{"id":61858,"date":"2024-11-19T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=61858"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:48:55","slug":"kaechon-stores-raided-over-private-salt-trade-as-winter-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kaechon-stores-raided-over-private-salt-trade-as-winter-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaechon stores raided over private salt trade as winter approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inspectors from Kaechon&#8217;s commerce department have confiscated goods from state-run stores after discovering they were selling privately-sourced salt and salted seafood. The crackdown comes as stores had turned to private investors to meet high winter demand for these essential items in the South Pyongan province city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a source in the province recently, the issue was that the managers of state-run stores had not reported their purchase of additional items to the city\u2019s commerce department because they intended to keep the proceeds for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe government bans individual transactions to prevent retail distribution outside of the state\u2019s control. But since the stores struggle to make ends meet with products supplied by the state, their managers keep making hush-hush deals with individuals who provide other items to sell,\u201d the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt the time of the inspection, the store managers appealed to the inspectors from the commerce department not to have the extra items confiscated. But the next day, staff from the supply department of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaechon Area Coal Mining Company <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">came by and carted off all the items,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stores ultimately had to allow their stock to be confiscated since they had obviously disobeyed state regulations. The individual investors who had supplied the products in the first place agreed to write off the cost of the salt and salted seafood, which were not too expensive anyway. The investors decided not to make a fuss about the loss because they need to keep working with the state-run stores in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even so, the store managers have expressed their annoyance at the city commerce department. They say the department went too far when it confiscated all their extra products despite knowing full well state-run stores have to diversify their products if they are to meet state-mandated quotas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cQuite a bit of salt and salted seafood was confiscated in the inspection. But when managers looked into where the confiscated supplies were taken, they found that most of them had gone to the dormitories of workers at coal mines under the Kaechon Area Coal Mining Company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workers\u2019 dormitories are communal living areas for mine workers without families who have volunteered to come here from other areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities have stressed the need for party and government agencies to proactively supply these workers who have volunteered for jobs at mines and other hardship positions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After learning that the confiscated goods had been sent to the mine workers\u2019 dormitories, the state-run stores lodged a complaint with the city that the inspection had been used as an excuse to nab supplies the city was supposed to provide the workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe state-run stores have been private stores in all but name for some time now. But the city commerce department occasionally comes up with various excuses for \u2018inspecting\u2019 the stores and confiscating their goods. The reality is that store managers can do little but grin and bear it,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>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\/20241113-2\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspectors from Kaechon&#8217;s commerce department have confiscated goods from state-run stores after discovering they were selling privately-sourced salt and salted seafood. 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