Over 4800 students from more than 110 universities across North Korea are spending their summer vacations at work on the marquee construction project in Samjiyon, ruling party daily the Rodong Sinmun reported this week.

Students from some of North Korea’s most prestigious universities “dedicated their summer holidays” to lend assistance on the building site, the report said.

“At the construction sites of the Samjiyon Children’s Camp, the Millim Health Complex and others, members of students’ shock brigade carried over 1 300 cubic meters of sand, fine gravel and pumice sand and other building materials to the construction sites,” it continued.

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