{"id":47477,"date":"2021-01-18T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47477"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:32","slug":"north-korean-authorities-in-onsong-county-order-people-to-eradicate-street-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-authorities-in-onsong-county-order-people-to-eradicate-street-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean authorities in Onsong County order people to &#8220;eradicate street cats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As North Korea\u2019s excessive measures in response to COVID-19 continue into the new year, authorities in Onsong County have recently issued an extraordinary order to \u201ceradicate street cats,&#8221; according to a source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a telephone conversation with Daily NK on Thursday, a source in North Hamgyong Province said authorities ordered residents of Onsong County on Dec. 9 to eliminate street cats. Local authorities explained that the measure was \u201cto prevent coronavirus [from entering] through animals coming over from China,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea deployed the so-called Storm Corps (11th Corps) and Seventh Corps to the Sino-North Korean border last June. In August, the Ministry of Social Security proclaimed that people or animals illegally entering the buffer zone between North Korea and China would be \u201cfired upon\u201d without warning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities fully mobilized all methods at their disposal to stop COVID-19 from entering the country last year, deploying the military to the border and even firing shots at illegal border crossers.\u00a0<\/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;\">North Korea\u2019s hardline response is continuing into the new year. Local residents of Pochon County, Yanggang Province, spotted soldiers shooting at birds flying in from China on Jan. 2. There has even been an instance of someone being shot to death by soldiers as they strolled along the border looking for food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow they are forcing even local residents to kill animals,\u201d said the source. \u201cThey are also spreading [the idea] that cats coming from China could carry the coronavirus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A growing number of people are expressing outrage over these \u201cnever-ending\u201d orders to \u201ckill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Koreans are also criticizing the order as \u201cirrational,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some locals have even taken to sarcasm, darkly noting that while \u201canimals can\u2019t talk, they know where there are lots of things to eat,\u201d and are asking why cats would even come to North Korea because \u201cthere\u2019s not even enough food for people\u201d to eat.<\/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\/%eb%b6%81%ed%95%9c%ec%9d%98-%ec%bd%94%eb%a1%9c%eb%82%98-%ea%b3%bc%ec%9e%89-%eb%b0%a9%ec%97%ad-%ec%96%b4%eb%94%94%ea%b9%8c%ec%a7%80-%ea%b8%b8%ea%b3%a0%ec%96%91%ec%9d%b4-%eb%8b%a4-%ec%97%86\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As North Korea\u2019s excessive measures in response to COVID-19 continue into the new year, authorities in Onsong County have recently issued an extraordinary order to \u201ceradicate street cats,&#8221; according to a source.\u00a0 In a telephone conversation with Daily NK on Thursday, a source in North Hamgyong Province said authorities ordered residents of Onsong County on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":41868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47477","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 v28.1) - 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