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North Korean Soldiers Drop Weapons To Pick Up Farming Tools
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Paul SzoldraFrom Fox:
Inside the DMZ, hundreds of North Korean soldiers marched in a line with backpacks. On a hilltop above them in North Hwanghae province, Col. Kim Chang Jun said they were being dispatched to farms — but still prepared for war if need be.
“It’s impossible for [North Korean soldiers] to fight because they don’t have enough food and their health is poor,” Choe Song Min, a defector who spent 20 years in the North’s army, told the Independent.
Sources within South Korea told The Independent that up to seven million people in the North have been ordered to make preparations for spring harvest.