The Shadow of Increased Coal Production... Driving Even the Elderly and Women Into Coal Mines?

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Recently, news has emerged that the Sunchon District Youth Coal Mine Complex in South Pyongan Province is mobilizing even elderly people who retired from working as tunnelers and coal miners, as well as local women, to coal production sites to fill the chronic labor shortage. If they are in a situation where they must engage in labor virtually without choice under the direction of the Party organization, this goes beyond mere encouragement of pr…