{"id":52256,"date":"2022-07-13T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52256"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:26:18","slug":"north-korean-leadership-launches-corruption-probe-pyongyang-mirim-horse-riding-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-leadership-launches-corruption-probe-pyongyang-mirim-horse-riding-club\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean leadership launches corruption probe into Pyongyang&#8217;s Mirim Horse Riding Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Committee\u2019s Discipline Inspection Department recently began investigating Pyongyang\u2019s Mirim Horse Riding Club after receiving a report that alleged corruption on the part of officials there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Pyongyang told Daily NK on July 5 that the Discipline Inspection Department has been investigating the club\u2019s party committee since mid-June for allegedly taking large sums of money to provide private lessons to the children of cadres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, four middle school students who were learning to ride at Mirim Horse Riding Club were hospitalized on June 18 after they suffered riding accidents. Three sustained light injuries while one suffered from more serious injuries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the club blamed the students for the accident, an angry parent complained to the Central Committee that the club was taking large sums of money to provide private one-on-one lessons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea strictly forbids private education. However, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his wife Ri Sol Ju, his sister Kim Yo Jong and close cadres appeared horseback in a new documentary film titled \u201c2021: Year of a Great Victory,\u201d Pyongyang\u2019s upper class reportedly developed a keen interest in horse riding. Private riding lessons took off, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Central Committee cadres and Pyongyang\u2019s wealthy class are reportedly paying large sums so that their children can take private, one-on-one riding lessons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, Mirim Horse Riding Club was taking USD 1,800 per person for a year of lessons when the Discipline Inspection Department launched its inspection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Discipline Inspection Department officials who came for the inspection are taking a close look into Mirim Horse Riding Club\u2019s [alleged] corruption,\u201d said the source. \u201cCadres and staff are nervous that they\u2019ll get in trouble since the Central Committee is running the inspection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMirim Horse Riding Club was constructed with special interest from the Supreme Leader [Kim Jong Un], so it\u2019s an even bigger problem that the capitalist phenomenon of providing exclusive private lessons to the children of cadres and wealthy families has emerged [there],\u201d the source continued, adding, \u201cI expect there to be major fallout.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created at the Eighth Party Congress in January of 2021, the Discipline Inspection Department aims to strengthen the authority of the ruling party\u2019s Central Auditing Commission, which keeps an eye on rule violations by party members, adjudicates infractions and handles complaints and petitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220705-4\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Committee\u2019s Discipline Inspection Department recently began investigating Pyongyang\u2019s Mirim Horse Riding Club after receiving a report that alleged corruption on the part of officials there.\u00a0 A source in Pyongyang told Daily NK on July 5 that the Discipline Inspection Department has been investigating the club\u2019s party committee since mid-June for allegedly taking large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":42897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[273,274,1265],"class_list":["post-52256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-corruption","tag-pyongyang","tag-party-membership"],"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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