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Korea issues nationwide order to recruit additional soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea issued an order to army mobilization departments nationwide on Oct. 12 calling for the recruitment of additional troops, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the order likely aims to supplement shortages of manpower in the military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea carried out its regular autumn recruitment in August and September. Following the latest order, however, army mobilization departments nationwide are reportedly going &#8220;on-site&#8221; take part in recruiting additional soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rumors have recently been circulating inside North Korea that the authorities might lengthen the term of military service, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service had reported that North Korea shortened the period of military service last year by about two years \u2014 from nine to 10 years to seven to eight years for men, and from six to seven years to five years for women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, with word going round that the period of service might increase again, many more young people are reacting negatively to recruitment efforts or avoiding enlistment altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Chongjin&#8217;s army mobilization department dispatched guidance officers to factories and other workplaces to carry out initial surveys for additional recruitments, but the surveys reportedly yielded little.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most young people who were interviewed flatly refused to enlist in the military by offering a variety of excuses, including illness and only-child status, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said one young person in Chongjin\u2019s Ponam District was exempted from the additional recruitment efforts after he gave the city\u2019s army mobilization department a note saying he required over three months of \u201cstabilization treatment\u201d after stepping in front of a passing car on Oct. 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hoeryong\u2019s Nammun-dong neighborhood, one young person caused a local uproar when he disappeared for several days after hearing news of the additional recruitment efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said young people nowadays think entering the army is \u201cworse than death&#8221; under the belief that the experience robs them of their youth for no good reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Young people] are avoiding military duty even more because they saw how soldiers who completed their military duty are not sent home, but rather forcefully sent to difficult-to-live areas of the country,\u201d he explained.\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\/20221021-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea issued an order to army mobilization departments nationwide on Oct. 12 calling for the recruitment of additional troops, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Friday.\u00a0 The source said the order likely aims to supplement shortages of manpower in the military. 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