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Korean high schoolers encounter flasher on the way to clean statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two North Korean high school girls in Hyesan remain traumatized after encountering a male flasher as they headed to clean statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il earlier this month, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a reporting partner in Yanggang Province told Daily NK last Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim Il Sung&#8217;s birthday falls on Apr. 15, and all schools in Hyesan handed down instructions to students in late March that they \u201ctake part in cleaning the statues with feelings of loyalty.\u201d The two unfortunate students had been cleaning the statues every day from Apr. 1 until the day of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe girls live near one another, so they used to meet at a designated place at 5 AM every morning and go to clean the statues. On the day of the incident, they met at the agreed spot and were heading to the statues when they encountered the flasher,&#8221; the reporting partner said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the girls were walking along the empty early morning road, a man stopped in front of them, pulled down his pants and exposed himself to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too shocked to scream out, the two girls ran back home. Since then, they have been afraid to go to school or even leave their homes due to the shock of the event, and remain tormented by memories of what happened to them, the reporting partner said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt seems the flasher knew that the students went to clean the statues at 5 AM and waited for his chance to do what he did. I suspect this kind of incident will continue to occur, and given there are no clues, it won&#8217;t be easy to catch the flasher,&#8221; she explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe fundamental reason this incident happened is because students \u2014 compelled to show loyalty \u2014 are being called to clean the statues in the early morning everyday. One has to ask whether loyalty really emerges from cleaning statues.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of efforts to promote loyalty toward the regime, North Korea has been mobilizing students \u2014 from elementary school up to university \u2014 to clean the area around statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il from 5 AM to 7 AM since the 1980s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students who do not proactively take part in cleaning the statues are criticized during their review periods for their lack of loyalty, while students who clean the statues every day are praised as model students. Given these circumstances, many students take part in the cleaning of the areas around statues at least 15 days a month.<\/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 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\/20230420-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two North Korean high school girls in Hyesan remain traumatized after encountering a male flasher as they headed to clean statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il earlier this month, a reporting partner in Yanggang Province told Daily NK last Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.\u00a0 Kim Il Sung&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":42682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[815,1656,703,729],"class_list":["post-54768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mobilization","tag-dprk","tag-education","tag-students"],"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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