{"id":47509,"date":"2021-01-21T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47509"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:22:15","slug":"hospital-fire-broke-out-hyesan-january-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/hospital-fire-broke-out-hyesan-january-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A hospital fire broke out in Hyesan on January 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK yesterday that a fire broke out at People\u2019s Hospital No. 2 in Songbong District, Hyesan, on Jan. 7. Nobody was hurt or wounded, but \u201calmost all the medical equipment was burnt up,&#8221; according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities had declared a \u201cspecial patrol period\u201d (initially to Jan. 15, later extended to the end of the month) in regions along the Sino-North Korean border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial Ministry of Social Security conducted an investigation into the blaze, rounding up everyone involved in the incident, and quickly discovered the cause of the fire. Electricity had been provided to the hospital during the party congress period, but carelessness on the part of a worker at the hospital led to the incident.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigators, however, are continuing to investigate the fire, claiming \u201chidden impure elements intentionally started the fire to ruin the party congress.\u201d This is a typical ploy to promote internal unity by turning simple accidents into political issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43741\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\uc2e0\uc885\ucf54\ub85c\ub098\ub300\uc751\ub17c\uc758\ud558\ub294\uc2e0\uc758\uc8fc\uc2dc\uc885\ud569\uc9c4\ub8cc\uc18c.jpg\" alt=\"disease control kimchi typhoid labor\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\uc2e0\uc885\ucf54\ub85c\ub098\ub300\uc751\ub17c\uc758\ud558\ub294\uc2e0\uc758\uc8fc\uc2dc\uc885\ud569\uc9c4\ub8cc\uc18c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\uc2e0\uc885\ucf54\ub85c\ub098\ub300\uc751\ub17c\uc758\ud558\ub294\uc2e0\uc758\uc8fc\uc2dc\uc885\ud569\uc9c4\ub8cc\uc18c-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\uc2e0\uc885\ucf54\ub85c\ub098\ub300\uc751\ub17c\uc758\ud558\ub294\uc2e0\uc758\uc8fc\uc2dc\uc885\ud569\uc9c4\ub8cc\uc18c-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\uc2e0\uc885\ucf54\ub85c\ub098\ub300\uc751\ub17c\uc758\ud558\ub294\uc2e0\uc758\uc8fc\uc2dc\uc885\ud569\uc9c4\ub8cc\uc18c-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\uc2e0\uc885\ucf54\ub85c\ub098\ub300\uc751\ub17c\uc758\ud558\ub294\uc2e0\uc758\uc8fc\uc2dc\uc885\ud569\uc9c4\ub8cc\uc18c-668x420.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doctors at a hospital in Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province, discussing ways to deal with ways to deal with the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. \/ Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities have also ordered residents to contribute money and valuables or labor to the restoration efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said locals are dumbfounded by the government\u2019s order. \u201cEveryone is complaining that they\u2019ve been ordered to contribute when they\u2019re [already] having a tough time even surviving day-to-day because of the coronavirus,&#8221; the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opposition to the order appears particularly strong because North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke of eradicating \u201cthe imposition of extra economic burdens on the people\u201d during the Eighth Party Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his closing address to the Eighth Party Congress on Jan. 12, the North Korean leader stated: \u201cWe must give precedence to vigorous education and strict discipline in the entire Party and the whole country and amongst all the people, so as to staunchly suppress and control all forms of anti-socialist, non-socialist practices revealed in all fields of social life and all sorts of criminal acts such as the abuse of power, bureaucratism, corruption and imposition of extra economic burdens on the people.\u201d<\/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\/%e9%bb%a8%eb%8c%80%ed%9a%8c-%ea%b8%b0%ea%b0%84-%eb%b3%91%ec%9b%90-%ed%99%94%ec%9e%ac-%ea%b9%80%ec%a0%95%ec%9d%80-%ec%a7%80%ec%a0%81-%ec%84%b8%ec%99%b8%eb%b6%80%eb%8b%b4-%eb%ac%b8\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK yesterday that a fire broke out at People\u2019s Hospital No. 2 in Songbong District, Hyesan, on Jan. 7. Nobody was hurt or wounded, but \u201calmost all the medical equipment was burnt up,&#8221; according to the source.\u00a0 North Korean authorities had declared a \u201cspecial patrol period\u201d (initially to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":43849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47509","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A hospital fire broke out in Hyesan on January 7 - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/hospital-fire-broke-out-hyesan-january-7\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A hospital fire broke out in Hyesan on January 7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK yesterday that a fire broke out at People\u2019s Hospital No. 2 in Songbong District, Hyesan, on Jan. 7. 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