{"id":65805,"date":"2025-12-19T06:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=65805"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:37:17","slug":"high-school-gang-fights-and-street-robberies-spike-in-n-korea-during-kim-jong-il-mourning-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/high-school-gang-fights-and-street-robberies-spike-in-n-korea-during-kim-jong-il-mourning-period\/","title":{"rendered":"High school gang fights and street robberies spike in N. Korea during Kim Jong Il mourning period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Packs of truant high school students in Sinuiju robbed younger students of money and clothes, sparking parental distress and teacher anxiety as schools feared collective punishment if incidents escalated during the politically sensitive Dec. 17 mourning period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;Recently in Sinuiju, some high school students didn&#8217;t attend class and instead formed gangs that strutted around the street in a bloody mess after fighting other gangs, or calling over other students to beat them and take their valuables, and such incidents were frequent,&#8221; a Daily NK source in North Pyongan province said recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">For example, high school students robbed a pair of second-year middle school students in an alleyway on Dec. 10, taking their pencil cases, new notebooks and 20,000 North Korean won ($2.76).<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">On Dec. 12, four high school students who were walking on the street were forcibly deprived of their outerwear and belts by a pack of about 10 other high school students. The gang beat the students and took their clothes after they initially refused their demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;These sorts of things were happening frequently in December,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;Most of the students who did these sorts of things said they were going to school, but then they didn&#8217;t. They formed gangs and went around engaging in gangster-like behavior, robbing younger or weaker students of their money and possessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\"><strong>Schools unable to identify perpetrators as parents demanded action<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Parents of young students were increasingly distressed. Some picked up their children from school or visited schools to demand that they take measures to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">However, schools were doing little as they had been unable to ascertain the identity of those students engaged in violence and theft, or where they went to school. As for onsite responses, homeroom teachers were telling students to avoid wandering around until late and to go home early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Some schools worried that if these incidents became a big deal during the mourning period for late leader Kim Jong Il, the students responsible, and even the school, would come under fire and be held collectively responsible. In response, they were working hard to catch truant students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;Homeroom teachers were more nervous than usual, closely working with parents to ensure students showed up at school,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;Because many students told their parents they were going to school but ran off on the way, both teachers and parents worried that a needless incident might occur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;During the mourning period for our lost leader, events like drinking parties and weddings are banned, and you have to be careful about even smiling,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;But with students \u2014 far from mourning \u2014 going around engaged in hooliganism, those who were responsible for them were really anxious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Even though incidents that occurred during the mourning period could blow up into serious political issues, students were unhesitatingly engaged in problematic behavior, with schools, teachers and parents worried as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;If students got beaten, they should at least pretend to cry, but kids nowadays don&#8217;t even do that, so teachers and parents complain that they have no idea what to do,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20251216-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packs of truant high school students in Sinuiju robbed younger students of money and clothes, sparking parental distress and teacher anxiety as schools feared collective punishment if incidents escalated during the politically sensitive Dec. 17 mourning period. &#8220;Recently in Sinuiju, some high school students didn&#8217;t attend class and instead formed gangs that strutted around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":37260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>High school gang fights and street robberies spike in N. 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