{"id":42571,"date":"2019-10-24T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=42571"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:49:42","slug":"elderly-north-koreans-increasingly-turn-begging-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/elderly-north-koreans-increasingly-turn-begging-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly North Koreans increasingly turn to begging to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of North Korean elderly who wander around looking for food and begging is on the rise, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean senior citizens who have no children to rely on in a difficult economic situation are roaming around begging, Daily NK sources explained on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are many elderly beggars,\u201d a Pyongyang-based source told Daily NK. \u201cMost of them have homes, but they have nothing to eat at home, and no children to bring them rice, so they literally will forage for food in the wild.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven if they have homes, beggars are beggars, and everyone in the village knows that they are poor,\u201d continued the source. \u201cAt the same time, they are not dusty or dirty. They look elderly and thin, but clean overall.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are also an increasing number of such elderly beggars who come into Pyongyang from other regions, Daily NK sources said. These beggars sneak into Pyongyang, taking a detour to avoid the \u201cNo. 10 checkpoints\u201d (Ministry of State Security checkpoints). These checkpoints are at various entrances to Pyongyang as well as at the entrances to every major city in North Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAdmitting that there are beggars in Pyongyang is a source of shame for local neighborhoods, which is why people try to keep quiet about it. It\u2019s a lie, though, to say that Pyongyang doesn\u2019t have beggars,\u201d one of the sources said. \u201cThe beggars from the provinces sneak around the No. 10 checkpoints to come into Pyongyang, and because people here aren\u2019t hardhearted, they will give them bread if nothing else. Beggars who come into Pyongyang and have a taste of life there will never go back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These itinerant beggars gather where there are lots of people or at factories during working times. When people are done eating they will toss the leftovers to the elderly beggars, who will line up as though at a food distribution center, according to the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor example, when families and friends gather and cook meat on a metal sheet over a gas stove, and there\u2019s some left, the beggar will come and snap it right up,\u201d said the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, North Korean state authorities have reportedly grown more lax about regulating beggars, young and old. Not only is it costly to round up beggars and send them back to the provinces to detention centers, the beggars have only been known to escape, rendering most attempts at regulation ineffective, explained Daily NK sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPolice officers will sometimes take these beggars away, but even after they do that, they\u2019ll let them go after a certain period of time,\u201d one Daily NK source said. \u201cIf the officers want to send them back to the provinces, they have to be responsible for getting fuel for their cars, so these days they just leave them alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@gmail.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of North Korean elderly who wander around looking for food and begging is on the rise, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 North Korean senior citizens who have no children to rely on in a difficult economic situation are roaming around begging, Daily NK sources explained on Tuesday. \u201cThere are many elderly beggars,\u201d a Pyongyang-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":42572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - 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