{"id":52567,"date":"2022-08-16T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52567"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:43:13","slug":"north-korea-exiles-young-people-families-after-refusal-live-agricultural-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-exiles-young-people-families-after-refusal-live-agricultural-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea exiles young people and their families after their refusal to live in agricultural villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities recently exiled young people along with their families to rural mountainous areas after avoiding calls to \u201cvolunteer\u201d to live in hard-to-survive agricultural villages of Gangwon Province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have occasionally punished young people who refuse or avoid volunteering for service in the countryside. However, Daily NK understands that it is extraordinary for young people to be exiled with their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in the country last Thursday, some young people in Wonsan who had been delaying their \u201cpetitions\u201d the authorities to move to the countryside were instead exiled with their families to remote mountainous areas of North and South Hwanghae provinces in early August.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exiled young people had been putting off their petitions since April, citing health and family issues. When the provincial committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League sensed that they were citing non-existent health and family issues to avoid being sent to the countryside, it proposed to the provincial party committee that the young people be exiled with their families to areas deep in the mountains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The party committee decided to adopt the proposal and exiled the young people and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo think not of repaying the Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s love and benevolence with the sweat of loyalty when the nation is struggling, and to refuse the Party\u2019s policies and orders in pursuit of one\u2019s pleasure, is an enemy act,\u201d the committee said in its decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the party committee ordered that the young people be placed in front of a denunciation rally and subjected to \u201can intensive ideological struggle.\u201d According to the source, a struggle session was then held before about 800 young people at the Socialist Patriotic Youth\u2019s hall in Wonsan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The party committee also made the parents of the offending youth write \u201cletters of reflection\u201d on how their failure to properly educate their children \u201ccaused the Party distress,\u201d as well as written \u201cresolutions\u201d to \u201cgo to a rural community and work with sincerity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The punishments suggest the authorities are trying to stop others from shirking from their petitions for rural service by showing that penalties await those who go against party policies and orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, with news of the forced exiles spreading throughout Wonsan, young people who had previously demonstrated insufficient enthusiasm about service in the countryside are trying to attract as little attention from the authorities as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s tough enough making ends meet in even cities now, so few people will want to volunteer to go to an agricultural village,\u201d said the source. \u201cYoung people who petitioned to be sent to the countryside are being driven to agricultural villages under organized government coercion.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exiled young people and their families have been given homes, but the roofs are full of holes and they lack proper flooring, the source said, adding that t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he exiles cannot hide their shock at their horrible living conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220811-2\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities recently exiled young people along with their families to rural mountainous areas after avoiding calls to \u201cvolunteer\u201d to live in hard-to-survive agricultural villages of Gangwon Province.\u00a0 North Korean authorities have occasionally punished young people who refuse or avoid volunteering for service in the countryside. 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