{"id":43047,"date":"2019-12-03T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=43047"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:38:17","slug":"electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity quota violators face punishment in North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities are publicly denouncing and punishing people who use more electricity than they\u2019re allotted, Daily NK has learned. This was confirmed by sources from South Pyongan Province on Thursday: \u201cIndividuals and energy managers of enterprises have recently been punished for their profligacy of electricity,\u201d one of them said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite increased efforts to save electricity, North Korea is currently suffering a severe power shortage. The government has established strict limits on electricity consumption as a countermeasure, to which all North Koreans have to adhere &#8211; otherwise, they\u2019ll face severe consequences, according to the sources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRegulations on electricity consumption have become even stricter,\u201d one of the sources explained. Apparently, \u201cseveral managers were demoted or laid off, or sent to labor camps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such harsh punishments like job terminations and labor camp sentences illustrate how seriously the North Korean authorities are about enforcing their power regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STATE-LED DENUNCIATIONS OF VIOLATORS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the sources, the South Pyongan Province\u2019s Party Committee is openly denouncing both individuals and enterprises for violating the regulations. Among them: the Sunchon Pharmaceutical Factory, the Moranbong Clock Factory, the Pyongsong Synthetic<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leather Factory, and the Ponghak Food Factory. \u201cThey were publicly named and criticized,\u201d the source reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign also reportedly stressed the importance of adhering to the electricity restriction at all times. \u201cIt made it clear that saving electricity is not just some practical matter,\u201d one source told Daily NK. Rather, \u201cit demanded we stick to the austerity measures because they\u2019re a party policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, an article in the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Sept. 29 claimed that \u201c10% of saved electricity has a greater economic effect and costs much less than producing the same amount.\u201d Hence, it concluded, saving as much power as possible was the way to go in order to resolve the current shortage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the paper, North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un encouraged his people to \u201cexert themselves\u201d in their efforts to save electricity. He allegedly stated: \u201cEvery watt counts in fighting the electricity crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ELECTRICITY TROUBLES EQUAL PRODUCTION LOSSES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s industrial sector, however, can hardly cope with the below standard allowance of power. As generalized allotments of power will naturally lead to production failures, North Korea will have to figure out a way to keep its restrictions on electricity without jeopardizing all of its domestic industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sunchon Pharmaceutical Factory and the Moranbong Clock Factory, for example, were already unable to operate normally due to the electricity shortages and thus experienced major production losses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And not only the industry struggles to adapt to the regime\u2019s new power regulations &#8211; North Korean citizens, too, feel the state needs to take a different approach in order to save energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard enough for us to survive and telling us to reduce our electricity consumption only puts more pressure on us,\u201d a source reported on the current situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWealthier citizens have at least the option to install solar panels and produce their own electricity. But that\u2019s difficult for those who can\u2019t have enough money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim and edited by Laura Geigenberger<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities are publicly denouncing and punishing people who use more electricity than they\u2019re allotted, Daily NK has learned. This was confirmed by sources from South Pyongan Province on Thursday: \u201cIndividuals and energy managers of enterprises have recently been punished for their profligacy of electricity,\u201d one of them said.\u00a0 Despite increased efforts to save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":42770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[295,1002],"class_list":["post-43047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-electricity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electricity quota violators face punishment in North Korea - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"North Korean authorities are publicly denouncing and punishing people who use more electricity than they\u2019re allotted, Daily NK has learned.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electricity quota violators face punishment in North Korea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"North Korean authorities are publicly denouncing and punishing people who use more electricity than they\u2019re allotted, Daily NK has learned.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-03T09:00:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-05T06:38:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\ud765\ub0a8\ube44\ub8cc\uc5f0\ud569\uae30\uc5c5\uc18c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"528\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Seulkee Jang\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Seulkee Jang\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Seulkee Jang\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/194958ce83d17408851c1d378fa83857\"},\"headline\":\"Electricity quota violators face punishment in North Korea\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-03T09:00:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-05T06:38:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":539,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/\ud765\ub0a8\ube44\ub8cc\uc5f0\ud569\uae30\uc5c5\uc18c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"crime\",\"electricity\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/electricity-quota-violators-face-punishment-north-korea\\\/\",\"name\":\"Electricity quota violators face punishment in North Korea - 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