{"id":32371,"date":"2016-03-09T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=32371"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:25:29","slug":"anger-mounts-as-police-crush-stree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/anger-mounts-as-police-crush-stree\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger mounts as police crush street sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After unleashing a \u201c70 day battle\u201d to increase mobilized labor and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/read.php?cataId=nk01500&amp;num=13782\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"> limit market hours<\/font><\/a> ahead of the May Party Congress, North Korea has also started to<br \/>\nclamp down on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/read.php?num=12888&amp;cataId=nk01500\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"> unofficial alley markets<\/font><\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/read.php?num=13356&amp;cataId=nk01500\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">street vendors<\/font><\/a>. Until now the response from the<br \/>\npublic had remained somewhat tempered regarding the mobilization, but the crackdown on<br \/>\nstreet sales has fired up complaints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t been able to sell things<br \/>\nproperly because of the mandate forcing every resident to take part in<br \/>\nmobilization and \u2018uphold the Party with loyal beads of sweat to build a strong<br \/>\nnation\u2019 in relation to the 70 day battle,\u201d a source from Ryanggang Province<br \/>\ntold Daily NK on March 6. \u201cThese days, MPS [Ministry of People\u2019s Security, or<br \/>\nNorth Korea\u2019s police force] agents are on patrol all the time to crack down on<br \/>\nstreet vendors.\u201d<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This chain of events has been particularly<br \/>\ndistressing for vendors in Yonbong 1-dong, Songhu-dong, Baenamugol, and<br \/>\nYonpung-dong of northerly Ryanggnag Province. For sellers in those locales, unfettered street selling is the primary, it not sole, means of<br \/>\nlivelihood. In the face of continual crackdowns, worries about weathering the<br \/>\nnew host of difficulties brought on by the \u201c70-day battle\u201d thus weigh heavily<br \/>\non already weary minds.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cSome people have tried bringing a bit of<br \/>\nfood out with them to sell before mobilization work, but they\u2019ve had all of it<br \/>\nconfiscated,\u201d the source said. \u201cIn the recent years, people weren\u2019t really<br \/>\nworried about being mobilized because the state didn\u2019t crack down on market<br \/>\nactors and their activities. So of course when you suddenly slap restrictions [on what residents see as their right] people are going to complain.\u201d &nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Indeed, the decree runs contrary to market regulations, or rather lack there of, during the Kim Jong Un era. Since assuming power in 2011, he has pivoted away from the suffocating market policies of his father while incrementally expanding the nation&#8217;s official marketplaces.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\nHowever, following the pronouncement of plans to hold the first Party Congress<br \/>\nscheduled in 36 years, Kim Jong Un has severely diminished people\u2019s primary channel of<br \/>\nsurvival in order to produce more &#8220;achievements&#8221; ahead of the<br \/>\ngathering.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This unforeseen change of tack, a different source in Ryanggang Province reported, is what local residents find impossible to reconcile and has precipitated such a strong response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWho would want to work hard during<br \/>\nmobilization if they\u2019re choking our businesses like this? We\u2019re not doing this to save up cash&#8211;we\u2019re doing it simply to survive!&#8221; the source said, citing a number of merchants in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She then added her own voice to the roiling mix, pointing out that &#8220;if you want to eat, you\u2019ve got to work.<br \/>\nHow are you supposed to defend your country if you can\u2019t do that?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After unleashing a \u201c70 day battle\u201d to increase mobilized labor and limit market hours ahead of the May Party Congress, North Korea has also started to clamp down on unofficial alley markets&nbsp;and street vendors. 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