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It takes a people to build a country, and without manpower North Korea would not be running today.
While that’s fairly obvious, in North Korea’s case the need for a controllable workforce is probably more urgent than elsewhere.
Pyongyang faces increasingly heavy sanctions because of its nuclear weapons program, and the list of goods that can’t be imported into the country keeps growing.
Lack of capital investment, materials and technology mean people must step in to do the dangerous work often left to machines or machine operators in other countries.
At the center of North Korea’s ability to "mass mobilize" ordinary North Koreans are propaganda campaigns that instruct the population on how they should play a part in the Kim Jong Un regime.
This week, South Korea denounced a new North Korea slogan that is encouraging laborers to overexert themselves while working on state projects.
The slogan "Spirit of Kangwon Province" is being put forward to the public in order to "squeeze" the most out of North Korean manpower, a Seoul spokesman said.
When North Korea isn’t pushing slogans, it uses its press to publish stories of brave workers, toiling away without safety gear, to encourage loyalty to the regime.
On Monday, Workers’ Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun focused on workers at a power plant, where they were removing a temporary structure at a dam, a "dangerous" job that could have led to drowning deaths.
But what’s a little workplace hazard, when Kim wants to build a "socialist civilization piercing the sky," and the construction work is a raised fist of defiance against "imperialism"?
There is substantial evidence the call for the mass mobilization of untrained workers, who are also poorly equipped, is taking a heavy toll.
Excessive quotas on fish catches, for example, are likely to be behind the continued discoveries of skulls and bodies on North Korean boats off the coast of Japan.
It takes a people to build a country, and without manpower North Korea would not be running today.
While that’s fairly obvious, in North Korea’s case the need for a controllable workforce is probably more urgent than elsewhere.
Pyongyang faces increasingly heavy sanctions because of its nuclear weapons program, and the list of goods that can’t be imported into the country keeps growing.
Lack of capital investment, materials and technology mean people must step in to do the dangerous work often left to machines or machine operators in other countries.
At the center of North Korea’s ability to "mass mobilize" ordinary North Koreans are propaganda campaigns that instruct the population on how they should play a part in the Kim Jong Un regime.
This week, South Korea denounced a new North Korea slogan that is encouraging laborers to overexert themselves while working on state projects.
The slogan "Spirit of Kangwon Province" is being put forward to the public in order to "squeeze" the most out of North Korean manpower, a Seoul spokesman said.
When North Korea isn’t pushing slogans, it uses its press to publish stories of brave workers, toiling away without safety gear, to encourage loyalty to the regime.
On Monday, Workers’ Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun focused on workers at a power plant, where they were removing a temporary structure at a dam, a "dangerous" job that could have led to drowning deaths.
But what’s a little workplace hazard, when Kim wants to build a "socialist civilization piercing the sky," and the construction work is a raised fist of defiance against "imperialism"?
There is substantial evidence the call for the mass mobilization of untrained workers, who are also poorly equipped, is taking a heavy toll.
Excessive quotas on fish catches, for example, are likely to be behind the continued discoveries of skulls and bodies on North Korean boats off the coast of Japan.
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