{"id":1942,"date":"2006-02-27T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T05:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:58:28","slug":"nk-how-a-massive-removal-of-reside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/nk-how-a-massive-removal-of-reside\/","title":{"rendered":"NK, How a Massive Removal of Residents Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[imText1]While talks of Shinuiju Special Zone reestablishment is going around, a \u2018forced residents removal\u2019 order is peaking curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>In South Korea, the government cannot instruct the forced removal of residents, except for when states of emergency such as epidemics, war, and convulsions of nature break out. However, the North Korean government can do it. If one day the Party orders that, \u2018You, go and live with someone who lives in a certain district\u2019, which is called the \u2018living together\u2019 order, you have to go and live with the complete stranger. \u2018Expulsion\u2019 and \u2018forced removal\u2019 are worse than the \u2018living together\u2019 order.<\/p>\n<p>Article 5 (75) of the North Korean constitutional law expressly indicates \u2018the people have freedom of residence and travels. Yet, the \u2018expulsion\u2019 and the \u2018forced removal\u2019 that the government ordered are carried out regardless of the residents\u2019 will. <\/p>\n<p><b><font color=blue>How the \u2018Expulsion\u2019 and the \u2018Forced Removal\u2019 Orders are Distinct from Each Other?<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018expulsion\u2019 has the main characteristic of summary execution without a given time. The main objects of the expulsion are \u25b3 Objectors against the Kim Jong Il regime \u25b3 Doers of damage to the Kim Jong Il authority \u25b3 General lawbreakers. The people in question are executed or confined, while their families are expelled. The purposes of these measures are to show the strictness of the law to the people and to isolate the expelled families from of their original classes. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the \u2018forced removal\u2019 is given a time. If general living areas are determined to be No.1 events(ones related to Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung) region or where foreigners can influence, people who are ones of mean birth, have a wicked attitude, and act improperly are sorted out and removed to other regions by force. <\/p>\n<p>In the case of a one-way road or a villa to be built for use only by Kim Jong Il, the regions around them become event districts. If that happens, the people classified as wicked residents living within a several km radius are removed and only principal masses are introduced into. For example, when \u2018Kim father and son&#8217;s villa\u2019 was built at Songhanli in Shinuiju, the people classified as wicked residents living around the villa were removed. In the case of Changseung villa, wicked residents living at Yaksuli were forcibly removed to Dongchang district or Cheonma district. <\/p>\n<p>Even if the residents are not categorized into the wicked, if their houses do not have a good appearance, then they come to be the objects of the \u2018forced removal\u2019 order. Special Administration regions or areas near the highways are the very cases. This is because the North Korean government thinks that it impairs \u2018the image of the republic\u2019, in case foreigners see the shabby houses. For instance, in 1995 when Inoki (a Japanese professional wrestler) visited Pyeongyang, one thousand houses around the Pyongyang-Hyangsan Highway were demolished. Principal masses were moved into the group houses built after that on the identical spot. <\/p>\n<p>The expelled residents who have no houses are ordered to \u2018live together\u2019 in houses of their coworkers. When an expelled person is A, and his coworkers is B, then until A\u2019s house is completed, A should live with B. B should allow A to use a bigger room as the bedroom and a cell right next to it as the kitchen. B should stay in a small room with his wife, children and parents. Because of the house matter, the relationship between A and B is estranged like a \u2018master and servant\u2019 relationship.<\/p>\n<p>There is never national compensation for the damage generated from the \u2018expulsion\u2019 and the \u2018forced removal\u2019 orders. Even though residents rebuild (after demolishing the former shabby house, building a new house on the same land) their houses, if they get the \u2018removal\u2019 order, they can not claim ownership of their houses and lands except for household goods. It is because all lands and houses are registered to be owned by the government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[imText1]While talks of Shinuiju Special Zone reestablishment is going around, a \u2018forced residents removal\u2019 order is peaking curiosity. In South Korea, the government cannot instruct the forced removal of residents, except for when states of emergency such as epidemics, war, and convulsions of nature break out. However, the North Korean government can do it. 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