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This handout photo taken on September 19, 2019 and released on October 24 by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) shows farmer Ri Jong Gi, 50, working in a rice field in North Korea's South Hamgyong province. Finnish Red Cross / AFP North Korea regularly demands a lot from its citizens, from free labor at building sites to food donations for troops. But the latest order to farmers has them wetting themselves with scornful laughter: Each farmer must donate two liters of their urine daily to make fertilizer, sources in the country ...

Reuters North Korea is mobilizing recently discharged soldiers to toil away in coal mines and construction sites right after they have completed their grueling mandatory 10-year stint in the military, sources in the country told RFA. As it is still technically at war with prosperous South Korea, North Korea makes every male serve 10 years in the armed forces after finishing high school, and life in the North’s military involves a lot more than combat training. Soldiers are used as laborers for government projects or to harvest crops, with some even sent to work abroad to earn ...

KCNA/via Reuters North Korea has ordered its farmers to begin planting crops, but many farms in the country have yet to be plowed due to a severe lack of adequate farming machinery, sources told RFA. During January’s Eighth Party Congress, the central government said that, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, North Korea had been too reliant on China for covering its food shortages, and that too much of its economy was dependent on cross-border trade. When Beijing and Pyongyang closed their border and suspended all trade in January 2020, the North Korean economy came to a near h...

AP The North Korean capital Pyongyang has begun demolishing entire neighborhoods to make way for leader Kim Jong Un’s ambitious plan to construct 10,000 homes in the city by year’s end, but people displaced by the project have nowhere to live, sources in the capital told RFA. At a congress of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party in January, Kim unveiled a plan to alleviate a housing shortage in the country’s largest city by building with 50,000 new homes by the end of 2025, beginning with 10,000 in 2021. Construction began almost immediately after the announcement, with orga...

Pressed to deliver 10,000 houses by year’s end, authorities drag women away from their familial responsibilities to work at night.