{"id":53890,"date":"2023-01-31T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53890"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T04:15:42","slug":"north-korean-young-people-snub-government-efforts-encourage-mount-paektu-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-young-people-snub-government-efforts-encourage-mount-paektu-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean young people snub government efforts to encourage Mount Paektu tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea&#8217;s government is calling on young people to tour Mount Paektu as part of efforts to encourage them to \u201clearn from the Paektu revolutionary spirit.\u201d Many young people, however, are uninterested in the tours because they are considered a waste of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in South Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that Hamhung\u2019s party committee has been unable to fill up spots on tours of Mount Paektu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s because fewer people want to participate in the tours than in the past,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Korea has ordered party organizations nationwide to put together tours of the Mount Paektu district\u2019s revolutionary historical sites this year, as it did last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, party organizations are reportedly experiencing difficulties filling up tours because young people are avoiding the outings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said young people \u201care complaining to the tour organizers of fatigue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLast year, about 60% of the people recommended by various organizations refused to participate, citing family or health issues. This year, even more people are avoiding the tours,&#8221; he explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, one member of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League branch of a company in Hamhung\u2019s Ranam District reportedly received treatment at a hospital after taking an intentional tumble down the stairs upon learning his name was put on a list of Mount Paektu tour participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In another instance, a student at Hamhung\u2019s university of traditional Korean medicine bribed a school cadre to take his name off the list, saying that tours of Mount Paektu in the bitter cold of January were nothing but hardship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said young people are trying everything to avoid the tours because participants must pay for everything they need, including uniforms and food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He explained that more and more young people are avoiding the tours because they will have to pay for medical treatment if they come down with frostbite while participating in forced marches in the bitter cold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, large numbers of frostbite cases emerged among the young people who climbed Mount Paektu in mid-January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, officials offered no treatment and told the climbers to stay in line, admonishing them that \u201cfor young people, struggle is priceless\u201d and that \u201cyoung people grow up when their noses and feet freeze.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said in the old days, people would go into a panic if they missed a tour to Mount Paektu, \u201cbut young people think differently nowadays.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s tough enough to make a living, so there&#8217;s no reason to use their own money to climb Mount Paektu, where the average temperature plummets to minus 40,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the young people who experienced tours of Mount Paektu have complained that \u201csimply going up Mount Paektu doesn\u2019t constitute ideological education\u201d and that they were &#8220;tortured by cold weather,&#8221; the source added.\u00a0<\/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\/20230130-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&#8217;s government is calling on young people to tour Mount Paektu as part of efforts to encourage them to \u201clearn from the Paektu revolutionary spirit.\u201d Many young people, however, are uninterested in the tours because they are considered a waste of time.\u00a0 A source in South Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":43158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society"],"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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