Take A Rare Look Inside North Korea

Published on 11/01/2017
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Hey Kid

In almost every country, child labor is ~not~ allowed in any circumstance. However many images smuggled out of North Korea show children working, not just doing chores for an allowance, but honestly working. According to North Korean officials, this work happens in a harvest season during a severe economic downturn, a downturn that the officials say America caused.

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Fishy, Fishy

Here is the Taedong river, located in the North Korean Capital Pyongyang. If you assumed it was some small, poor village, you were mistaken. Due to severe malnutrition running in the whole country, plus fresh fish and meat are impossible to come by, men like this have to fish in the city’s river just to put food on the table.

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