{"id":48320,"date":"2021-04-26T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48320"},"modified":"2021-04-26T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T07:27:32","slug":"north-korean-authorities-initiate-cleanup-operation-street-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-authorities-initiate-cleanup-operation-street-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean authorities initiate &#8220;cleanup operation&#8221; of street vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source, the North Korean authorities have initiated a \u201ccleanup operation\u201d targeting people who conduct business on streets and are taking them to forced labor camps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can be seen as a follow-up measure to the recent seizure of goods sold by \u201cgrasshopper\u201d traders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Apr. 22 that \u201cHyesan\u2019s Ministry of Social Security has been conducting a major crackdown on street vendors since Apr. 12\u201d and that \u201c23 street vendors were taken to forced labor camps in the period between Apr. 17 and Apr. 19 alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As enforcement of laws against unofficial trade ramps up, the authorities have seized street vendors and rickshaw drivers who went to the street to start their day\u2019s work and dragged them off to forced labor camps.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41618\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Street market in Hyesan, Ryanggang Province rice sellers dollar rate\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/6-min.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this undated photograph, North Koreans are seen peddling goods at a street market in Hyesan, Yanggang Province \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the authorities received orders to eliminate &#8220;anti-socialist&#8221; behavior at the Sixth Conference of Cell Secretaries earlier this month, the frequency and intensity of crackdowns on street vendors have reportedly increased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law enforcement authorities appear to be choosing to arrest street vendors and rickshaw drivers because of their vulnerable social status. The vendors lack the social capital to fight back, and local authorities can point to the vendors\u2019 arrests as evidence of their own efforts to enforce the directive given at the cell secretaries\u2019 conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forced labor camps typically house prisoners serving sentences between six months and one years, along with those sentenced by prosecutor\u2019s offices to perform labor for up to six months. However, the authorities are reportedly not following these legal procedures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe street vendors and rickshaw drivers are the ones with the most difficult lives,\u201d the source said. \u201cIf you tell people to blindly report to a workplace where they get zero rations or money, what are they supposed to eat? The authorities are just sending people to their death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMinistry of Social Security officers and labor disciplinary unit officers are hell-bent on putting people in forced labor camps,\u201d the source added. \u201cLife in the camps is tough, but the bigger problem is that [even after they are released, the vendors] will have no way to make money in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by S &amp; J<\/em><\/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\/20210422-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Daily NK source, the North Korean authorities have initiated a \u201ccleanup operation\u201d targeting people who conduct business on streets and are taking them to forced labor camps.\u00a0 This can be seen as a follow-up measure to the recent seizure of goods sold by \u201cgrasshopper\u201d traders.\u00a0 A source in Yanggang Province told Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":36538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48320","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>North Korean authorities initiate &quot;cleanup operation&quot; 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