{"id":55532,"date":"2023-07-04T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=55532"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:38:17","slug":"chongjin-residents-unhappy-paying-nonexistent-electricity-water-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/chongjin-residents-unhappy-paying-nonexistent-electricity-water-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Chongjin residents unhappy with paying for nonexistent electricity, water services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chongjin residents are expressing displeasure with the government&#8217;s compulsory collection of fees for electricity and water, despite their failure to properly provide either service, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChongjinites have recently been experiencing daily inconveniences due to frequent power and water outages,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cNonetheless, neighborhood watch unit leaders or the heads of sanitation teams regularly go around to collect electricity and water fees from households.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the government has never done a good job of supplying electricity or water in the past, but the situation grew even worse in June. He said power is either out the entire day or comes for just 20 or 30 minutes, while water is supplied just once every 10 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, the authorities are squeezing people for electricity and water fees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, in one neighborhood watch unit in Chongjin\u2019s Chongam District, the head of the unit went around to each household to collect fees for electricity on June 24 even thought electricity had barely been supplied to the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faced with having to pay for electricity he had not received, one person complained: \u201cHow the heck can you collect fees for just a few minutes of electricity? I\u2019ll accept it if you provide electric lighting for more than half the month, at least. Since I don\u2019t have money to pay, go and report me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of water fees, the authorities pass down the expenses of drawing water, which has also led to public discontent, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea uses gravity fed water systems that draw water into water tanks at higher elevations and let gravity supply the water to households. However, the country&#8217;s poor electricity supplies mean that the authorities are charging locals for the oil needed to run the water pumps used to draw the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though people suffer great inconveniences from poor infrastructure and chronic supply shortages, the government is absorbed in collecting fees rather than solving actual problems, the source claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople have to do everything on their own, including acquiring rice, electricity, and water,\u201d he said. \u201cPublic discontent will only grow if the government goes on collecting fees for services it doesn&#8217;t provide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. 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\/20230629-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chongjin residents are expressing displeasure with the government&#8217;s compulsory collection of fees for electricity and water, despite their failure to properly provide either service, Daily NK has learned. \u201cChongjinites have recently been experiencing daily inconveniences due to frequent power and water outages,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Thursday, speaking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":45153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[1002,1656],"class_list":["post-55532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-electricity","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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