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Recently, the United Nations published that North Korea’s food production is the lowest in more than a decade. An estimated eleven million people inside the country — nearly 43 percent - are undernourished...(more you can read here)

Today's DailyNK reported the following: Serious problems appear to be impacting North Korea’s food supplies in South Pyongan Province given that even members of the government – usually the first to receive food rations – have been unable to receive them, causing many government officials to stop working altogether. “Officials working for provincial party committees and offices in the cities and counties, along with those working in police and prosecutor’s offices, have been unable to receive regular food rations. This has led to a situation where less than 70% of government officials are actually coming to work – the first time this has ever happened,” said a South Pyongan Province-based source...(the complete report you'll get here)

PS. IMO it seems - if the report really reflects the current reality(??) - that South Pyongan Province(평안남도) is currently the best place(in N. Korea) to start an uprising(according to comrade Mao Zedong: "Resistance is justified!!")...

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Last month(2.17) Hankyoreh reported the following: After losing their jobs in a mass layoff 13 years ago(*), dismissed workers at Cort Guitars will finally get a meeting with Cort President Park Young-ho. The meeting is expected to take place in early March...

But, unfortunately(surprise, surprise..^^), the meeting never took place!

Therefore they(i.e. the dismissed Cort workers) issued y'day(3.12) at noon(KST) the following statement during a press conference: 

From Today we'll go on an indefinite HUNGER STRIKE...

...until the Cort management, resp. Park Young-ho, restore our dignity as (at least former)Cort employees.

Related reports in Korean:

☞ 콜텍 해고자, 무기한 단식…정부, ‘최장기 투쟁’ 방관하나 (참세상, 3.12)
☞ “단 하루의 복직도 안 된다” (금속노동자, 3.12)

* Some background info you'll get here.

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The Central Election Committee Tuesday released a report on the results of the election of the deputies to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea held on Mar. 10, Juche 108(2019)...

According to the result of vote count, 99.99 percent of all the electors registered on the voter rolls across the country attended the election and 100 percent of them cast their ballots for the candidates for deputies to the SPA registered in relevant constituencies...

(source: KCNA, 3.12)

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Last Friday(3.08) afternoon(KST) in central Seoul: KCTU celebrated the Int'l Women's Day with a powerful rally/demo...(*) Here're just some impressions, provided by KPTU:

* KCTU's detailed report(in Korean), incl. lots of pics, you'll get here.

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Today in the afternoon(KST) across S. Korea: About 20,000 workers followed a call for "general strike"...
 

...by KCTU(the union's membership: approx. 800,000[!!])...

KCTU members are striking and rallying...

...in thirteen regions around the country ahead of meeting of the ESLC(*) tomorrow. The ESLC, supposed to pass agreements to increase labour flexibility (expand flexible worktime system) and revise trade union law. Employers are calling for more restrictions on union activities and the right to strike and the govenment is saying accepting these demand are the price we have to pay for ratification of ILO Conventions 87 and 98. How can ratifying ILO conventions be about weakening labour rights!?!. This is just the start of KCTU's fight to stop this attack on workers and democracy.(source: KCTU via fb)

* Discussions on ratification of ILO conventions and revision of labour law are currently taking place in the Committee on Improvement of Labour Relations Law and Practice of the Economic, a subcommittee of the Social and Labour Council (ESLC), a social dialogue body established by South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The committee is scheduled to issue recommendations on labour law revision on March 7...(source: PSI, 3.04)

KCTU's detailed report(in Korean), incl. lots of pics you'll get here.

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