{"id":46950,"date":"2020-11-12T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=46950"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:49:26","slug":"kim-jong-un-hands-out-gifts-residents-hwadae-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-jong-un-hands-out-gifts-residents-hwadae-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un hands out gifts to residents of Hwadae County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gifts from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were distributed in early November to residents of Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province, which was recently battered by typhoons, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that \u201cgifts from the Supreme Leader\u201d of kitchen utensils and other items to Hwadae County arrived on Nov. 1, but the distribution of the gifts &#8211; carried out by the provincial and county party organizations &#8211; \u201cearned the displeasure of local residents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, households affected by the typhoon were to receive a gift set with two blankets, a bowl, toilet paper and a TV set, most of which were made in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cadres from the national party as well as workers from the provincial and county party organizations of North Hamgyong Province and Hwadae County distributed the gifts to locals, but not all families impacted by the typhoons received them. Only certain households approved by the provincial and county party organizations received the gifts, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the gifts were not distributed to households as complete sets but as individual items based on a \u201cgift accounting list.\u201d The source explained that the \u201chouseholds were divided into those with televisions, those with toilet paper, those with clothing and those with kitchenware, and they received only the items they needed. But the items were distributed with priority placed on enthusiastic party members or workers, so many of the households impacted by the typhoon did not receive gifts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43384\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011.jpg\" alt=\"bakery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, taken in February 2018. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local residents reportedly displayed a great deal of resentment with their treatment by provincial and county party officials, with some complaining, for example, that \u201cthe Supreme Leader [Kim Jong Un] mustn\u2019t have told people to discriminate when giving out the gifts when he sent it, but the people working underneath him are discriminating when sharing the love of the Supreme Leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source noted that large items such as the televisions were taken almost entirely by county and village cadres, adding, \u201cThe leadership who sent the gifts has no idea of the situation on-the-ground, and the gifts just made ordinary people really unhappy since they didn\u2019t get their share.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A growing number of residents in Hwadae County are lamenting the fact that they are unable to acquire food because local farms suffered immense damage due to recent typhoons, the source further reported. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20201109-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gifts from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were distributed in early November to residents of Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province, which was recently battered by typhoons, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that \u201cgifts from the Supreme Leader\u201d of kitchen utensils and other items to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":43969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[724,773,1324],"class_list":["post-46950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-hamgyong-province","tag-gifts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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