{"id":61321,"date":"2024-10-04T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T05:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=61321"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:42:27","slug":"secret-shipments-north-korea-hidden-relief-efforts-jagang-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/secret-shipments-north-korea-hidden-relief-efforts-jagang-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret shipments: N. Korea&#8217;s hidden flood relief efforts in Jagang province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently smuggled in relief supplies to flood-stricken regions of Jagang province, including many items subject to international sanctions on the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Pyongan province said recently that \u201cmany recovery supplies entered the country through the customs house in Sinuiju on Sept. 18\u201d and that it \u201ctook six hours for all the supplies to enter.\u201d In other words, so many supplies came from China that it took from 6 a.m. to noon to import them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Items that passed through customs at Sinuiju included building supplies for homes, roads and factories, parts for construction equipment and foodstuffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, architectural rebar, steel, aluminum, waterproofing supplies, road paving equipment, excavator and crane parts, truck tires and high-pressure pumps were imported through so-called state smuggling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.N. Security Council resolution 2379, adopted in December 2017, forbids exporting or transferring all industrial machinery, transportation equipment, steel and other metals to North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because many of the imported items were subject to sanctions, the North Koreans chose to bring them into the country through state smuggling. The Daily NK could not confirm just how much material was imported, but the source said 14 ten-ton trucks carried the cargo into the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Daily NK understands that the supplies were imported through state smuggling led by the trade management bureau of Jagang province and passed through Sinuiju customs with the help of North Pyongan province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities gave the customs house in Sinuiju little advance warning, suddenly informing it just seven hours before the smuggling operation began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities appear to have issued relevant orders only on the day of the operation to prevent word of the state smuggling from leaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the trade management bureau of Jagang province originally tried to import the relief items through the local customs house in Manpo because the goods were supplies the province needed for flood recovery efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Chinese traders asked to transport the cargo through the Dandong-Sinuiju route because roads in Tonghua, Jilin province, were damaged in the recent flooding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response, the trade management bureau of Jagang province asked North Pyongan province for cooperation and imported the supplies through the customs house in Sinuiju.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Severe flood damage to munitions factories in Jagang province<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the North Korean authorities have not revealed the exact extent of flood damage in Jagang province, but it was reportedly so severe that relief work remains at its height even two months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With damage to munition factories in the province especially severe, the authorities reportedly imported large amounts of construction supplies needed to rebuild the plants through the latest state smuggling operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the authorities also plan to provide munition factory workers with the foodstuffs imported by Jagang province\u2019s trade management bureau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFlood damage in Jagang province was more severe than you\u2019d think,\u201d the source said. \u201cSeveral more imports of such supplies will be needed to provide all the material needed to recover from the flood damage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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\/20240927-3\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently smuggled in relief supplies to flood-stricken regions of Jagang province, including many items subject to international sanctions on the country. 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