N. Korean woman drinks herbicide after father opposes marriage - Daily NK English

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N. Korean woman drinks herbicide after father opposes marriage - Daily NK English

In Kyongwon County, North Hamgyong Province, a teacher recently tried to commit suicide because her father, a powerful official, strongly opposed her marriage to her boyfriend, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that the woman, a high school teacher in Kyongwon County, was hospitalized last month after drinking herbicide following a clash with her father, an offic…