{"id":37690,"date":"2018-09-13T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=37690"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:22:40","slug":"north-korea-tightens-control-over-construction-material-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-tightens-control-over-construction-material-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea tightens control over construction material distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36948\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/\uae40\uc815\uc740-\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0\uc74d-\ud604\uc9c0\uc2dc\ucc303-696x418-e1532585967958.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/\uae40\uc815\uc740-\uc0bc\uc9c0\uc5f0\uc74d-\ud604\uc9c0\uc2dc\ucc303-696x418-e1532585967958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a construction site in Yanggang Province, Samjiyon County. Image: Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has launched a series of large construction projects across the country including new buildings on the streets of Pyongyang, as well as the modernization of Samjiyon and the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone. Meanwhile, North Korean officials have been focusing on both acquiring [new] construction materials and preventing illegal siphoning off of existing materials from construction sites. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supplies of steel beams, wood, cement and other construction materials have dwindled due to international sanctions and damage from floods. The North Korean authorities have been tightening security to prevent the theft of such construction materials, an issue the authorities have traditionally been more lax about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKangwon Province has suffered a lot of damage from flooding, including its railways, and the authorities are having trouble supplying enough construction materials to the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone,\u201d a Kangwon Province-based source told Daily NK on September 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Party has handed down an order calling for the \u2018strict punishment of those siphoning off construction materials from construction sites, which is where the war of confrontation with foreign forces is occurring, because these acts violate the orders of the Party.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe railway situation is bad because the trains stop and wait at every station. At night, railway officials and other individuals often band together to steal materials [from the trains],\u201d the source said. \u201cThe ministry in charge of construction materials in the Cabinet has warned that those who are not taking proper care to protect the materials will be punished.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At North Korean construction sites, soldiers from the military construction teams and members of construction \u201cshock troops\u201d commonly siphon off materials to sell to traders for food. After eating their lunches, construction workers are even said to fill their lunch boxes with cement powder to take away and sell. The source added that these crimes are difficult to prevent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State supplies of construction materials are almost non-existent and the government demands \u201cspeed battles\u201d to complete construction projects at a rapid pace. Given the situation, even project directors are ignoring acts of stealing by laborers who are often just trying to buy more food. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities have ordered stricter monitoring of construction sites in Samjiyon County, Ryanggang Province, where massive amounts of resources are being mobilized for modernization projects, along with project sites in Hyesan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMassive construction projects have continued for so long now that there have been many cases where even government officials are siphoning off state-owned materials for a profit,\u201d said a separate source in Ryanggang Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe 216 Division, which is managing the modernization projects in Samjiyon, are telling construction workers, soldiers from military construction teams and shock troops, that anyone, regardless of rank, caught stealing state assets will be severely punished.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These threats have reportedly had some consequences. An official tasked with receiving construction materials [at construction sites] and a police officer were arrested over the past week for stealing cement being sent to the construction site in Kalma, Kangwon Province. Another construction worker who stole nails from a construction site was caught by the site\u2019s project director and is now under investigation. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[The Party] has said that it plans to severely punish those who steal state-owned property &#8211; even if someone steals as little as a one-meter-long steel rod, a kilogram of cement, or one piece of equipment &#8211; and will also deploy more security forces to the sites. These security personnel, unlike project directors, have no personal relationships with the construction workers,\u201d said a separate source in Kangwon Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe Party will also likely ramp up monitoring of those in charge of receiving materials [at construction sites].\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has launched a series of large construction projects across the country including new buildings on the streets of Pyongyang, as well as the modernization of Samjiyon and the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone. 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