{"id":56958,"date":"2023-12-26T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=56958"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:14:25","slug":"pyongsong-launches-year-end-inspections-of-local-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/pyongsong-launches-year-end-inspections-of-local-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongsong launches year-end inspections of local markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commerce department of Pyongsong&#8217;s people\u2019s committee recently launched year-end financial inspections of local markets, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a Daily NK source in South Pyongan Province said Friday that Pyongsong\u2019s commerce department \u201cannounced financial inspection criterion last month and has been conducting financial inspections on all markets in the city since Dec. 1.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the source, the city\u2019s commercial department\u2019s inspection is focused on reviewing the yearly results of market management offices and determining if officials below the rank of office head have engaged in illegal activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commerce department said it would compare how much in taxes \u2014 including market taxes \u2014 market management offices have collected against their annual quotas, exhaustively inspecting how much extra money they have collected. In particular, it warned it would determine whether market management offices have properly paid their market tax proceeds into state coffers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city commerce department also plans to determine precisely how well market officials have cracked down on anti-socialist and non-socialist activities and how many products they have confiscated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inspectors plan to examine instances where market management offices confiscated goods after busting market vendors for selling items pilfered from factories or secretly dealing in South Korean products, which are strictly banned, as well as vendors surrendering their booths after being caught openly selling illegal merchandise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commerce department said this year saw the worst levels of collusion between market grain sellers and the heads of local state-run grain shops to buy low-price grain at the state-run shops to resell at high prices in the markets. The department warned that it would get to the bottom of the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe city commerce department intends to resolve the issue because although market grain sellers have repeatedly raised market grain prices by illegally colluding with state-run grain shops, markets have been unable to control it properly, inconveniencing the public,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city\u2019s commerce department said it would use the inspection to rank market management offices according to this year\u2019s results and draw up a competitive chart based on the rankings that would, in turn, be used to evaluate the performance of market management office heads this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMarket management offices are nervous with the city\u2019s commerce department warning office heads to prepare for dismissals, sackings or even reeducation through labor if the inspections uncover serious problems,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/em><\/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><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20231213-4\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20231127-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commerce department of Pyongsong&#8217;s people\u2019s committee recently launched year-end financial inspections of local markets, Daily NK has learned. 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