North Korea says orphan children volunteering on mines and farms
State news reports the children want “to repay even just a millionth of the love the party showed”. …
It also said children as young as 16 or 17 “were enrolled in military-style youth construction brigades for 10-year periods”, and suffered from “physical and psychological injuries, malnutrition, exhaustion, and growth deficiencies as a result of required forced labour”.