North Korea emergency: Kim Jong-un forces government officials to carry out BIZARRE task

In North Korea, it is not uncommon for urban workers to be transferred to the countryside to work during harvest season. But, this is reportedly the first time that important party officials have been sent to the fields. Officials from North Korea’s Organization and Guidance Department, and the Propaganda and Agitation Department, have been sent to a cooperative farm outside the capital Pyongyang.

A North Korean source told Radio Free Asia: “On May 8, the Korean Workers’ Party declared a period of ‘mobilization’ to run from May 10 through June 10, and sent senior officials to support the Changchon Vegetable Cooperative Farm in Pyongyang.

“Officials from these departments had originally been excluded from rural mobilizations during the farming season, but this year all departments of the central party have been required to ‘voluntarily’ support the campaign, regardless of rank.”

When the officials are in the fields they “tend to participate faithfully in their daily routine” as they are aware that they are being watched and evaluated.

The source added: “They are aware that central Party inspectors and new coronavirus quarantine workers, who have been instructed to keep an eye on them, are monitoring their movements day and night.

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