Hoeryong railway maintenance drive forced onto factory and enterprise workers

North Korean authorities in Hoeryong, a city in North Hamgyong province, launched a grueling railway maintenance drive in August 2026. Officials mobilized factory and enterprise workers to strip out and relay the gravel bed beneath a stretch of rail line. Each worker also had to individually supply new gravel, a source said, and the demands […]

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