North Korea’s self-reliance push costs factory worker a finger

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Daily NK English

A technician at a coal mining machinery factory in Chongjin lost a finger recently while attempting to produce insulating paper using scrap lumber, an accident that workers and staff are attributing directly to North Korea’s “self-reliance” policy and the impossible demands it places on factory floors, a source in North Hamgyong province told Daily NK []