{"id":54674,"date":"2023-04-13T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54674"},"modified":"2023-04-13T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:44:53","slug":"former-military-officer-who-met-north-korea-supreme-leader-remains-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/former-military-officer-who-met-north-korea-supreme-leader-remains-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Former military officer who met N. Korea&#8217;s Supreme Leader remains hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Kangwon Province resident who met the country\u2019s supreme leader twice asked the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea for help his hungry family, but three months have passed without any help being given, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn mid-January, an individual in Sepo County who had met the supreme leader asked the provincial party committee to submit a request for food assistance to the Central Committee. But no assistance has been given, and the individual remains hungry,\u201d a reporting partner in Kangwon Province told Daily NK on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the reporting partner, the individual who filed the petition to the central committee is a retired military officer who was discharged in 2014 after a 30-year career in the army. He is on record having met the supreme leader two times while serving in the military. There are reportedly two photographs of the leader hanging up in his house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who have met the supreme leader are envied in North Korea because they receive various benefits, including access to good jobs and good universities, that extend to their children and even their grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But despite that status, the retired officer was in worse financial straits than other families even before COVID-19. And in the early months of this year, his family members fainted from hunger, the reporting partner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven officers have all kinds of trouble adjusting to normal life after 10 years in the military. Imagine what it must be like for someone who has depended on government rations for 30 years in the military. Retired soldiers and their families have been suffering even greater hardship since the outbreak of COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When officers leave the military and return to normal life, they typically start a business to earn a living. But this retired officer and his wife did not have a knack for business and chose an unprofitable product line, which left them in grinding poverty. That is why the former officer ended up submitting a petition to the Central Committee, the reporting partner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In mid-January, the retired officer drafted a petition asking for help feeding his family and submitted the petition to the provincial party committee, which then passed it along to the Central Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two months later, the Central Committee sharply rebuked the provincial party committee for passing along a petition it ought to have handled itself. The Central Committee also instructed the provincial party committee to provide food to the family of the former officer who had met the supreme leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the family has yet to receive any food, which has irritated locals. \u201cWhat\u2019s so great about having met the supreme leader? What good does it do to have a photograph of him on your wall?\u201d one asked. \u201cWhen the whole family was starving, members of the people\u2019s committee helped out, but the government hasn\u2019t even sent a single gram of rice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf the ultimate reward for retired soldiers who have dedicated their lives to the army is starvation, it\u2019s sure to give young people a good reason to avoid a career in the army,\u201d the reporting partner observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Carruth. 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 and China. 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\/20230410-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kangwon Province resident who met the country\u2019s supreme leader twice asked the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea for help his hungry family, but three months have passed without any help being given, Daily NK has learned. \u201cIn mid-January, an individual in Sepo County who had met the supreme leader asked the provincial party committee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":51583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[756,1656,691,710],"class_list":["post-54674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-kangwon-province","tag-dprk","tag-military","tag-food-shortages"],"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>Former military officer who met N. 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