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Korea moves forward with military recruitment for next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea\u2019s military is rushing to identify potential recruits for next year as a part of efforts to fight draft dodging, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK sources reported that the authorities have already begun creating lists of potential recruits from among students who are currently in their fifth year of high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe authorities typically begin identifying recruits for next year once the enlistment process is over in March or April,\u201d a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on Apr. 13. \u201cDespite the state of emergency due to the pandemic, the authorities are nonetheless moving forward with identifying next year\u2019s recruits.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High school teachers reportedly visited the homes of students from Mar. 9 to Mar. 18 as part of efforts to identify potential recruits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause of the pandemic, teachers contacted the students first to make it sure it would be ok to visit them and inform them about their enlistment in the military. Students signed a written statement saying that they agreed to move forward with the recruitment process,\u201d one source told Daily NK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government\u2019s move to quickly identify potential recruits for next year is likely aimed at trying to prevent students from avoiding military service, Daily NK sources said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%82%98%EB%8F%84-%E5%8C%97-%EA%B5%B0%EC%9E%85%EB%8C%80-%EC%82%AC%EC%97%85%EC%9D%80-%EB%AA%BB%EB%A7%90%EB%A0%A4-3%EC%9B%94%EB%B6%80%ED%84%B0-%EB%82%B4%EB%85%84\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea\u2019s military is rushing to identify potential recruits for next year as a part of efforts to fight draft dodging, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 Daily NK sources reported that the authorities have already begun creating lists of potential recruits from among students who are currently in their fifth year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":44451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,646],"tags":[691],"class_list":["post-44450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-military","tag-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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