N. Korea's youth mobilization project seems meant for tighter state control: ministry

• Published date: 03 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

This image, captured from footage of North Korea's Korean Central Television on Feb. 26, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, third from right, and his daughter, Ju-ae, attending a groundbreaking ceremony to construct new homes in the Sopho area of Pyongyang. Yonhap

North Korea appears to be mobilizing the youth for a new housing project in a bid to tighten state control over the younger generation and elicit their loyalty to leader Kim Jong-un, Seoul's unification ministry said Friday.

Kim attended a groundbreaking ceremony last Saturday for new homes in the Sopho area of Pyongyang, stressing that some 100,000 youths volunteered for the construction project, according to state media.

The ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs said with...