Main Duties The North's military is Growing Grow

One of a citizen of North Korean defectors (North Korea) Lee So-Yeon shared his experiences while serving as a military. Besides asked to defend the sovereignty of the state, Lee also assigned to, grow crops.

Over 20 years ago, North Korea pulled himself out of the global nuclear treaty. Hundreds of thousands of North
Korean troops were forced to continue to stand by the government in the war could happen at any time.

In 1993 at the time of the Korean Peninsula crisis, Lee armed with iron complete with helmet and save a lot of ammo. Lee was assigned to guard the border North and South Korea, but Lee has never forgotten his duties on the farm.

"With an iron helmet, we went to the fields," said the former soldier who is now aged 49 was.

Sometimes the severity of North Korea was forced to stop the rhetoric against South Korea (ROK) and the United States (U.S.) because their militaries should grow rice, cabbage, beans, corn, potatoes and onions.In addition to Lee, other former North Korean military also told the same thing. He said that North Korea can not grow crops without the role of soldiers.

"North Korea can not grow crops without the military, the North Korean military's primary task is to alleviate hunger," said the former North Korean army defectors, Kim Na-young, told Reuters on Wednesday (04/10/2013).

In May and June, the troops began active on the farm. South Korea and the U.S. had completed military training with him in it.

As is known, the North get ranked fourth in terms of quantity military. North Korean People's Army (KPA) amounted to 1.2 million, and the entire force has a minimum term of 10 years.

40 percent of the country's communist Korea chose to serve in the military, paramilitary, or the defense industry. According to reports from the U.S. Army War College paper, North Korean militaries daredevil and easily mobilized during the war.