＜Photo Report＞ Female Soldiers are in Miserable Conditions: Mothers are worried about their daughters getting sexually harassed and becoming malnourished.

A female soldier wearing a shabby military uniform is walking around hawker stalls near a market. April 2004, in North Hamkyung Province. Taken by Ahn Chol (ASIAPRESS)

A propaganda picture posted on state-owned media. Kim Jong-un visits an all female troop of the military and the female soldiers “passionately welcome” him. Ki Jong-un’s facial expression shows awkwardness. Quoted from “Rodong Sinmun,” a propaganda outlet of North Korea on August 2012