>"[Kim] mobilised the young labour units, called dolgyeokdae or "Shock Brigade"... thanking some 100 000 young men who volunteered to join the plans."

Ha! Sure, they "volunteered!" Totally not corvée/conscripted labor at all guys!

As for the "shock brigades," I quote Joshua Stanton in an article he wrote about the construction of a tourist resort KJU built AFTER the ban on tourism in NK.

>"just stop here, mid-sentence, and ponder the idiocy of taking people away from their normal jobs that might involve useful work to build a fucking resort hotel and then having the gall to call them “shock troop brigades”..."

https://freekorea.us/2018/12/of-course-kim-jong-uns-tourist-resorts-will-fail-of-course-we-can-help-with-that/

It reminds me of this cheesily-militaristic, Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade-style speech NK gave in regard to a ski resort they built ten years ago.

https://www.piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/slave-blog-economic-policy-roundup