{"id":30859,"date":"2015-06-01T18:03:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T09:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=30859"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:26:28","slug":"hunt-on-for-missing-national-treas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/hunt-on-for-missing-national-treas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt on for missing national treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" class=\"bbs_caption1_box\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/efile\/201506\/DNKE_1262_295691_1433149102_i.png\"><br \/><a class=\"bbs_caption1\">Image: Chosun Central TV<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">North Korean authorities have issued a<br \/>\nnationwide directive to track down a national treasure that has recently turned<br \/>\nup missing: a gold ring worn by Kim Jong Suk, Kim Jong Un\u2019s grandmother, a<br \/>\nfigure propagated throughout North Korea\u2019s official historical accounts as a paradigm<br \/>\nfor the population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThere was an urgent inminban (people\u2019s<br \/>\nunit) meeting late at night on the 11th, when the ring was stolen from the<br \/>\nChosun Revolutionary Museum,\u201d a source in Yangkang Province told Daily NK on<br \/>\nthe 28th via phone. \u201cEvery security agent is on emergency duty and under strict<br \/>\norders nationwide to report the issues to residents.\u201d<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Inminban meetings are being carried out<br \/>\nconcurrently throughout the country, during which people are told to report to<br \/>\nthe authorities immediately if they know anything about the incident. \u201cBecause<br \/>\nthe ring was worn by one of the three most important members of the Kim dynasty<br \/>\n(Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Suk, and Kim Jong Il), the state sees the heist as a<br \/>\ndirect challenge to the monolithic leadership system,\u201d she explained.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">According to the information circulating at<br \/>\nthe inminban meetings, the stolen ring is 18k gold and features a prominent<br \/>\ninscription of the year of it was made&#8212;an attribute the authorities hope will draw<br \/>\nattention to anyone brazen enough to attempt to pawn it off.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Naturally, most are perplexed at how<br \/>\nsomeone would even be able to pull off lifting anything from the heavily<br \/>\nfortified building. The source, equally surprised, surmised that someone<br \/>\ncapitalized on the recent \u201cturbulent social climate\u201d (Hyon Yong<br \/>\nChol\u2019s execution) to devise a plan and make it away with the precious band.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Opinion on the ground borders on the<br \/>\nincredulous, as any item housed in that museum is a national treasure, meaning<br \/>\nthat \u201cthere is no way the thief is unaware that his or her life is at risk.\u201d<br \/>\nStill, most feel the frantic lectures at the inminban meetings will do little, if anything, to track<br \/>\ndown the ring, according to the source.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Chosun Revolutionary Museum, located on<br \/>\nMansu Hill in Pyongyang, inundates visitors with countless statues and memorabilia<br \/>\nof the nation\u2019s two late leaders. Previously known as the National Central<br \/>\nLiberation Struggle Museum since its establishment in 1948 in Pyongyang\u2019s<br \/>\nCentral District, the current facility rests on Mansu Hill since its rebranding<br \/>\nin 1960. &nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">North Korea\u2019s state-run Chosun Central TV<br \/>\naired a series in 2012 dedicated to the story behind the ring, purportedly bestowed on Kim<br \/>\nJong Suk by Kim Il Sung in 1938 for her alleged role fighting in the<br \/>\nanti-Japanese guerilla movement led by nation\u2019s future founder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">*The content of this article was broadcast to the North Korean people via Unification Media Group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Chosun Central TV North Korean authorities have issued a nationwide directive to track down a national treasure that has recently turned up missing: a gold ring worn by Kim Jong Suk, Kim Jong Un\u2019s grandmother, a figure propagated throughout North Korea\u2019s official historical accounts as a paradigm for the population.&nbsp; \u201cThere was an urgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":30861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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