{"id":53838,"date":"2023-01-20T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53838"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:56:37","slug":"north-korean-man-arrested-after-complaining-about-volunteering-under-duress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-man-arrested-after-complaining-about-volunteering-under-duress\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean man arrested after complaining about &#8220;volunteering&#8221; under duress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A man was recently arrested after he continued complaining about \u201cvolunteering\u201d under duress to relocate from the capital Pyongyang to Kwail County, South Hwanghae Province, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in South Hwanghae Province told Daily NK on Wednesday that a resident of Kwail County who moved there from Pyongyang after being \u201ccaught up in petition to live in provincial areas\u201d was arrested by the local branch of the Ministry of State Security on Jan. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man, who is in his 40s, worked as a painter at Mansudae Art Studio but came to Kwail County with his family in October after he was netted into petitioning to relocate to the provinces, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had been working at the restoration office of the propaganda department of Kwail County\u2019s party committee. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The office employs experts who restore local mosaic murals, statues, paintings and works of party propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the man \u2014 a native of a provincial region \u2014 had been attached to Pyongyang\u2019s Mansudae Art Studio after graduating university because he was talented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHowever, when the authorities decided on a policy to promote petitions [volunteering] to live in the provinces, he ended up applying because he was being pressured by a party organization and had no choice,\u201d he said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was caught up because the policy was to make people who lived in provincial areas petition first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Above all else, he was forced to make a petition because he had to write a self-criticism letter and was given probational punishment for \u201cmisspeaking\u201d while he was abroad selling paintings for foreign currency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he began complaining about his relocation soon after coming to Kwail County. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow am I going to live in a provincial area?\u201d he would ask.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI resent how I was forced to petition to live in the provinces and sent to a rural community, even though I did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued to grumble, asking why he had to come to the provinces and complaining about how \u201cpeople with no power or anyone to watch their backs get driven to the provinces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People around him took displeasure with this, and ultimately, so did the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA party organization he was affiliated with had been paying attention to what he was saying,\u201d said the source. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd when he kept complaining, the organization learned of his problematic statements through the entire staff of the restoration office. It wrote a report about it, got each of the staff members to sign it, and then sent it to the county party committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe county party committee concluded that somebody who habitually harbors complaints and dismisses provincial areas as unlivable places of exile isn\u2019t fit to work in a holy place restoring the Workers&#8217; Party&#8217;s works of propaganda, and that he could bring ideological changes to ideological pure-hearted provincial people,\u201d the source continued, adding, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo it told the Ministry of State Security to arrest him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man\u2019s entire family disappeared not long after the man was arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said local people believe this was the Ministry of State Security\u2019s doing and say the family was likely exiled deep into the mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/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\/20230118-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was recently arrested after he continued complaining about \u201cvolunteering\u201d under duress to relocate from the capital Pyongyang to Kwail County, South Hwanghae Province, Daily NK has learned. 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