N. Korea's mobilized youth are abandoning workplaces in droves - Daily NK English

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N. Korea's mobilized youth are abandoning workplaces in droves - Daily NK English

A growing number of North Korean youths who were forced by the North’s authorities to “volunteer” for hardship jobs are abandoning their workplaces and visiting gambling halls, Daily NK has learned. “A considerable number of youths who volunteered for socialist work at mines, farms and construction sites are running away because of dissatisfaction with their assignments. The police and youth league supervisors are rounding up the runaways, and l…