{"id":55748,"date":"2023-08-03T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=55748"},"modified":"2023-08-03T00:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:24:38","slug":"ordinary-north-koreans-forced-provide-food-construction-teams-yanggang-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/ordinary-north-koreans-forced-provide-food-construction-teams-yanggang-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary N. Koreans forced to provide food to construction teams in Yanggang Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities are forcing ordinary people to provide food to party members mobilized for rural construction work in Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRice was already collected in Sinuiju at the beginning of this month for the teams of party members that are leaving for Yanggang Province to build houses in rural areas there. And now city residents are being asked once again to donate food, which is provoking discontent,\u201d a source in North Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the city of Sinuiju had <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (neighborhood watch units) instruct each family at the beginning of this month to donate two kilograms of rice for party members on the rural construction work teams. Families without rice on hand were asked to donate KPW 10,000 cash instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But recently, the neighborhood watch units held another round of meetings to inform families that they were expected to donate food on a voluntary basis to the construction work teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this process, the leader of one neighborhood watch unit in Sinuiju got in a scuffle with local residents after calling out individual families who had not been able to make a two kilogram donation and pressuring them to donate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFamilies who are doing well and have money to spare could give a little more, but poor families who haven\u2019t so much as seen a bowl of rice in months get stressed out whenever they\u2019re told to donate. The argument broke out after people lost their temper over the unit head acting like families were holding back on purpose while knowing full well about their actual circumstances,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents of North Hamgyong Province have also been frustrated about being coerced into making nominally \u201cvoluntary\u201d donations of rice, which are used to support teams of party members doing rural construction work in Yanggang Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTimes are so tough right now that people often say they\u2019d die happy if they could only eat their fill. So it\u2019s no wonder people are upset that the government keeps telling them to make donations, voluntary or not. Some people gripe that the housing construction work is pointless since it\u2019s just a way for blood-sucking bureaucrats to win brownie points,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQuite a few people are angry at the government for bringing party members together from all over the country to refurbish the rural areas in Yanggang Province while expecting ordinary people to provide all their provisions without covering any of the costs on its own,\u201d the source added.<\/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\/20230728-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities are forcing ordinary people to provide food to party members mobilized for rural construction work in Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cRice was already collected in Sinuiju at the beginning of this month for the teams of party members that are leaving for Yanggang Province to build houses in rural areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":51818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[140,855,1656],"class_list":["post-55748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-construction","tag-housing","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ordinary N. 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