{"id":45613,"date":"2020-07-14T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45613"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:36:34","slug":"north-korea-again-highlights-importance-autonomy-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-again-highlights-importance-autonomy-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea again highlights importance of &#8220;autonomy&#8221; to businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities recently ordered factories and other businesses to ensure they are implementing the country\u2019s own \u201ceconomic management system,\u201d Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt the end of June, the government issued an order to relevant factories and companies in all sectors of the economy to implement the new \u2018Economic Management System in Our Style,\u2019\u201d a source in Ryanggang Province told Daily NK on July 8.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since gaining power, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has granted greater autonomy to collective farms, factories and other businesses with a view to boost productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These efforts, however, have reportedly failed to produce satisfactory results due to unfavorable conditions both at home and abroad. Now that trade has come to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year, the country faces production-related difficulties across its entire economy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response, North Korean authorities have once again highlighted the importance of autonomy in business operations, encouraging \u201cproduction units\u201d to take responsibility to \u201cachieve results.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK\u2019s source said that the recent order emphasized that all businesses will be free to decide what to do with all \u201cexcess goods\u201d they produce on top of state-set quotas from July 1 to Apr. 15, 2022 &#8211; the 110th anniversary of Kim Il Sung\u2019s birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The order stipulates that businesses should \u201cpay\u201d their employees a monthly stipend with the \u201cexcess goods\u201d produced based on the number of hours worked and their \u201cachievements.\u201d The order also encouraged businesses to provide workers who work well in \u201cspecial environments\u201d or to improve their skills with bonuses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities instructed people\u2019s committees to work in partnership with party committees to submit proposals aimed at carrying out these orders by June 27. They also ordered that the proposals should be implemented between July 1 and July 5 following their approval.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While business managers acknowledge the excellence of the new economic management system, they question whether it is reasonable in light of production difficulties caused by a lack of materials and electricity. They believe the government does not realize that state action must come first, the source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWorkers are also skeptical, saying that the government is effectively telling everyone to be self-sufficient, but the era of surviving with one\u2019s own bare fists is over,\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cThey are complaining that with no money and no strength, a national plan alone can\u2019t produce [results] out of thin air, and it\u2019s impossible for people to embrace the spirit of sharing with others in such difficult circumstances.\u201d<\/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\/%E5%8C%97-%EA%B3%B5%EC%9E%A5%C2%B7%EA%B8%B0%EC%97%85%EC%86%8C%EC%97%90-%EC%9A%B0%EB%A6%AC%EC%8B%9D%EC%9D%98-%EA%B2%BD%EC%A0%9C%EA%B4%80%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%B4%EA%B3%84-%EC%A0%95%EC%83%81%ED%99%94\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities recently ordered factories and other businesses to ensure they are implementing the country\u2019s own \u201ceconomic management system,\u201d Daily NK has learned. \u201cAt the end of June, the government issued an order to relevant factories and companies in all sectors of the economy to implement the new \u2018Economic Management System in Our Style,\u2019\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":45614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[714],"class_list":["post-45613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy","tag-economy"],"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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