Text of new Labor Management Act reveals how authorities mobilize workers and keep them from flocking to markets
A new North Korean law has codified the complex system of labor management that the state uses to allocate workers and carry out mass mobilizations, revealing new details about how the state exerts absolute control over the lives of laborers.
The Labor Management Act, adopted on May 29, 2025, is the latest example of the DPRK’s dramatic push to pass or amend publicly available laws, and the ROK outlet Daily NK recently published the nearly complete text of the law
A close look at the provisions largely confirms much of what was known or assumed about
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