North Korea permits mass mobilizations of factory workers to agricultural areas.
Due to labor shortages on farms, North Korean authorities started permitting mass mobilizations of factory workers to provide labor in agricultural areas without travel certificates.
The permit enables only workers supporting agricultural villages to travel freely, however, authorities have also ordered to intensify crackdowns on individuals caught moving around private business during the farming season.
Factories and enterprises in Hamhung and near farms had been ordered to mobilize their workers for faming as well.
[Source: Daily NK]
