[imText1]A protest incident at Nammun market in Hoeryong, N. Korea, which was first reported by the Daily NK on Nov. 8th, caused 20 people arrested by the North Korean authorities, according to the Asahi Shimbun report yesterday.
The Japanese newspaper also covered a death of a resident in a clash over management of the Nammun market in September.
Nammun market is located 2 km southeast from Hoeryong city and supplied basic necessities for local residents. The Asahi said “Residents resisted against the government’s regulation of opening hours of the market and prohibition of off-hour
Out of the 20 arrested, two were accused of inciting and leading the protest.
On November 8th, the Daily NK reported that about one hundred angry merchants, as a mass, requested the management authority to ‘return the market renovation payment’ and against ‘merge of Hoeryong markets,’ in a rudimentary form of demonstration.
The mass protest in North Korea, in which any sort of group movement is prohibited, would be the first kind of such incident known to the outside.
