Summary
Kim Jong-un has introduced stricter laws in North Korea, sending both spouses in divorcing couples to labor camps for up to six months, with women often receiving longer sentences.
The regime views divorce as anti-socialist. Previously, only the spouse who initiated the divorce was punished.
Rising divorce rates since COVID-19 lockdowns have persisted despite public humiliation and threats of expulsion from the Korean Workers’ Party.
Reports indicate labor camps house dozens of divorcees, mostly in their late 30s, under harsh conditions.
For the downvoters: regardless of your opinions on the US, the CIA, North Korea, etc…, RFA has been a historically unreliable source when it comes to reporting on countries like North Korea. The reporting is often sensationalised, unclearly sourced and because of that often later disproven (often by North Korean defectors).
That doesn’t necessarily mean that this news item is incorrect, fabricated or otherwise false, but given that RFA is an unreliable source and there are no other outlets reporting on this without deferring to RFA as their source, I’d take this with a grain of salt.