BBC: Rape and no periods in North Korea's army
A former soldier says life as a woman in the world's fourth-largest army was so tough that most soon stopped menstruating. And rape, she says, was a fact of life for many of those she served with.
For almost 10 years Lee So Yeon slept on the bottom bunk bed, in a room she shared with more than two dozen women. Every woman was given a small set of drawers in which to store their uniforms. On top of those drawers each kept two framed photographs. One was of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung. The second was of his now deceased heir, Kim Jong-il.
It was more than a decade ago that she left, but she retains vivid memories of the smell of the concrete barracks.
"We sweat quite a bit.
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Update: Conditions for female North Korean soldiers are so brutal their periods stop and rape is commonplace, defector says (Daily Mail)
WNU Editor: So much for the North Korean claim that it is a worker's paradise.
Is this one of the stories, where Young Communist avoids extolling the virtues of communism?
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