{"id":44481,"date":"2020-04-20T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44481"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:10:34","slug":"pyongyang-hospital-construction-workers-stealing-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/pyongyang-hospital-construction-workers-stealing-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang hospital construction workers stealing to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Low-ranking soldiers have been stealing food from homes near the Pyongyang General Hospital construction site in Pyongyang\u2019s Munhung District, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSoldiers from Construction Bureau 8 and the Hero Guard Corps working on the construction have been breaking into homes and stealing rice cookers, electronics and, of course, food,\u201d a Pyongyang-based source told Daily NK on Apr. 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldiers typically break into the apartments after 1 AM and reportedly scale exterior walls using hooks they latch onto apartment railings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The soldiers prefer homes that are vacant or have only one occupant. Daily NK sources reported, however, that there was an instance where assailants entered a house and got into a fight with the apartment&#8217;s six occupants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locals have even claimed that soldiers have used \u201cgas\u201d used for training purposes to stun apartment dwellers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe soldiers will spray a special gas in the house. People aren\u2019t knocked out, but are unable to move and have to watch the soldiers steal their stuff,\u201d one source in the city said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldiers are stealing because they are not receiving enough food from their superiors, Daily NK sources reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe authorities consider construction of the Pyongyang General Hospital their top priority right now,\u201d another source told Daily NK. \u201cBut it seems like the food being sent to the construction for the workers isn\u2019t actually making it to them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK sources speculated that most of the food is being taken by higher-level military officials. These officials will often order their subordinates to \u201cacquire\u201d food and other supplies.<\/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@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ED%8F%89%EC%96%91%EC%A2%85%ED%95%A9%EB%B3%91%EC%9B%90-%EA%B1%B4%EC%84%A4%EA%B5%B0%EC%9D%B8-%ED%98%84%EC%A7%80%EC%84%9C-%EC%A0%88%EB%8F%84%ED%96%89%EA%B0%81-%EC%A7%80%EC%9B%90%EB%AC%BC\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-ranking soldiers have been stealing food from homes near the Pyongyang General Hospital construction site in Pyongyang\u2019s Munhung District, Daily NK has learned. \u201cSoldiers from Construction Bureau 8 and the Hero Guard Corps working on the construction have been breaking into homes and stealing rice cookers, electronics and, of course, food,\u201d a Pyongyang-based source told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":44482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,646],"tags":[691,737,140,295],"class_list":["post-44481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-military","tag-military","tag-public-health","tag-construction","tag-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - 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