North Korean children forced into streets for a week to perform election enthusiasm

2026-03-19 - 02:10

North Korean schoolchildren as young as elementary age were forced to march through neighborhoods waving flowers and singing state songs for a full week before the country’s March 15 Supreme People’s Assembly elections, with teachers privately admitting the burden fell almost entirely on students while adults found ways to slip away. A South Hamgyong province source told Daily NK on Wednesday... Source