North Korean teen defies mother to join army

A widowed mother in Tanchon, South Hamgyong province, has begged her son’s school to keep him off North Korea’s 2026 conscription rolls. The teenager, however, is refusing his military service exemption and insists on joining the Korean People’s Army. The senior high school student could legally skip service as his mother’s only source of support. […]

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