Sources from Pyongyang have revealed that the authorities provided the people of the city with \u2018special distribution\u2019 to mark the 66th anniversary of the founding of the Chosun Workers\u2019 Party on October 10th, advertizing it as stemming from Kim Jong Eun\u2019s love for the people, the first time that such distribution has been described as stemming from the solicitude of the successor, rather than that of Kim Jong Il or Kim Il Sung before him.<\/p>\n
A source from the North Korean capital explained to The Daily NK today, \u201cEach Pyongyang citizen was provided with 13 days of distribution to commemorate the Party founding. Enterprises and people\u2019s units described this holiday distribution as coming from the \u2018Young General\u2019s care\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n
The source continued, \u201cA part of the rice from the No. 2 Store was released to form this special distribution, both to console the Pyongyang people who are being mobilized for all kinds of construction activities on the one hand, and to show that the Young General knows all about the difficulties the people are suffering on the other.\u201d <\/p>\n
No. 2 Store is used to maintain emergency supplies of rice, corn, shoes and clothing etc under the department of the Workers\u2019 Party that oversees military supplies. It amasses grain stores at the end of every fall harvest for the military, while the food in the grain stores is ordinarily exchanged for fresh supplies once every 4 years.<\/p>\n
The people of Pyongyang reportedly had mixed feelings about the arrival of the food.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople had more interest in how much food they were getting than that it was coming thanks to the care of the Young General,\u201d the source noted. Nevertheless, \u201cPeople seem to think it is good that the Young General is taking an interest in the ordinary people\u2019s food problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, \u201cTo the news about the food coming from the No. 2 Warehouse, the response has been worry about future food problems since \u2018the state rice jars are all empty.\u2019\u201d It has also reportedly been pointed out that distribution is only \u201cspecial\u201d if it comes on top of regular distribution.<\/p>\n
Not only that, the source added, people worry that \u201cIf they are throwing 13 days of fodder at us, who knows how much mobilization there will be now.\u201d<\/p>\n
In North Korea, the state has long given special distribution to the entire population on four major days; Kim Il Sung\u2019s birthday on April 15th; that of Kim Jong Il on February 16th; the day of the state\u2019s proclamation on September 9th; and Party founding day on October 10th. This provision has traditionally included oil, snack, pork and such like; things that are in rather short supply otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sources from Pyongyang have revealed that the authorities provided the people of the city with \u2018special distribution\u2019 to mark the 66th anniversary of the founding of the Chosun Workers\u2019 Party on October 10th, advertizing it as stemming from Kim Jong Eun\u2019s love for the people, the first time that such distribution has been described as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n