This distinctly North Korean punishment, used especially to discipline and defenestrate high officials, strips a person of office and sends him to perform physical labor and political reeducation, often in the countryside.
—
Jieun Baek,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Oct. 2026
The four-week average of claims, which strips out week-to-week volatility, fell to 196,750.
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