{"id":49394,"date":"2021-08-31T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49394"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:15:29","slug":"facing-food-shortages-storm-corps-pilfer-government-storage-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/facing-food-shortages-storm-corps-pilfer-government-storage-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing food shortages, Storm Corps pilfer government storage facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faced with miserable food conditions, members of the so-called \u201cStorm Corps\u201d (11th Corps) on long-term deployments to the Sino-North Korean border have gone beyond robbing private homes to pilfer even the food stores of government agencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that with the Storm Corps deployed to the border for such a long time, the unit was growing \u201cideologically complacent and lax\u201d and poor food supplies were causing \u201cfurther problems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey\u2019re not connected to Chinese traders like the border guard, so they rob people,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd now they\u2019re even robbing the logistics facilities of state agencies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the Storm Corps receives food, but the quality of the food has gradually worsened the longer it stays at the border. \u201cIf the relationship between the troops and civilians was good, they could get help from locals,\u201d he said. \u201cBut even this relationship has been greatly damaged. And they don\u2019t have side jobs, so if food supplies are lacking, they have to make due on their own. Being unable to do anything else, they\u2019ve ultimately turned to robbing state institutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, three soldiers from the Storm Corps broke into the local branch of the Ministry of State Security in Hoeryong to rob its warehouse earlier this month. However, they were reportedly caught at the scene after being discovered by staff on patrol and ultimately discharged from the military.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, their battalion commander, political guidance officer and security guidance officer were relieved, and their battalion was withdrawn by the middle of the month and replaced by another, said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the incident was mentioned in lecture materials from the Central Military Commission distributed on Aug. 15. Condemning the robbing of state institutions as a \u201cserious\u201d crime, the Central Committee used the incident to raise the alarm against \u201cirregular\u201d phenomena emerging in border regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, there are growing calls in North Korea for the urgent withdrawal of the Storm Corps. However, with work to build a concrete fence and high voltage wires along the border running into problems due to insufficient supplies, the special forces unit could be withdrawn even later than initially planned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Storm Corps\u2019 commanders reportedly believe the unit should be withdrawn at once. They say the longer the unit remains deployed at the border, the more difficult it becomes for it to train for its main combat mission &#8211; namely, sowing \u201cdisorder in the enemy\u2019s rear.\u201d They also worry that ideologically lax soldiers could desert and defect.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44025\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362.jpg\" alt=\"remittance ryanggang province border agreement equipment\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sentry post on the Sino-North Korean border in Sakju County, North Pyongan Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the source said that while electrical transformers have to be installed at all lengths of the border, the state is failing to provide them. Instead, the government is telling provincial party, government and military organizations to provide them \u201cthrough self-reliance,\u201d so work on the wall and high-voltage wires will apparently be delayed even further.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Storm Corps can only withdraw once [the transformers] have been installed, but if these devices aren\u2019t supplied, it won\u2019t be easy for the unit to withdraw,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea ordered the border wall and wires be completed by Party Foundation Day on Oct. 10. Accordingly, a joint inspection team from the Central Committee, Cabinet and Ministry of State Security plans to visit the four border provinces (North Pyongan Province, Chagang Province, Yanggang Province and North Hamgyong Province) from Oct. 1 to Oct. 10 to evaluate the work done so far. The source said if the inspection team gives the work a failing grade, the withdrawal of the Storm Corps will be delayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, local mistreatment of the unit is growing worse, as is the Storm Corps&#8217; turf war with the border patrol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said Storm Corps troops complain that they \u201ccan\u2019t even get a bowl of water from the people,\u201d and that border residents treat them like a \u201cposse\u201d with no business being there, despite having come \u201cto do the nation\u2019s work.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, shop owners along the border either pretend they have no goods or raise their prices when they see Storm Corps troops, and most merchants refuse to sell to unit personnel on credit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source added that border residents who made their living from smuggling are \u201cvery hostile\u201d to the Storm Corps, blaming them for their current woes, and that troops from the unit will face difficulties adjusting to life in the area going forward as well.<\/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\/20210827-2\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with miserable food conditions, members of the so-called \u201cStorm Corps\u201d (11th Corps) on long-term deployments to the Sino-North Korean border have gone beyond robbing private homes to pilfer even the food stores of government agencies.\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that with the Storm Corps deployed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":42799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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