{"id":53800,"date":"2023-01-16T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53800"},"modified":"2023-01-16T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:04:40","slug":"guard-deserted-kim-jong-un-pyongsong-villa-turns-up-wandering-beggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/guard-deserted-kim-jong-un-pyongsong-villa-turns-up-wandering-beggar\/","title":{"rendered":"Guard who deserted Kim Jong Un&#8217;s Pyongsong villa turns up as a wandering beggar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A soldier with the Supreme Guard Command who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/a-guard-at-kim-jong-uns-pyongsong-villa-deserts-with-weapon\/\">deserted <\/a>his post near North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s ultra-luxurious Chamosan Villa in early January was recently captured by the authorities, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in North Korea last Thursday, a plain-clothed arrest squad from the Supreme Guard Command\u2019s security department arrested the 19-year-old private \u2014 identified by his family name of Ri \u2014 in front of a soup stall near the Baesan-dong Market in Pyongyang\u2019s Unjong District late in the evening of Jan. 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While being interrogated by the Supreme Guard Command\u2019s security department, Ri said he had been planning to live as a wandering beggar, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kkotjebi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at markets in Pyongyang\u2019s Unjong District, near where he was based as a soldier in Pyongsong. Ri believed that if he returned to his hometown, he would be immediately arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for why he deserted, Ri said he \u201cmissed sleep so much\u201d that he was willing to become a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kkotjebi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if it meant getting a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI ran, prepared for a dishonorable discharge, because I didn\u2019t want to live any longer as a laundry soldier or a replacement patrol soldier,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Guard Command\u2019s security department called in the owner of the soup stall who let Ri stay at the shop in exchange for doing odd jobs like replacing briquettes to learn about how the soldier lived after he deserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The owner testified that the soldier handed over a military uniform and combat boots, asking the owner to sell them and help him for a couple of days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the owner pointed out that they were military items and asked where he got them from, the soldier said he was a vagabond and had stolen them from a soldiers\u2019 barracks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe asked me to help him just for a couple of days, saying he wouldn\u2019t ask me to hide him for free,\u201d the owner told the investigators, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI believed him, and fed and sheltered him for about a week, a period equal to value of the military items. I didn\u2019t think he was a Supreme Guard Command soldier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ri testified that he tossed away the automatic rifle, magazine and blank shells on a hillside near his patrol zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ri&#8217;s unit &#8211; the 81st Brigade &#8211; searched for the weapon and shells, but has yet to find it, the source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Guard Command is treating the loss of the weapons as a direct threat to the personal safety of Kim Jong Un and putting everything into the search given that the incident involved the supreme leader&#8217;s villa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said rumors that a soldier with the Supreme Guard Command survived for a few days as a beggar in a market by replacing briquettes at a soup stall immediately spread via the merchants of Baesan Market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Supreme Guard Command\u2019s security department immediately moved to keep the merchants quiet through the South Pyongan Province branch of the Ministry of State Security, and has mobilized government agencies, neighborhood watch units and agents of market security departments to look for the missing weapon and shells,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230112-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier with the Supreme Guard Command who deserted his post near North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s ultra-luxurious Chamosan Villa in early January was recently captured by the authorities, Daily NK has learned. 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