{"id":49673,"date":"2021-10-15T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T04:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49673"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T04:10:31","slug":"young-children-north-korea-still-being-forced-fulfill-non-tax-burdens-ahead-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/young-children-north-korea-still-being-forced-fulfill-non-tax-burdens-ahead-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Young children in N. Korea still being forced to fulfill &#8220;non-tax burdens&#8221; ahead of the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young children are reportedly being tasked with \u201cnon-tax burdens,\u201d ostensibly for winter preparations, in kindergartens in North Hamgyong Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Thursday that winter preparations in kindergartens in Chongjin began in earnest this month. \u201cHowever, the kindergarteners are being given non-tax burdens in the name of the winter preparations,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Eighth Party Congress earlier this year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the elimination of non-tax burdens, ordering an intensified party, administrative and legal \u201cbattle\u201d against the practice. However, in reality, local residents, students and even kindergarten children are still being subject to non-tax burdens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, in the case of Sunan Kindergarten in Chongjin, students were recently ordered to cough up KPW 100,000 per person, ostensibly so the school can buy firewood. Firewood currently sells for KPW 85,000 per cubic meter in local markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48819\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc544\uc774\ub4e4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc544\uc774\ub4e4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc544\uc774\ub4e4-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc544\uc774\ub4e4-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc544\uc774\ub4e4-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc544\uc774\ub4e4-759x420.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean children \/ Image: Seokwang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The school even pressured the students by telling them they would be evaluated based on how quickly they performed the task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This basically amounts to inflicting psychological pain and mental scars on young children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea calls young children \u201cthe kings of the country.\u201d Contrary to the regime\u2019s claims, however, North Korean children are not receiving proper nursery care and education from the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To mark International Children&#8217;s Day on June 1, the Korean Central News Agency reported that the country\u2019s children were happily living under the nation\u2019s nursery and education system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the reality is that children receive no state benefits at all, the source claimed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSince the Kim Jong Un era began, state benefits have disappeared. Instead, kindergarten children are being subjected to non-tax burdens in the name of education,\u201d said the source. \u201cChildren from poorer households are even avoiding going to kindergarten.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%9c%a0%ec%b9%98%ec%9b%90-%ec%95%84%ec%9d%b4%eb%93%a4%ec%97%90-%ec%84%b8%ec%99%b8%eb%b6%80%eb%8b%b4-%eb%98%90-%ec%a0%84%ea%b0%80-%ec%9d%b4%eb%b2%88%ec%97%94-%ec%9b%94%eb%8f%99%ec%a4%80\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young children are reportedly being tasked with \u201cnon-tax burdens,\u201d ostensibly for winter preparations, in kindergartens in North Hamgyong Province. A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Thursday that winter preparations in kindergartens in Chongjin began in earnest this month. \u201cHowever, the kindergarteners are being given non-tax burdens in the name of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":48819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Young children in N. 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