North Korean Citizens in Yanggang Province Skip Out on Forced Labor Project

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North Korean Citizens in Yanggang Province Skip Out on Forced Labor Project
2019-06-25

North Korean authorities are investigating a group of citizens in Yanggang province who defied mobilization orders, a common practice by local governments to make citizens donate labor to public projects.

The local Korean Workers’ Party committee slated the residents to clean up a stretch of railway on Sunday, but they didn’t appear because they were busy working on their own farms, sources say.

Following the no-show, the committee began investigations in an attempt to ascertain if any “rebellious elements” were among the citizens.

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