North Korean households receive heavy yearly scrap collection quotas as new year begins - Daily NK English

North Korean households receive heavy yearly scrap collection quotas as new year begins - Daily NK English

North Korean neighborhood watch unit leaders have given households their yearly quotas for various scrap materials they are supposed to collect for the government. Families have been given heavy quotas once again this year, eliciting sighs and lamentations from many North Koreans. A source in North Hamgyong province told Daily NK recently that the yearly quotas had been handed down during meetings of neighborhood watch units at cities and counti…