{"id":44898,"date":"2020-05-19T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T01:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44898"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:22:12","slug":"african-swine-fever-takes-toll-north-korean-pig-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/african-swine-fever-takes-toll-north-korean-pig-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"African Swine Fever takes its toll on N. Korean pig farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Swine Fever (ASF) has caused mass deaths of pigs at farms in South Hwanghae Province and North Hamgyong Province, leading the central government to take action to prevent further outbreaks, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLivestock disease[s] are spreading rapidly throughout the province,\u201d a South Hwanghae Province-based source told Daily NK on Monday. \u201cThe authorities have issued an order through the Cabinet that livestock disease control authorities send investigation teams made up of around 20 people to all the farms with outbreaks.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From early May, pigs at farms in Haeju and Anak County started issuing bloody froth from their snouts and mouths before collapsing onto the ground. Around 10 pigs in one pig pen died from the disease, setting off alarm bells among the country\u2019s livestock disease control authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were similar mass deaths at farms in North Hamgyong Province, including in Gyongsong and Musan counties and in Chongjin. These cases were immediately reported to the authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOn May 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued an order to the provincial, municipal and county people\u2019s committees to have disease control officials thoroughly disinfect and quarantine all livestock, cremate all deceased animals and submit reports on progress of the disease control process,\u201d a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have reportedly continued to emphasize that it is forbidden to consume the meat of the diseased livestock, in what appears to be a response to rumors saying that ASF and other infectious diseases affecting livestock are similar to the \u201ccommon cold\u201d &#8211; meaning, essentially, that eating the meat is safe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, despite orders from the North Korean government to cremate the infected livestock or to bury them alive, these directives have frequently been disregarded. North Koreans reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-markets-sell-asf-infected-meat\/\">sell infected meat<\/a> at local markets or butcher the meat themselves to eat at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities attribute the further spread of infectious diseases in part to the fact that when the infected pork is consumed at individual homes and the scraps are tossed, the scraps eventually wind up as animal feed, continuing the cycle of infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, the authorities have taken strong measures to monitor livestock farm workers, reasoning that they must be held responsible for ensuring that the diseased livestock are properly handled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe authorities are threatening that the theft of disease livestock [to sell at local markets or to eat] will be designated an act of treason, in the sense that such acts undermine the party\u2019s disease control measures,\u201d the source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/african-swine-fever-strikes-pigs-north-korean-livestock-farm\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last week that some 6,000 ducks, geese, pigs, goats and sheep died of infectious diseases at a livestock complex in Kangwon Province.<\/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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ED%99%A9%ED%95%B4%EB%82%A8%EB%8F%84%C2%B7%ED%95%A8%EA%B2%BD%EB%B6%81%EB%8F%84%EC%97%90%EC%84%9C-%EB%8F%BC%EC%A7%80-%ED%8F%90%EC%82%AC%EC%95%84%ED%94%84%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%B4%EB%8F%BC%EC%A7%80\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Swine Fever (ASF) has caused mass deaths of pigs at farms in South Hwanghae Province and North Hamgyong Province, leading the central government to take action to prevent further outbreaks, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cLivestock disease[s] are spreading rapidly throughout the province,\u201d a South Hwanghae Province-based source told Daily NK on Monday. \u201cThe authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":44899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[123,773,1096],"class_list":["post-44898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-farming","tag-north-hamgyong-province","tag-south-hwanghae-province"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>African Swine Fever takes its toll on N. 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