{"id":36350,"date":"2018-06-08T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=36350"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:23:08","slug":"cargo-truck-rolls-over-in-ryanggang-province-killing-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/cargo-truck-rolls-over-in-ryanggang-province-killing-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo truck rolls over in Ryanggang Province, killing 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36352\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36352 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/IMG_2962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/IMG_2962.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/IMG_2962-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/IMG_2962-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/IMG_2962-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/IMG_2962-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck transporting coal and a servi-cha transporting people from Musan Mine. Image: Daily NK Photo Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cargo truck heading to a construction site in Samjiyon-gun, Ryanggang Province, rolled over on June 3, killing 21 people, Daily NK has learned from sources in North Korea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA vehicle from North Hwanghae Province heading to a construction site in Samjiyon flipped over on a mountain road heading toward Hwajon-ryong (peak), Hyesan City, killing 21 people,\u201d said a Ryanggang province-based source on June 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cMen in the truck leaped out as the vehicle flipped over, but many women and children were killed in their seats.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The driver of the vehicle was heading toward the construction site with food and construction materials for workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hwajon Peak is the site of frequent traffic accidents and this most recent incident appears to be due to driver error. The incident was made more egregious because the driver appeared to have taken bribes to transport people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Included among those who were on the truck was the commander of the military force that protects Kim Jong Un\u2019s Samjiyon special residence and his fiance. They were riding the truck on the way to their engagement party. His fiance was killed immediately while he was reportedly severely injured. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe commander\u2019s parents were waiting for them to arrive at the engagement party,\u201d said the source. \u201cHe held his fiance\u2019s corpse and cried out that he would die along with her.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A separate source in Ryanggang Province who confirmed the incident added that despite the death of his fiance and severe injuries to his shoulders and legs, the commander called up the headquarters of Kim Jong Un\u2019s protective service in Samjiyon and alerted them to the accident. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protective service headquarters in Samjiyon reacted quickly to the news. They immediately alerted the Party committee in Ryanggang Province, and Ryanggang Province Party Chairman Ri Sang Won visited the accident site along with other Party officials. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were, however, no real measures that could be taken at the \u201cappallingly gruesome\u201d accident site. The Ryanggang Province Party chairman could do little but report the accident to his superiors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim Jong Un reportedly became enraged upon hearing of the incident, after learning that drivers of state-owned vehicles were receiving bribes to transport people and goods, in a system long-known as \u201cservi-cha.\u201d The practice is now so widespread that it is no longer the target of crackdowns and is considered akin to a public-private venture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKim Jong Un ordered that all privately-run companies taking bribes to transport people illegally were to be completely shut down and that those who were found to have taken money should be immediately punished,&#8221; the additional source explained.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the servi-cha system is such an integral component of North Korea\u2019s logistics and transportation infrastructure that such rhetoric is unlikely to materialize into anything actionable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim Jong Un also reportedly ordered that the state would bear the costs of the victims\u2019 funerals in a gesture to show affection toward those who were killed, but which both sources see <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a bid to increase his own stature as the leader of a \u201cnormal state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cargo truck heading to a construction site in Samjiyon-gun, Ryanggang Province, rolled over on June 3, killing 21 people, Daily NK has learned from sources in North Korea. \u201cA vehicle from North Hwanghae Province heading to a construction site in Samjiyon flipped over on a mountain road heading toward Hwajon-ryong (peak), Hyesan City, killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":36352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36350","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 v28.8) - 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