{"id":417830,"date":"2021-05-31T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417830"},"modified":"2021-05-31T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:05:54","slug":"orphans-soldiers-students-north-korea-turns-to-volunteers-for-coal-mines-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/orphans-soldiers-students-north-korea-turns-to-volunteers-for-coal-mines-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphans, soldiers, students: North Korea turns to &#8216;volunteers&#8217; for coal mines, construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orphans, conscripted soldiers, and students &#8211; some appearing to be children &#8211; are &#8220;volunteering&#8221; to work manual labour in North Korea, including in coal mines, farms, and large construction projects, the country&#8217;s state media have reported. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of graduates of orphan schools &#8220;volunteered to work in difficult fields&#8221;, according to reports by state news agency KCNA.<\/p>\n<p>The reports did not specify the orphans&#8217; ages, but said they had graduated from middle schools, and photos published in state newspapers showed youths who appeared to be in their teens.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday KCNA reported that more than 700 orphans had volunteered to work on cooperative farms, an iron and steel complex, and in forestry, among other areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orphans, conscripted soldiers, and students &#8211; some appearing to be children &#8211; are &#8220;volunteering&#8221; to work manual labour in North Korea, including in coal mines, farms, and large construction projects, the country&#8217;s state media have reported. Hundreds of graduates of orphan schools &#8220;volunteered to work in difficult fields&#8221;, according to reports by state news agency KCNA. The reports did not specify the orphans&#8217; ages, but said they had graduated from middle schools, and photos published in state newspapers showed youths who appeared to be in their teens. On Saturday KCNA reported that more than 700 orphans had volunteered to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}