{"id":45363,"date":"2020-06-19T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45363"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:16:48","slug":"vinyl-film-theft-kaesong-farm-leads-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/vinyl-film-theft-kaesong-farm-leads-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl film theft at Kaesong farm leads to investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean security officials are investigating an incident in Kaesong involving the theft of vinyl film from a collective farm, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFour seedbeds of rice seedlings withered away and died early this month at the Sihung Collective Farm in Panmun County, just before the planting season,\u201d a source in Kaesong told Daily NK on June 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLocal security officials are investigating the incident along with municipal party officials and the local rural management committee,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source explained that the farm had been conducting patrols to keep an eye on the seedbeds given the government&#8217;s emphasis on increasing agricultural productivity at all costs. Farm managers found the withered away seedbeds with their vinyl film coverings missing during the night of June 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigators were sent to the farm the next day and they concluded that the vinyl film coverings had been torn away with a sharp object &#8211; possibly a nail &#8211; before being carried away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dead seedlings were ultimately thrown away because they could not be planted in the fields, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVinyl film is scarce and expensive in North Korea, which means the material has been the target of robberies,\u201d the source explained. \u201cIt\u2019s rare to see the material stolen from seedbeds just before the planting season because that\u2019s considered as bad as spying or committing an act of espionage or assassination. The government also deems such behavior reactionary.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigators have been trying their best to figure out the whereabouts of the missing vinyl film, but they have not come up with any clues, the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The local Ministry of State Security office recently held a lecture for farmers and other locals, telling them that stealing vinyl film is what spies from South Korea do. \u201cEveryone must be alert and report any suspicious incidents immediately,\u201d the lecturer reportedly said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe farm has created teams of two to monitor the seedbeds until the planting season is over,\u201d the Kaesong-based source said, adding, \u201cLocal security officers are also conducting frequent patrols around the farm, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodong Sinmun reported on June 9 that the country has completed \u201cover 90%\u201d of the planting for this year.<\/span><\/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\/%EB%B9%84%EB%8B%90%EB%B0%95%EB%A7%89-%EC%82%AC%EB%9D%BC%EC%A0%B8-%EB%B3%8F%EB%AA%A8-%EC%8B%9C%EB%93%A4%EC%9E%90-%EB%B3%B4%EC%9C%84%EB%B6%80%C2%B7%EB%B3%B4%EC%95%88%EC%84%9C%EA%B9%8C%EC%A7%80\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean security officials are investigating an incident in Kaesong involving the theft of vinyl film from a collective farm, Daily NK has learned. \u201cFour seedbeds of rice seedlings withered away and died early this month at the Sihung Collective Farm in Panmun County, just before the planting season,\u201d a source in Kaesong told Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":45364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,869],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-45363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-agriculture","tag-farming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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