{"id":49184,"date":"2021-08-02T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49184"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T01:29:44","slug":"high-ranking-north-korean-military-official-executed-calling-kim-jong-un-special-order-unrealistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/high-ranking-north-korean-military-official-executed-calling-kim-jong-un-special-order-unrealistic\/","title":{"rendered":"High-ranking North Korean military official executed for calling Kim Jong Un&#8217;s special order &#8220;unrealistic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A high-ranking military cadre was reportedly executed for the crime of criticizing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s recent \u201cspecial order\u201d to supply food to the people as \u201cunrealistic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Korea told Daily NK on Wednesday the major general in charge of the logistics headquarters of Training Camp 815 was court-martialed and shot on July 18 after he criticized Kim\u2019s special order as \u201can order ignorant of reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-jong-un-special-order-includes-directives-address-electricity-running-water-shortages\/\">special order<\/a> called for the release of military stores of rice for public distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, people learned of the execution after the authorities sent a \u201cnotification\u201d to military officers ranked department head and above. Sent on July 22, the notification detailed recent examples of \u201cstern judgments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The notification said that after receiving the special order from the ruling party, the commander \u201cindiscreetly\u201d complained that \u201cmilitary granaries are facing more serious problems than the food [shortage] issue facing the people.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also reportedly said: \u201cIf they\u2019re going to squeeze us while remaining ignorant of the situation in lower-level rear areas, from where on earth are we going to produce all that rice, not sand from the river bed?\u201d By criticizing Kim\u2019s supposedly insufficient sense of reality, he basically became a \u201csectarian\u201d in the view of the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40528\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"North Korean soldiers in Sakju County, North Pyongan Province covid-19 facilities\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DSC01407.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean soldiers in Sakju County, North Pyongan Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By openly describing the events in the notification, the authorities apparently intend to spark fear and emphasize that \u201cthose who outright challenge party policy will receive no forgiveness, regardless of who they are.\u201d It also suggests that the authorities want to set straight conspicuously flagging military discipline, even with military rice stores empty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relatedly, Kim \u2014 who belatedly learned how bad things were with military stores of rice after the June 29 enlarged meeting of the politburo \u2014 ordered the punishment of high-ranking cadres in charge, while simultaneously instructing the military\u2019s Political Guidance Department and Military Security Command to inspect conditions in the low-level logistics units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, by punishing cadres, Kim seemingly intends to turn attention away from his own loss of face in ordering \u201cthree months of food provisions\u201d without first ascertaining the state of military food stocks. This means Kim plans to minimize risk by turning the situation into a political and ideological issue regarding the military\u2019s logistics commanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is talk of a \u201cbloodbath\u201d of purges and sackings in the name of \u201cdrawing out the ideological poison of military sectarianism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, hostility is reportedly rising within the military regarding such merciless punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldiers are reportedly asking how \u201cshooting logistics commanders and sending officers to political prison camps\u201d will resolve rice shortages, and whether leaders intend to label everyone \u201csectarians\u201d every time there is a problem because they issued an order ignorant of the situation on the ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding the joint investigation by the military\u2019s Political Guidance Department and Military Security Command, the source noted emerging criticism that stores of military supplies \u201chave been empty since the time of Kim Jong Il\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s a bigger problem that the government is starting to get a grip on conditions on the ground only now, 10 years after Kim Jong Un took power.\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\/20210728-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-ranking military cadre was reportedly executed for the crime of criticizing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s recent \u201cspecial order\u201d to supply food to the people as \u201cunrealistic.\u201d A source in North Korea told Daily NK on Wednesday the major general in charge of the logistics headquarters of Training Camp 815 was court-martialed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":42324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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