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Korea dispatches inspection team to verify cash wage implementation on trial farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words\">A joint task force from the ruling party and Cabinet will monitor South Hwanghae province farms until early next year to assess the effectiveness of amended labor law requiring cash payments instead of in-kind distributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words\">A source in South Hwanghae province told Daily NK recently that &#8220;a guidance and supervision team composed of about 20 personnel from the Central Committee and Cabinet was dispatched to farms in three counties, including Samcheon county, to determine how the Labor Wages Act was being implemented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words\">The task force will stay at local farms until early next year to record how harvests were being distributed between the state quota and individual farmers, as well as the responses of farm workers, and to report their findings to the Central Committee and Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words\">The on-site inspections are a sort of trial program by the Workers&#8217; Party to gauge the impact of the amended Labor Wages Act. 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