Parents pay to complete children’s scrap collection tasks as vacation ends and struggle sessions loom

Parents pay to complete children’s scrap collection tasks as vacation ends and struggle sessions loom

North Korean students are toiling under so-called “kids’ plan” tasks, even during vacation. The vacation is supposed to be for rest and recharging, yet social tasks never end, and with the burden entirely shifted onto parents, people complain that the state leaves them little more than husks. “Students in Chongjin are now working to collect scrap iron, scrap rubber, and scrap paper,” a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong province said recently. “T…