{"id":54859,"date":"2023-05-08T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54859"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T03:00:35","slug":"kaesong-farmers-unhappy-city-party-committee-focus-agitation-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kaesong-farmers-unhappy-city-party-committee-focus-agitation-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaesong farmers unhappy at city party committee&#8217;s focus on agitation activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farmers in the city of Kaesong are expressing their discontent at the city\u2019s party committee, which is entirely preoccupied with agitation activities despite the current busy farming season, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe farmers\u2019 simmering dissatisfaction with Kaesong\u2019s city party committee stems from the committee\u2019s exclusive focus on agitation activities, specifically the allocation of political and economic agitation activities to each farm, rather than channeling manpower to support busy farming activities,\u201d a reporting partner in Kaesong told Daily NK last Tuesday, 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 committee has determined the amount of such agitation activities to be carried out by various organizations, enterprises and schools in the city, and gave orders for these institutions to report on the number of activities conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Far from receiving help to resolve pressing agricultural matters, work units were instead entirely focused on a range of propaganda and agitation practice sessions before going out to the fields to sing, dance, and read aloud poems before returning home. All of this has led to mounting displeasure among the farm managers and farmers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the reporting partner told Daily NK that city officials and laborers, who came to one of the farms in Kaepung County to conduct agitation activities, had summoned all the farmers to listen to their propaganda speeches for over an hour despite the farmers having their hands full with unfinished work. This led the farmers to question \u201cwhether these actions were really proper during such a busy period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the farmers expressed his opinion about this loudly with little reservation, saying that \u201cwhile such agitation activities are good, it is a waste of time during this busy period when much labor is needed in the fields.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the farmer complained that \u201csummoning farmers to participate in these activities during working hours impedes the fulfillment of production goals,\u201d adding that \u201cone should come to the farms fully committed to help with the farm work, and not hinder progress if assistance can\u2019t be provided.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He went on to remark that \u201cthe whole city is singing and dancing, engrossed in agitation activities, which instead has turned out to be a hindrance,\u201d echoing the sentiments of the farmers as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner said that this farmer was reported to the village-level party committee for ideological deviation, and subsequently summoned to write a letter of self-criticism. He then received a stern warning from the committee, stating that a repeat of such actions would incur even greater repercussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoth the ordinary farmers\u2019 and farm managers\u2019 disapproval towards the committee\u2019s policy of agitation activities cannot be openly displayed,\u201d the reporting partner said. \u201cThe farmers have, amongst themselves, been criticizing the committee for its continued lack of understanding about the central workings of agricultural work, despite the longstanding presence of these farmers who go about working tirelessly and relentlessly year after year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by Marc Yeo Yi Fei. 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\/20230502-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the city of Kaesong are expressing their discontent at the city\u2019s party committee, which is entirely preoccupied with agitation activities despite the current busy farming season, Daily NK has learned. \u201cThe farmers\u2019 simmering dissatisfaction with Kaesong\u2019s city party committee stems from the committee\u2019s exclusive focus on agitation activities, specifically the allocation of political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":51603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,869],"tags":[123,1656],"class_list":["post-54859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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