{"id":49223,"date":"2021-08-05T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49223"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:47:22","slug":"north-korea-supplies-second-round-provisions-families-facing-food-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-supplies-second-round-provisions-families-facing-food-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea supplies second round of provisions to families facing food shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK learned Tuesday that North Korean authorities issued a second round of food provisions to food-short households in border regions of Yanggang and North Hamgyong provinces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province, households suffering from food shortages have been receiving food provisions since Sunday in several regions along the Sino-North Korean border, including Samsu, Kimhyongjik, and Kimjongsuk counties in Yanggang Province, and Hoeryong and Onsong County in North Hamgyong Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to this, the provincial party committees and people\u2019s committees conducted a fact-finding effort in mid-to-late July to ascertain the living conditions of struggling households in those regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through this investigation, the committees got a picture of the economic standards and living conditions of each family, including whether they had enough to eat, the condition of their land, whether they had firewood, and if their children were going to school.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43326\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"hyesan director homeless gold smuggling explosions\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-1068x641.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377-700x420.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183415377.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Hyesan, in North Korea&#8217;s Yanggang Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter talks with local <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[people\u2019s unit] heads, the party and people\u2019s committees in Yanggang Province decided to provide about 20 kilograms of corn to each family suffering from food shortages,\u201d said the source. \u201cHowever, realizing that family size differed per household, they decided to provide up to 25 kilograms to larger families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe corn was old, dirty, and moldy, but to poor residents, the food was life itself,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cThis provision isn\u2019t part of state-supplied rations. It is being provided only to poor families at prices 20% cheaper than in the markets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, in releasing the food supplies, North Korean authorities reportedly made clear who would receive provisions this time around, stating that they \u201ccould not supply food at cheap prices to wealthy people.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, due to emergency quarantine efforts in the face of COVID-19, only the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heads and some of the households suffering from food shortages were allowed to obtain the provisions at state-run food shops. The provisions were then loaded onto carts to distribute to people in need. <\/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\/20210803-2\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily NK learned Tuesday that North Korean authorities issued a second round of food provisions to food-short households in border regions of Yanggang and North Hamgyong provinces. 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