{"id":45534,"date":"2020-07-06T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45534"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:00:18","slug":"north-korea-cracks-down-illegal-registration-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-cracks-down-illegal-registration-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea cracks down on illegal registration of vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has recently begun to crack down on people who have illegally registered their vehicles, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn line with the increasing number of North Koreans who own private vehicles, the government issued an order on June 12 related to strengthening controls over such vehicles,\u201d a source from North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on July 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, there has been an increase in the number of merchants who illegally register privately-owned vehicles at an organization or businesses and earn money through their vehicles as a form of \u201cAug. 3 earnings\u201d (the practice of paying a certain amount of money to an organization or business in order to engage in unofficial economic activity elsewhere).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have labeled this practice \u201can unusual phenomenon that does not align with socialism\u201d and stressed the need to come up with urgent measures to address the situation, the source noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities have placed the Ministry of Social Security in charge of forming a task force to have Ministry of State Security No. 10 checkpoints, which inspect and search vehicles traveling on major roads, clamp down on privately-owned vehicles. Guards have been specifically instructed to immediately confiscate any vehicle deemed illegal and return it to the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities are demanding detailed investigations into how individuals came to acquire their vehicles and their motivations for doing so. The purpose of this order is to ascertain the origin of vehicles smuggled into North Korea across the border, while also bringing to light illegal acts such as forging government documents related to vehicle registration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have also reportedly ordered provincial party committees to summon party officials and those who oversaw the issuance of license plate numbers for privately-owned vehicles at state agencies to prevent such behavior from happening again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany organizations and businesses have been earning money from individuals engaged in \u2018Aug. 3 earnings schemes\u2019 and are using these funds to pay management fees or support national construction projects, so the decision to criminalize and crack down on this practice is giving them a headache,\u201d the source told Daily NK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Koreans earning money through privately-owned vehicles are complaining about the government making their lives more difficult after all the trouble they went through to buy a car,\u201d the source added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have also ordered that old diesel vehicles used by organizations and businesses must be scrapped, and are moving to prohibit charcoal-powered vehicles from driving off of official roads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many North Koreans believe, however, that now is not the right time to implement such measures because suddenly doing away with diesel vehicles could cause disruptions to factory production. <\/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\/%EC%B0%A8%E8%BB%8A-%EB%B2%8C%EC%9D%B4-%EC%9E%A5%EC%82%AC%EA%BE%BC-%EB%8A%98%EC%9E%90-%EB%B6%88%EB%B2%95-%EA%B0%9C%EC%9D%B8%EC%86%8C%EC%9C%A0-%EC%B0%A8%EB%9F%89-%EB%8B%A8%EC%86%8D%ED%95%98\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has recently begun to crack down on people who have illegally registered their vehicles, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cIn line with the increasing number of North Koreans who own private vehicles, the government issued an order on June 12 related to strengthening controls over such vehicles,\u201d a source from North Hamgyong Province told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":38149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45534","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 v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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