Empty exhibitions: N. Korea's growing crackdown on policy formalism - Daily NK English

Empty exhibitions: N. Korea's growing crackdown on policy formalism - Daily NK English

Recent reports indicate that punishments are being intensified across North Korean society for issues of formalism in implementing Workers’ Party policies. According to a source in South Pyongan Province, the annual spring agricultural tool exhibition in North Korea’s farming sector was once again conducted as a mere formality this year, drawing criticism for providing no actual benefit to agricultural production or farm household income. This y…