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Korean officials and workers in China ordered to collect funds for nuclear program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following a call by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to accelerate efforts to produce nuclear weapons, North Korean authorities recently ordered its trade officials and workers in China to contribute money to support the country&#8217;s military industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOfficials are running around to borrow money after North Korea ordered trade delegations and workers to \u2018contribute to the fatherland\u2019s military industries by collecting munition funds of loyalty, even if trade officials and overseas service sector workers have to sleep little and eat less,'&#8221; a reporting partner in China told Daily NK on Friday, speaking of condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the reporting partner, North Korea is demanding payments of \u201cmunition funds of loyalty,\u201d calling on North Koreans working overseas to \u201cmake emergency preparations to contribute their share to the material and technical base for the country to become a great nuclear power nobody can touch through the rapid development of our military industries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While hurriedly demanding that officials and workers carry out the payments to mark the holiday celebrating the birthday of North Korea\u2019s late founder Kim Il Sung on Apr. 15, North Korean authorities called on them to meet their assigned quotas of money and to keep the order secret so that outsiders do not learn of the effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, officials at North Korean trade delegations in China and on-the-ground managers are going around to Chinese traders and acquaintances to borrow money, explaining to them that they have been tasked with contributing the funds. This has led to rumors spreading that the North Korean authorities issued such an order, the reporting partner explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, North Korean trade officials and on-site managers are telling Chinese traders and acquaintances: \u201cWhen they tell us to send money because the fatherland is struggling, if we fail to pay up, it won\u2019t matter how well we\u2019ve done in normal times. Please lend me money. I\u2019ll pay it back later with interest.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some officials are asking lenders to change the money into dollars at banks, while others tell lenders they can simply send the money to a particular account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korean trade officials said they are collecting RMB 2,000 [around USD 290] per person in munition funds of loyalty,\u201d said the reporting partner. \u201cThey are lamenting their situation, complaining that they\u2019ll become debtors and swindlers if the fatherland suddenly orders them to return home.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the reporting partner said some Chinese traders and acquaintances are refusing to lend money, even as they take pity on the North Korean officials. To the requests, they are responding: \u201cThis isn&#8217;t the first time you&#8217;ve asked for money, and won&#8217;t the funds collected ultimately support North Korea making nukes?\u201d<\/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\/20230330-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a call by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to accelerate efforts to produce nuclear weapons, North Korean authorities recently ordered its trade officials and workers in China to contribute money to support the country&#8217;s military industry.\u00a0 \u201cOfficials are running around to borrow money after North Korea ordered trade delegations and workers to \u2018contribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":42262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539,67],"tags":[1367,1656,759],"class_list":["post-54564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-koreans-in-china","category-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-dprk","tag-china"],"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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