{"id":61072,"date":"2024-09-06T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=61072"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:24:36","slug":"free-food-forced-thanks-inside-north-korea-flood-relief-efforts-uiju-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/free-food-forced-thanks-inside-north-korea-flood-relief-efforts-uiju-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Free food, forced thanks: Inside N. Korea&#8217;s flood relief efforts in Uiju county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following heavy rains in July, North Korea distributed two batches of food rations to residents of the flood-stricken Uiju county in North Pyongan province in late August, a source said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Committee ordered the food distribution, which included high-grade grain (wheat grains, wheat flour and corn), biscuits and bread. Each person was given food for one month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Pyongan province&#8217;s party committee told the flood victims that the grain they received &#8220;was not imported from other countries but was produced and processed in the country&#8221; and that &#8220;the biscuits and bread were also processed and packaged in domestic factories and only the best quality was selected for distribution.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Party officials also stressed to the flood victims that the food distribution represented North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s &#8220;great kindness and deep love for the people.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial party committee had families express their gratitude to Kim in person by standing in front of their rations and shouting, &#8220;Long live General Kim Jong Un, the bright sun of Juche Korea!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Recipients forced to write letters of thanks<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial party committee also had the recipients of the rations write letters expressing their gratitude for the free food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After receiving orders for the thank-you letters, the propaganda and agitation department of Uiju county&#8217;s party committee informed the recipients of the main ideological points they should cover in their letters. After the letters were written, they were collected by party officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;At present, the provincial party committee and Uiju county&#8217;s party committee have received all the letters of thanks from those living in the flooded areas. They&#8217;re also preparing an event where these letters can be delivered to the marshal to express the appreciation of the provincial residents after the flood reconstruction work is completed,&#8221; the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the flood victims in Uiju county are still living in tent shelters and have not received as many benefits as those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-korea-conducts-health-checkups-for-flood-victims-in-pyongyang\/\">who were brought to Pyongyang<\/a>, most of them are still grateful that the state is trying to solve various difficulties such as distributing free food, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;People who have not received rations for years are very grateful to receive a month&#8217;s worth of food for free. They&#8217;re also excited because they&#8217;re supposed to get more food at the end of September,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>The Daily NK works with a network of sources in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. For security reasons, their identities remain anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20240904-4\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following heavy rains in July, North Korea distributed two batches of food rations to residents of the flood-stricken Uiju county in North Pyongan province in late August, a source said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u00a0 The Central Committee ordered the food distribution, which included high-grade grain (wheat grains, wheat flour and corn), biscuits and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":61073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,681,1360],"tags":[135,683,696,715,743,767,1242,1986],"class_list":["post-61072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","category-society","tag-propaganda","tag-provincial-party-committee","tag-north-pyongan-province","tag-central-committee","tag-factories","tag-food","tag-flooding","tag-families"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free food, forced thanks: Inside N. 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