{"id":37098,"date":"2018-08-06T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T04:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=37098"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:22:55","slug":"export-sanctions-lead-to-hard-times-for-those-in-coal-producing-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/export-sanctions-lead-to-hard-times-for-those-in-coal-producing-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Export sanctions lead to hard times for those in coal-producing regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37100\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180605_143508845-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180605_143508845-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180605_143508845-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180605_143508845-696x522-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180605_143508845-696x522-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180605_143508845-696x522-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coal piled up in Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province. Image: Daily NK (taken in early August 2081)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As coal exports have slowed to a crawl due to international sanctions, North Korea\u2019s coal country of Kaechon, South Pyongan Province, and Kujang County, North Pyongan Province, have been suffering under intense economic difficulties. Most residents in these areas were dependent on the export of coal and are directly feeling the effects of the trade stagnation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen coal was being exported, it went for up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/market-trends\/\">130,000 KPW (~16 US dollars)<\/a> a ton, but now due to the sanctions the price has fallen to 50,000 KPW (~6 US dollars) a ton [&#8230;] The coal must be sold for workers to get paid. The halt in \u00a0exports has even led to someone starving to death,\u201d said Kim Woo Chul (alias, male resident of Kujang County), who was traveling in China on August 1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn April or May this year a fifty-year-old man died of starvation,\u201d he said, nothing that while corn is provided by the government in July and August, \u201cit lasts for less than two months.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim also said that rice is being sold in the market but most people in the region can\u2019t afford it. \u201cFood is not scarce in the Kim Jong Un era, but people have no money so they can\u2019t buy it,\u201d he emphasized. Kim also noted that there were many empty food stands at the markets because demand has fallen due to the lack of money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another resident from Kaechon, South Pyongan Province, named Ri Sung Rim (alias) added, \u201cThere is a lot of rice at the markets, and people would buy it if they had money, but they don\u2019t have money because coal is not being sold anymore [&#8230;] People who ran private businesses selling coal are having a particularly bad time and are starving because they can\u2019t even make corn porridge.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She explained that a small amount of corn is given to those actually producing coal by the state, but teams that are not producing anything receive no food rations. \u201cThey have nothing to eat so there are even people who are taking their children and leaving the region,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two interviewees also talked about the chronic electricity shortages in North Korea. While Pyongyang and other major cities are supplied with a relatively steady supply, the rural areas receive very little. People cannot watch television because of the lack of electricity, which means that many in these areas only recently found out that Kim Jong Un had met with the leaders of South Korea and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cElectricity is only supplied for an hour or less in Pyongsong, while those who are wealthy siphon off electricity from factories or use car batteries,\u201d said Kim. \u201cSome of the wealthier people use car batteries to watch KCNA on television sets, but most cannot afford that.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cProduction teams get electricity, but residents don\u2019t get electricity in their homes [&#8230;] Car batteries need to be recharged to supply electricity at home, but there are no places to recharge them. People get them recharged if they know someone at the factories, but they are out of luck otherwise,\u201d Ri said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI only found out about Chairman Kim Jong Un visiting China when I visited the country [&#8230;] People need electricity to see the news and, since they can\u2019t, they don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As coal exports have slowed to a crawl due to international sanctions, North Korea\u2019s coal country of Kaechon, South Pyongan Province, and Kujang County, North Pyongan Province, have been suffering under intense economic difficulties. 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