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2017.06.28
| Won | Pyongyang | Sinuiju | Hyesan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange Rate | 8,070 | 8,050 | 8,095 |
| Rice Price | 5,800 | 6,000 | 5,900 |
A source inside North Korea has revealed growing tension between some Chosun People's Army units and the cooperative farms that surround them.
The source, who hails from rural Onsung County in North Hamkyung Province, told Daily NK on the 22nd, “There is growing conflict between these military units and the farm management committees, and that is because soldiers are forever going onto the farms in the middle of the night and cutting the ears off rice plants.”
The political sections of the accused military bases have reportedly promised to work with the local National Security Agency to deal with the problem, but this has not occurred in any meaningful way, the source added.
Under normal circumstances, North Korean cooperative farms gather their rice harvest starting in mid-October, and then from early November they thresh the dried rice plants. Thereafter, the military comes to pick up their assigned rations. However, right now soldiers are apparently stealing the rice at night with the intention of selling it to merchants.
The source said, “As military food ration levels fall, young soldiers begin to steal corn and rice; this is not the first time, in fact it happens every year, but right now a lot more than normal is being stolen.”
The source, who hails from rural Onsung County in North Hamkyung Province, told Daily NK on the 22nd, “There is growing conflict between these military units and the farm management committees, and that is because soldiers are forever going onto the farms in the middle of the night and cutting the ears off rice plants.”
The political sections of the accused military bases have reportedly promised to work with the local National Security Agency to deal with the problem, but this has not occurred in any meaningful way, the source added.
Under normal circumstances, North Korean cooperative farms gather their rice harvest starting in mid-October, and then from early November they thresh the dried rice plants. Thereafter, the military comes to pick up their assigned rations. However, right now soldiers are apparently stealing the rice at night with the intention of selling it to merchants.
The source said, “As military food ration levels fall, young soldiers begin to steal corn and rice; this is not the first time, in fact it happens every year, but right now a lot more than normal is being stolen.”
