{"id":51475,"date":"2022-04-28T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51475"},"modified":"2022-04-28T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:17:11","slug":"north-korea-forcibly-relocating-families-missing-relatives-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-forcibly-relocating-families-missing-relatives-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea is forcibly relocating families with missing relatives to rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have recently been identifying households with two or more missing family members and forcibly relocating them to rural areas, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on Wednesday that families in Hoeryong with two or more missing members are being banished to agricultural areas. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigation of missing people, which began at the start of this year, is still underway and families [with missing people] are concerned,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the families most worried about the investigation are those with relatives who defected to other countries. These families have no way of knowing if or when they could be forcibly relocated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hoeryong, the authorities have conducted four rounds of forcible relocations of households with any number of relatives confirmed to be living in South Korea or China. This process has led to the relocation of families who the authorities believe have relatives who defected to foreign nations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the authorities have a policy to expel families with two or more missing members, even if the exact whereabouts of these relatives remain unknown, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, four families from the Nammun neighborhood in Hoeryong were forcible relocated on Apr. 10. One of the families had two daughters who went missing eight years ago. The family was relocated even though the authorities confirmed through an investigation that they had never received money or even had contact with their daughters all these years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This example suggests that the authorities are not making any exceptions to its policy of forced relocations. In fact, local Ministry of Social Security branches have received strict orders to \u201cnever turn a blind eye\u201d toward cases of missing people, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forced relocation policy appears to be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deeply connected to the North Korean government\u2019s push to eradicate \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist elements\u201d from the society. In short, the authorities believe that the families of defectors are the main culprits behind the inflow of foreign information and culture into the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the government\u2019s desperate need for additional labor in rural areas appears to be another reason why forced relocations continue to occur. Although the authorities have used \u201cpetitions\u201d to try and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/many-petitioners-south-hamgyong-province-not-heading-designated-areas\/\">recruit volunteers to work in rural areas<\/a>, these efforts have not been entirely successful. As such, officials may have moved to supplement the country\u2019s dwindling rural workforce by forcibly relocating the country\u2019s perceived \u201creactionary elements.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People in positions of power who face investigations or forced relocation due to missing relatives, however, have reportedly found ways to avoid getting kicked out of their homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany cadres in the party, Ministry of State Security, Ministry of Social Security, and prosecutors\u2019 offices have missing relatives,\u201d the source said. \u201cBut they have already declared their relatives deceased, so they are being excluded from the forced relocations to rural areas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by Gabriela Bernal. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/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\/20220427-1\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities have recently been identifying households with two or more missing family members and forcibly relocating them to rural areas, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on Wednesday that families in Hoeryong with two or more missing members are being banished to agricultural areas. \u201cThe investigation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":50420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[773],"class_list":["post-51475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-north-hamgyong-province"],"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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