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The heads of these new facilities are political officers attached to each military unit. These officers have been designated the heads of the hospitals because Kim Jong Un reportedly commented that \u201cThe Korean People\u2019s Army can only protect the country if they eat enough. Party committees and political officers in each military corps and supreme military command headquarters must take responsibility to fix this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Political officers are also charged with resolving the military\u2019s food supply problems. According to the source, \u201cthe families of political officers are taking turns supplying rabbits, pigs, lambs and chickens raised at home to the soldiers [for food].\u201d<\/p>\n
The source also noted that political officers are expected to take care of the soldiers under their charge even after the military’s food problems get better.<\/p>\n
Some relatives of these political officers are complaining that the task of beating beat back malnutrition is being \u201ccompletely thrown at our feet,\u201d and are expressing frustration that they have to give away animals that they could instead sell for money.<\/p>\n
Perhaps in consideration of such complaints, the military’s General Political Bureau has announced it will conduct evaluations of how well each unit beats back malnutrition by Oct. 10 (the day commemorating the founding of the Worker\u2019s Party of Korea).<\/p>\n
Daily NK\u2019s source said there are already military units that have received punishment for failing to lower malnutrition rates. The commanders of logistics units at the First Corps, Second Corps, and Fifth Corps, along with other logistics officers at military training facilities, have been removed from their positions as punishment.<\/p>\n