{"id":50332,"date":"2022-01-17T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=50332"},"modified":"2022-01-17T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:25:37","slug":"north-korea-likely-keep-china-north-korea-border-generally-closed-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-likely-keep-china-north-korea-border-generally-closed-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea likely to keep China-North Korea border generally closed into 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have recently been signaling a change in the tenor of their quarantine policies, leading to speculation that they may open the China-North Korea border. Barring any major unseen variables, however, North Korean authorities are likely to keep the border closed through 2022 while continuing restricted \u201cstate-led trade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a high-ranking Daily NK source in North Korea last Thursday, North Korean authorities have decided to ease inter-regional movement, even while strengthening quarantine efforts in regions bordering China this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities currently ban travel between different regions except for people engaged in government business or those who have received prior permission. Ordinary people cannot travel between regions unless they are going to family funerals or weddings, which means they are generally unable to visit their relatives or hometowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have tightly controlled things along the border in particular, placing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-puts-kimhyongjik-county-under-lockdown-amid-covid-19-fears\/\">entire cities on lockdown<\/a> when people have crossed the China-North Korea border illegally or engaged in smuggling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Koreans have expressed a considerable amount of discontent toward these quarantine policies, which have been in place for around two years. The authorities have chosen to ease inter-regional movement slightly as part of a bid to dial down this discontent, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rodong Sinmun reported on Jan. 10 that the authorities must constantly \u201cinnovate their quarantine efforts to thoroughly ensure their perfection.\u201d It said that quarantine efforts should shift their focus from \u201cquarantine through control\u201d to a more \u201cadvanced, people-focused quarantine\u201d based on the foundations of the &#8220;strong emergency quarantine wall built up until this point.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42799\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1.jpg\" alt=\"special patrols coronavirus outbreak smuggler mobile phones strict smuggler border\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/DSC01790-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A border patrol checkpoint in Pungso County, Yanggang Province. This photo was taken in February 2019. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, many North Koreans believe that COVID-19 infections have been limited thanks to the state\u2019s quarantine measures and that relaxing controls somewhat on inter-regional movement should be fine if, that is, China-North Korea border controls are maintained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK was unable to find out in detail just how far North Korean authorities will relax inter-regional movement, but a greater movement of people could lead to an increase in the distribution of goods along with an expansion in market activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One North Korea expert, who requested anonymity, told Daily NK that greater market activity in North Korea would lead to a &#8220;brisker circulation of funds&#8221; and &#8220;personal and small-business activity could get a shot in the arm.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He noted further that North Korean authorities could amend their economic policies by increasing taxes people have to pay while encouraging commercial activity through the easing of restrictions on inter-regional movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, it appears likely North Korean authorities will maintain their current controls on the China-North Korea border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, they will strictly ban illegal entry into the country of both people without prior entry approval and goods without proper quarantine procedures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, in terms of trade, the authorities plan to engage in limited imports and exports of permitted goods through trading companies and trade officials that have been authorized to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Korean authorities do plan to expand state-led trade a bit as part of efforts to increase imports and exports past last year\u2019s levels.<\/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\/%e5%8c%97-%ec%84%a0%ec%a7%84%eb%b0%a9%ec%97%ad-%ea%b0%95%ec%a1%b0-%ea%b5%ad%ea%b2%bd%ea%b0%9c%eb%b0%a9-%eb%9c%bb-%ec%95%84%eb%83%90-%eb%82%b4%eb%b6%80-%ec%9d%b4%eb%8f%99%ed%86%b5%ec%a0%9c\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities have recently been signaling a change in the tenor of their quarantine policies, leading to speculation that they may open the China-North Korea border. Barring any major unseen variables, however, North Korean authorities are likely to keep the border closed through 2022 while continuing restricted \u201cstate-led trade.\u201d According to a high-ranking Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":42643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50332","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>North Korea likely to keep China-North Korea border generally closed into 2022 - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-likely-keep-china-north-korea-border-generally-closed-2022\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Korea likely to keep China-North Korea border generally closed into 2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"North Korean authorities have recently been signaling a change in the tenor of their quarantine policies, leading to speculation that they may open the China-North Korea border. 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