{"id":54450,"date":"2023-03-24T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54450"},"modified":"2023-03-24T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:30:06","slug":"families-north-korean-border-patrol-officers-suffer-due-food-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/families-north-korean-border-patrol-officers-suffer-due-food-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of N. Korean border patrol officers suffer due to food shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many families of North Korean border patrol officers along the China-North Korea border lack enough cash to buy food, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe families of officers of the border patrol in Hoeryong have recently been suffering food shortages,\u201d a reporting partner in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns. \u201cThe families used to make a living from the money earned from aiding and abetting smuggling, but they haven\u2019t been able to earn that kind of money because of the border closure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to COVID-19, many border patrol officers received huge bribes of RMB 5,000 to RBM 10,000 (around USD 733 to 1,466) from smugglers in return for meditating shipments of smuggled goods from China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These circumstances allowed families of officers to live more affluent lives than ordinary people prior to COVID, but after the bribes dried up due to the closure of the border, even the families of officers began to suffer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner claimed that officers\u2019 families are suffering even more serious deprivations than ordinary people these days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s more, many officers feel even more helpless than usual given that \u201cSoldiers\u2019 Day\u201d is approaching. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Soldiers\u2019 Day events, officers must prepare meat, rice cakes and a variety of side dishes, but without money, they cannot buy the food they need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has led to complaints among officers&#8217; families about the lack of rations from the government, including salted radishes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhenever Soldiers\u2019 Day approaches, the families of border patrol officers get frustrated,\u201d said the reporting partner. \u201cThey are unhappy about the government dumping the problem of feeding soldiers on the families of officers. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Families of officers are acquiring food for Soldiers\u2019 Day to protect the pride of their family&#8217;s breadwinner, even if they have to incur debts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border patrol officers have recently been visiting smugglers to borrow money to lighten the load on their families, telling the smugglers that \u201cthey will pay them back right away when [cross-border] smuggling activities begin again,&#8221; the reporting partner added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\/20230321-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many families of North Korean border patrol officers along the China-North Korea border lack enough cash to buy food, Daily NK has learned. \u201cThe families of officers of the border patrol in Hoeryong have recently been suffering food shortages,\u201d a reporting partner in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Tuesday, speaking on condition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":44025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,1360,67],"tags":[691,1656,222],"class_list":["post-54450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-china-north-korea-border","category-society","category-news","tag-military","tag-dprk","tag-border"],"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>Families of N. 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