{"id":49372,"date":"2021-08-27T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49372"},"modified":"2021-08-29T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T06:43:01","slug":"military-officers-deployed-work-makeshift-structures-north-korea-china-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/military-officers-deployed-work-makeshift-structures-north-korea-china-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Military officers deployed to work on makeshift structures on North Korea-China border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officers rather than ordinary enlisted soldiers have recently been deployed to build makeshift structures as part of efforts to prevent border crossings and defections in Yanggang Province, a region along the Sino-North Korean border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that in the middle of August, the authorities began building temporary structures to prevent defections in border regions such as Samsu and Sinpa (Kimjongsuk) counties. \u201cOfficers over the rank of major from the 10th Corps, which is based in Yanggang Province, have been mobilized for the effort,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has been building a wire fence and wall along the Sino-North Korean border since last year, ostensibly to protect against COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, critics find it highly unlikely that the project will be completed by the initially targeted date of Oct. 10 \u2014 Party Foundation Day \u2014 due to difficulties brought about by supply shortages and pilfering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, in some areas, soldiers have been seen erecting makeshift structures with empty bottles and tins hanging from them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This appears aimed at putting a thorough stop to defections resulting from economic difficulties. North Korean authorities have closed off the border with two-fold and even three-fold security, deploying the \u201cStorm Corps\u201d special forces unit and Seventh Corps to the frontier. However, with defection attempts continuing through more loosely surveilled areas, the authorities have moved to \u201ccompletely seal\u201d the border.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45877\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Soldiers-fence-border.jpg\" alt=\"fencing\" width=\"693\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Soldiers-fence-border.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Soldiers-fence-border-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean soldiers seen constructing fences along the border last year. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said soldiers \u201care felling commonly seen trees such as larches and oaks and [using the logs] to block the border with big Xs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey seem intent on using any means possible to prevent people or animals from entering or leaving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mobilization of officers is an interesting development. The source says this, too, is aimed at preventing defections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFood provisions to soldiers this year were even more miserable than last year,\u201d he said. \u201cOfficers with families were organized for the work because with malnutrition getting worse, ordinary soldiers could try to defect while they worked on the project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, with even the officers suffering poor nutrition, locals sarcastically wonder \u201cwhether such a miserable army has ever before existed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, rumors are reportedly spreading that \u201cwhile majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels have been mobilized for the work, they are so thin they look malnourished\u201d and \u201cthe officers look so unwell, it goes without saying that the enlisted men must be even worse.\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\/%eb%82%98%eb%ac%b4%eb%a1%9c-%eb%b6%81%ec%a4%91-%ea%b5%ad%ea%b2%bd-%ec%9e%a5%eb%b2%bd-%ec%b9%98%eb%8a%94-%eb%b6%81%ed%95%9c-%eb%8f%99%ec%9b%90%eb%90%9c-%ea%b5%b0%ea%b4%80-%eb%aa%bb-%eb%a8%b9\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers rather than ordinary enlisted soldiers have recently been deployed to build makeshift structures as part of efforts to prevent border crossings and defections in Yanggang Province, a region along the Sino-North Korean border. 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