{"id":45186,"date":"2020-06-04T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45186"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:41:38","slug":"north-korean-women-hyesan-discontent-over-forced-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-women-hyesan-discontent-over-forced-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean women in Hyesan voice discontent over forced labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is growing discontent in Hyesan following the forced mobilization of members of the Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea (SWUK) for construction projects, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe district office and SWUK office in Hyesan\u2019s Unchong Village was recently ordered by the government to have local residents participate in road construction, building apartments, construction work in Samjiyon, and on [unspecified] historical sites,&#8221; a Ryanggang Province-based source told Daily NK on June 2. &#8220;This has led to heavy complaints from women who are being forced to work on these projects everyday.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no getting out of the mobilizations for construction work,\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cIf you are physically unwell or unable to work, you have to pay a financial penalty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the closure of the Sino-North Korean border due to COVID-19 and fewer sources of income than before, it has reportedly become more difficult for many women to pay out bribes to avoid forced mobilizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women in Uchong Village are reportedly being asked to work on construction projects one or twice a week until their completion and everyone is having a \u201ctough time,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A WOMAN&#8217;S BURDEN<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complaints have also been raised by women in other parts of Hyesan who have been roped into all kinds of forced labor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are differences in how people are mobilized depending on the area,\u201d the source told Daily NK. \u201cIn the Songbong area of Hyesan, for example, they made it mandatory for a dependent in each household to work for ten days, so even women are being forced to work.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This suggests that women are taking on the burden of working on state projects because their husbands cannot leave their regular jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many North Korean women are responsible for housework while also supporting their families by selling goods at local markets. Being forced to work on construction projects means they have less time to make money for their families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source explained that the complaints are focused on the government\u2019s blindness to the circumstances women are facing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany women are expressing their discontent, claiming that their households suffer when they are called away to work on projects for long periods of time. Some women are even avoiding state mobilizations when they can,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One major complaint is that many women rely on earning a small amount of money every day to live on and run their household, so it is impossible to make ends meet when they are called away from their families for ten days at a time to work on a construction project,\u201d the source continued. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo one is happy, since household work has to be left to the husband, children or elderly parents while the women are away,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HEAVY-HANDED PUNISHMENT<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have adopted a heavy-handed approach to curbing open complaints against mobilizations and responding to cases where women have evaded forced labor outright.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLocal district offices and the Ministry of State Security (MSS) [in Hyesan] have been investigating evasion vases and several women have been taken away by the MSS,\u201d the source said. \u201cThey are forced to write down an apology, and threatened with violence or being sent to forced labor camps if they refuse.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such written apologies are typically reserved for those accused of serious national crimes; perpetrators of smaller infractions are typically asked to prepare written reflections on their &#8220;mistakes.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK understands that SWUK members were mobilized for projects in Samjiyon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%82%BC%EC%A7%80%EC%97%B0-%EA%B1%B4%EC%84%A4-%EB%8F%99%EC%9B%90-%EA%B8%B0%ED%94%BC-%EB%A7%8C%EC%97%B0%ED%95%9C%EB%8D%B0%E5%8C%97-%EC%97%AC%EB%A7%B9%EC%97%90-%EC%B4%9D%EB%8F%99%EC%9B%90\/\">July<\/a> of last year and again in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%97%AC%EB%A7%B9%EC%9B%90-40%EC%97%AC%EB%AA%85-%EC%82%BC%EC%A7%80%EC%97%B0-%EA%B3%B5%EC%82%AC-%ED%88%AC%EC%9E%85-%ED%8F%AC%EC%B0%A9-%EA%B9%80%EC%A0%95%EC%9D%80-%EB%8F%99%EC%9B%90-%EC%A7%80\/\">March<\/a> of this year (both link to articles in Korean).\u00a0<\/span><\/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\/%EA%B0%95%EC%A0%9C%EB%85%B8%EB%8F%99-%EC%8B%9C%EB%8B%AC%EB%A6%AC%EB%8A%94-%E5%8C%97%EC%97%AC%EC%84%B1-%E9%BB%A8-%EB%B0%A9%EC%B9%A8%EC%9C%BC%EB%A1%9C-%EC%82%BC%EC%A7%80%EC%97%B0-%EA%B1%B4\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is growing discontent in Hyesan following the forced mobilization of members of the Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea (SWUK) for construction projects, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cThe district office and SWUK office in Hyesan\u2019s Unchong Village was recently ordered by the government to have local residents participate in road construction, building apartments, construction work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":45187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[815,959,1123],"class_list":["post-45186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mobilization","tag-forced-labor","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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