offer their bodies in exchange for food or reassignment to a position where the work is a bit easier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the sources expressed sympathy with the women, saying \u201cthey were placed in an impossible situation. It is tragic that some women must make those choices to simply survive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AWARENESS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT REMAINS LOW<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public awareness and criticism of sexual assault in North Korea remains low, sources said. Not only is there a general tendency to downplay sexual assault itself, but North Koreans tend to view the female victims of the assault in an unfavorable light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMost North Koreans assume that women who were in the work units have been sexually assaulted,\u201d said a source. \u201cThere are a significant number of people who say that these women make them uncomfortable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work units, also called \u201cstorm trooper units\u201d in North Korea\u2019s military terminology-laced language, typically work on key national construction projects. Members of these units receive inadequate compensation for the work they do, and are often put to work on dangerous projects without proper equipment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim and edited by Oliver Osuna\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female members of work units mobilized at the construction sites in Samjiyon, Ryanggang Province, have been victim to severe instances of sexual assault, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA significant number of female workers at the Samjiyon construction site have been sexually assaulted,\u201d said a source to Daily NK on Tuesday. \u201cThe perpetrators are usually men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":42520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-43123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-samjiyon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - 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