North Korean farm workers moonlight as paid replacements during harvest mobilization

As North Korea’s national mobilization for the fall harvest nears its conclusion, a bizarre trend has emerged of farm workers being paid to serve as substitute workers on other farms, showing how market logic is being applied to the mobilization system. A source in South Hwanghae province told Daily NK recently that there’s a final push to mobilize workers around the country after the regime…

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November 10, 2025 at 03:07AM

by DailyNK(North Korean Media)