North Korea Conscripts Citizens for ‘Farming Battles’ During COVID-19 Crisis North Korea is moving forward with its annual “farming battle” labor-mobilization campaign despite the coronavirus crisis, raising health concerns as it is not providing facemasks to citizens conscripted to plant crops, sources in the country told RFA. The free-labor drive comes as North Korea, which uses military phrases to motivate workers in agriculture and industry, is facing grain shortfalls made worse by COVID-19 border closures with China and longer-term deforestation threats as it cuts down forests to expand farmland, experts said. “Rice planting battles have begun on farms all over the province,” a resident of South Pyongan province who requested anonymity to speak freely told RFA’s Korean Service. “In Unsan county, housewives are being mobilized to support farming. Despite the continued spread of the coronavirus, authorities are pushing head with the mobilization campaign without quarantine e...
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