{"id":50229,"date":"2022-01-03T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=50229"},"modified":"2022-01-03T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T03:09:23","slug":"graffiti-criticizing-kim-jong-un-recently-discovered-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/graffiti-criticizing-kim-jong-un-recently-discovered-pyongyang\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti criticizing Kim Jong Un recently discovered in Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graffiti that directly criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was recently discovered in Pyongyang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discovery came as the city hosted the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the ruling Workers\u2019 Party of Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source last Wednesday, graffiti was discovered on the outside of an apartment in Pyongyang\u2019s Pyongchon District on Dec. 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The graffiti read: \u201cKim Jong Un, you son of a *****. The people are starving to death because of you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A certain resident of Pyongchon District \u2014 identified by his family name of Kim \u2014 discovered the graffiti at around 4:20 AM while he was patrolling the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In accordance with protocol, the head of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(people\u2019s unit) reported the incident to the local security officer, who reported it to the district branch of the Ministry of State Security, which in turn reported it to the ministry\u2019s city branch; finally, it was reported it to the ministry\u2019s national branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afterwards, the Ministry of State Security\u2019s national, city, and district branches mobilized all its agents to close off the scene of the incident and erase the graffiti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea strictly bans all acts that directly criticize the nation\u2019s leader. The authorities have charged offenders with crimes against the state or sedition, sending them to political prison camps or even executing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Mar. 2018, a colonel in the General Staff Department was publicly executed after he was named the ringleader behind graffiti left on Pyongyang\u2019s landmark April 25 House of Culture that criticized Kim\u2019s regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That a major incident has suddenly emerged after three years without a significant disturbance has caught the attention of North Korea\u2019s security authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42973\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uacfc\ud559\uc790\uac70\ub9ac5.jpg\" alt=\"pyongyang scientists street kim jong suk\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uacfc\ud559\uc790\uac70\ub9ac5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uacfc\ud559\uc790\uac70\ub9ac5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uacfc\ud559\uc790\uac70\ub9ac5-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uacfc\ud559\uc790\uac70\ub9ac5-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/\uacfc\ud559\uc790\uac70\ub9ac5-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mirae Scientists Street in Pyongyang \/ Image: Ryugong website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They worry that the graffiti may be evidence that the excessive regulations and controls implemented under the pretext of \u201cemergency COVID-19 quarantine efforts\u201d since early last year have generated more public discontent than expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the appearance of the graffiti ahead of the Central Committee\u2019s Fourth Plenary Meeting put the security authorities on full alert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the authorities are taking the incident even more seriously as the graffiti appeared around the time of the 10th anniversary of the death of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (Dec. 17), the birthday of Kim Jong Il\u2019s mother Kim Jong Suk (Dec. 24), and the party\u2019s plenary meeting from Dec. 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the national branch of the Ministry of State Security is laser focused on finding the culprit and is conducting an intense investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the ministry\u2019s Pyongchon District branch has been conducting \u201chandwriting analyses\u201d of workers at local factories and enterprises and even students since Dec. 23, as well as investigating their whereabouts that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, people speculate that with the authorities installing CCTVs everywhere since Kim Jong Un took power, finding the culprit should take little time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the security authorities are on alert against similar incidents taking place in the provinces, given how this latest case took place in the capital Pyongyang, where residents are very loyal to the regime and enjoy better conditions across the board, including food provisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relatedly, flyers and graffiti critical of Kim were found in Pochon County, Yanggang Province, and Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, in 2016. Later that year, somebody spread dozens of KPW 5,000 bills defaced with similar criticism around downtown Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province.<\/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%8f%89%ec%96%91%ec%84%9c-%ea%b9%80%ec%a0%95%ec%9d%80-%ec%a7%81%ec%a0%91-%eb%b9%84%eb%82%9c-%eb%82%99%ec%84%9c-%eb%b0%9c%ea%b2%ac-%ed%8c%8c%eb%ac%b8-%ea%b5%ad%ea%b0%80%eb%b3%b4%ec%9c%84\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graffiti that directly criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was recently discovered in Pyongyang. The discovery came as the city hosted the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the ruling Workers\u2019 Party of Korea. 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