enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Women in North Korea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_North_Korea

    Today, North Korean women exercise new forms of power, yet are simultaneously excluded from positions of real power. For example, North Korean women are the leaders of the underground (and illegal) markets. Many women are entrepreneurs, using creativity and resourcefulness to provide for their families during times of economic hardship.

  3. Women in the North Korean Revolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_North_Korean...

    A female soldier and peasant, detail of the Mansu Hill Grand Monument. Women gained an unprecedented amount of social and legal reforms during the North Korean revolution (1945–1950).

  4. Conscription in North Korea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_North_Korea

    Conscription in North Korea occurs despite ambiguity concerning its legal status. Men are universally conscripted while women undergo selective conscription. Conscription takes place at age 17 and service ends at 30. Children of the political elites are exempt from conscription, as are people with bad songbun (ascribed social status in North ...

  5. Russia is dropping millions on pay for up to 100,000 North ...

    www.aol.com/news/russia-dropping-millions-pay...

    Russia is paying $2,000 a month for each North Korean soldier, per reports. But the soldiers, who could number 100,000, probably won't see any of it. Russia is dropping millions on pay for up to ...

  6. Kippumjo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippumjo

    The Kippumjo (Korean: 기쁨조; translated as Pleasure Squad, Pleasure Brigade, or Pleasure Group), sometimes spelled Kippeumjo (also Gippumjo or Gippeumjo), is an unconfirmed collection of groups of approximately 2,000 women and girls reportedly maintained by the leader of North Korea for the purpose of providing entertainment, including that of a sexual nature, for high-ranking Workers ...

  7. Women in warfare and the military (2000–present) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_warfare_and_the...

    North Korea is making military service mandatory for young women in a bid to strengthen the nation's armed forces, sources inside North Korea told DailyNK. The measure is said to apply to women aged between 17 and 20, and has been handed down to mobilization offices in each province, city, and county.

  8. North Korean soldiers given fake Russian military IDs ...

    www.aol.com/north-korean-soldiers-given-fake...

    A South Korean lawmaker said about 100 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed and almost 1,000 injured since being deployed to Kursk, according to the country’s intelligence agency.

  9. At least 3,000 North Korean soldiers now inside Russia, US says

    www.aol.com/news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin...

    At least 3,000 North Korean soldiers arrived in eastern Russia this month, the White House said Wednesday, and while it remains unclear what exactly they will do, it is a “highly concerning ...