Economic desperation drives surge of North Korean women into hazardous mining work

Economic desperation drives surge of North Korean women into hazardous mining work

Several North Koreans who had resorted to gold mining as a last resort in the face of economic difficulties recently died when mines collapsed, including a mother of a three-year-old and a divorced woman in her 30s. “People from several counties in South Pyongan province who had begun gold mining out of desperation to buy at least food amid hardship perished in an accident,” a Daily NK source in… Source