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North Korea, unable to meet a deadline for building a wall along its border with China, has turned to forcing married women to make cement blocks for construction, Radio Free Asia reported on Monday.
The regime wants to finish a two-meter high wall with voltage wiring in the province of Ryanggang by October 10, its Party Founding Day, per Radio Free Asia, a US-backed nonprofit news site.
North Korea initially planned to use military and youth personnel as laborers, but anonymous sources in the province told Radio Free Asia that authorities realized they needed more manpower to complete the wall on time. As a result, it ordered married women in the area, as young as those in their 20s and as old as those in their 60s, to start producing 10 blocks of cement a day for the wall until Party Founding Day, per the report.
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