{"id":3856,"date":"2018-09-11T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.01.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2018-09-19T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T02:12:45","slug":"impoverished-rural-women2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2018\/09\/photo\/impoverished-rural-women2\/","title":{"rendered":"\uff1cN.Korea photo report\uff1eA Look at North Korea's Impoverished Rural Women (2) \"Life is like being a cow on a farm\" (Photo 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An elderly man picking up ears of corn in a harvested field. Photographed in a farm village in North Hwanghae Province in October, 2008 by Shim Uicheon (ASIAPRESS)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u25c6Stuck on a farm for a lifetime<\/h2>\n

In North Korea, there is the word \u2018nongpo\u2019. It is a word spoken with disdain and pity to describe the cooperative farmers in the lowest level of North Korean society.<\/p>\n

When urban people are expelled for political reasons, most are sent to the remote countryside to become cooperative farm workers.<\/p>\n

\"If you are placed on a farm, you can never return to the city in your life. Like a cow, you will only work.\u201d<\/p>\n

For just one family member\u2019s political problems, an entire extended family will face banishment to the countryside, a women tells us.<\/p>\n

Having judged that \u201cMy daughter and son\u2019s lives are over,\u201d the woman decided to escape and now lives in the Kansai region of Japan.<\/p>\n

(ISHIMARU Jiro)<\/p>\n

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Rural women carrying\u00a0(fire woods)fir trees to Chongjin City from distant farmland. They say they are pulling them 20 kilometers by cart for cash. Taken in April, 2005 by Ri Jun (ASIAPRESS)<\/p><\/div>\n

Next page: Women gathering compost outside in the cold...<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Women gathering compost outside in the cold. Photographed in central North Korea in mid-January, 2015 by Kim Dong-chul (ASIAPRESS)<\/p><\/div>\n

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A rural woman carrying a large sack. Photographed in a rural area outside Pyongyang in October 2008 by Jang Jung-gil (ASIAPRESS)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Women weeding on a farm. Taken from across the Chinese border in April 2005 by ISHIMARU Jiro<\/p><\/div>\n

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