{"id":48353,"date":"2021-04-29T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48353"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:21:46","slug":"north-korea-officials-cover-costs-reitred-military-officersholiday-meals-through-donations-ordinary-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-officials-cover-costs-reitred-military-officersholiday-meals-through-donations-ordinary-people\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean officials cover costs for retired military officers&#8217; holiday meals through &#8220;donations&#8221; from ordinary people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities reportedly hosted dinner parties for retired military officials and their spouses on Apr. 25, the date formerly celebrated as \u201cMilitary Foundation Day.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event took place after the authorities supplied some retired military officials with one kilogram of pork per person in recognition of Kim Il Sung\u2019s birthday on Apr. 15. These \u201cgifts\u201d appear to show that the authorities are increasingly interested in winning the favor of retired KPA personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter the Central Committee sent down instructions, the authorities held dinner parties for the retired veterans in every major city during the public holiday of Apr. 25,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Apr. 26. \u201cThe events in Chongjin took place at \u2018Chungamgak<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8217; while the festivities in Hoeryong took place at \u2018Hoeryonggwan.&#8217; Both parties started at noon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another source spotted similar events taking place in Yangang Province. He told Daily NK that \u201cthe retired military officials and their spouses received invitations to [dine at] \u2018Aprokgak\u2019 in Hyesan on Apr. 25\u201d and that \u201cthe tables were covered in all kinds of food and drinks. There was pork, eggs, bean sprouts, kimchi, blood sausage with \u2018plow horse\u2019 potato starch noodles, Hamhung cold noodles, rice cakes, and fruit, and also alcohol and beer.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43167\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ud0c4\uc0b0\ubb3c-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"soda\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ud0c4\uc0b0\ubb3c-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ud0c4\uc0b0\ubb3c-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ud0c4\uc0b0\ubb3c-696x557.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ud0c4\uc0b0\ubb3c-525x420.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/\ud0c4\uc0b0\ubb3c.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coca-cola-flavored beverages in a restaurant in Pyongyang. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities typically send retired military officials invitations to events like these during quinquennial anniversary years celebrating occasions such as 25, 40, or 60 years of the army\u2019s founding. However, since Apr. 25, 2021 marks only the 89th year since the 1932 founding of the Korean People\u2019s Revolutionary Army (the predecessor to the modern Korean People\u2019s Army), the authorities\u2019 decision to hold the events is unusual. The source said that it is also uncommon for the authorities to invite the retired military officials\u2019 spouses to attend the events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The events could be a strategy to win the loyalty of retired military officers, some of whom are \u201ctrue believers\u201d who still hold Kim Il Sung\u2019s &#8220;partisan struggle ideology&#8221; in their hearts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese dinner parties were the authorities\u2019 way of attempting to placate retired military officials who devoted themselves to the nation when the nation failed to protect their honor,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEveryone is happy about the [authorities\u2019] recent increase in interest towards retired military officials,\u201d the source continued. \u201cThere are rumors that the authorities will hold more events to show support for retired military officials during national and public holidays in the future, so there is excitement in the air.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it appears that the authorities covered the costs of the expensive meals by collecting funds from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or \u201cpeople\u2019s units.\u201d The source clarified that participants only had to donate a \u201cpaltry sum\u201d of KPW 1,000. Still, some criticized the authorities for collecting money for banquets from people who are barely scraping by in current economic conditions. They say that the dinner parties serve as evidence that the authorities are simply trying to save face by any means necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May of last year, the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly passed a decree to create a new public holiday. In the decree, the authorities denoted Apr. 25 as the date that Kim Il Sung organized the anti-Japanese guerilla army, declaring it a national holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 1978, when Kim Jong Il was still in power, until the sixth year of Kim Jong Un\u2019s rule in 2017, North Korea celebrated Apr. 25 as the founding date of the Korean People\u2019s Army. In 2018, North Korean authorities changed the holiday&#8217;s date to Feb. 8 because the modern Korean People\u2019s Army was founded on Feb. 8, 1948. <\/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\/%eb%b6%81%ed%95%9c-%ec%98%9b-%ea%b1%b4%ea%b5%b0%ec%a0%88%ec%97%90-%ec%a3%bc%eb%af%bc-%eb%8f%88-%eb%9c%af%ec%96%b4-%ec%a0%9c%eb%8c%80%ea%b5%b0%ea%b4%80-%eb%b6%80%eb%b6%80-%ec%8b%9d%ec%82%ac\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities reportedly hosted dinner parties for retired military officials and their spouses on Apr. 25, the date formerly celebrated as \u201cMilitary Foundation Day.\u201d\u00a0 The event took place after the authorities supplied some retired military officials with one kilogram of pork per person in recognition of Kim Il Sung\u2019s birthday on Apr. 15. 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