State media report on "volunteers" for "hardest work" in North Korea.
There are apparently hundreds of young orphans among them.
Pyongyang - The international community seems used to irritating news from the authoritarian communist country North Korea. A current report is still shocking. Numerous orphans in North Korea are said to have registered for “the hardest work”. Reports from the state news agency KCNA write of "hundreds of graduates from orphan schools" who "volunteer in difficult areas" such as coal mines, cooperative farms and large construction projects.
The news
platform NK News
, which claims to be an association of journalists and analysts who specialize in North Korea, tweeted on Saturday: “North Korea claims that orphans work 'voluntarily' in coal mines and farms.
According to state media, ceremonies took place on May 26th to 'congratulate the orphans on their voluntary work in difficult and labor-intensive areas act.
North Korea under dictator Kim Jong-un: Hundreds of "volunteers" sent to mines - numerous orphans
The tweet was accompanied by photos that were apparently published in North Korean newspapers. As reported by the British news
agency Reuters
, these orphans are said to have finished high school. The pictures show "volunteers" who appear to be in their young teens. The American news website ABC News writes that on Saturday the North Korean news agency reported more than 700 orphans who had signed up to work on farms, in the iron and steel complex and in forestry. Previously, KCNA reported on Thursday about 150 orphans who would henceforth work in coal mines, among other things.
North Korea claims that orphan children are "volunteering" to work in coal mines and farms.
Ceremonies to "congratulate the orphan children for volunteering to work in difficult and labor-consuming fields" were held on May 26, according to state media.https: //t.co/e0Hq7Ybnzi
- NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) May 29, 2021
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(Graduates from orphan schools)
volunteered to work on large construction sites for socialist reconstruction to glorify their youth in the struggle for the country's prosperity," ABC News quoted from the state report of the East Asian isolated from the world Country. “They finished their school courses under the warm care of the mother party.” How warm the care of the Labor Party of Korea (PdAK), the unity party ruling North Korea under the party chairman and dictator Kim Jong-un, actually is, remains more than questionable. One thing is clear: the verification of information from North Korea and independent reporting is hardly possible due to the restrictive political system.
The corona pandemic and the associated containment measures have hit the country hard economically. As a result, a report by the United Nations from March 2021 speaks of “famines” and “executions” in the event of violations of the Corona requirements. A special rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea describes “starvation” due to a “drastic decline in trade and industry” and an increasing number of children and the elderly who depend on begging.
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