{"id":49699,"date":"2021-10-19T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49699"},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:57:30","slug":"north-korea-changes-nighttime-curfew-hours-china-north-korea-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-changes-nighttime-curfew-hours-china-north-korea-border\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea changes nighttime curfew hours on China-North Korea border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently changed the hours of its nighttime curfew along the Sino-North Korean border, with violators being arrested and sent to forced labor brigades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new curfew hours are from 6 PM to 7 AM, with the old hours being 8 PM to 5 AM.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that the authorities greatly intensified their clamp down and punishment of curfew-breakers since changing the curfew hours on Oct. 1. He said about 60 people so far have been sent to forced labor brigades for violating the new curfew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK reported on Oct. 6 that North Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/10%ec%9b%94%eb%b6%80%ed%84%b0-%ea%b5%ad%ea%b2%bd-%ec%95%bc%ea%b0%84%ed%86%b5%ea%b8%88-%ec%8b%9c%ea%b0%84-%eb%b3%80%ea%b2%bd%ec%83%9d%ea%b3%84%eb%82%9c-%ea%b2%aa%eb%8a%94-%ec%a3%bc%eb%af%bc\/\">changed its nighttime curfew<\/a> (article in Korean) along the Sino-North Korean border from Oct. 1 ahead of the winter season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, since the curfew change on Oct. 1, the authorities have been dragging off people caught outside past 6 PM to forced labor brigades, regardless of their excuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of those busted were merchants in markets or alleyways. These people broke curfew to earn more for their families \u2014 even if just a penny more \u2014 despite threatened \u201clegal punishments\u201d by the authorities.<\/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, law enforcement authorities are still dragging them off to forced labor brigades, ostensibly because they must \u201cunconditionally execute orders from the Central Committee,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea implemented the same level of punishments for curfew-related infractions last year as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the number of locals actually subjected to forced labor for breaking curfew has more than quadrupled from the same period last year, based on the situation in Hoeryong as of Oct. 15. This also suggests more people are engaging in at least a bit of commerce outdoors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople living in the border region are suffering indescribable food shortages due to the prolonged coronavirus pandemic,\u201d said the source. \u201cHowever, the leadership is not taking measures [to alleviate this suffering] by providing food distributions. Instead, they are taking only deplorable measures that make people\u2019s lives worse.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said people sent to Hoeryong\u2019s forced labor brigade spend between 15 and 30 days there. He added that the authorities do not provide food, with laborers forced to rely on boxed meals provided by their families.<\/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\/%ed%9a%8c%eb%a0%b9%ec%84%9c-%ec%95%bc%ea%b0%84-%ed%86%b5%ed%96%89%ea%b8%88%ec%a7%80-%ec%96%b4%ea%b8%b4-%ec%a3%bc%eb%af%bc-60%eb%aa%85-%eb%85%b8%eb%8f%99%eb%8b%a8%eb%a0%a8%eb%8c%80%e8%a1%8c\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently changed the hours of its nighttime curfew along the Sino-North Korean border, with violators being arrested and sent to forced labor brigades. The new curfew hours are from 6 PM to 7 AM, with the old hours being 8 PM to 5 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":38667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49699","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 v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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