[imText1]As people are openly complaining about the North Korean economic crisis and the conflicted social situation, the conflict between the young and old generations is becoming serious. <\/p>\n
A source from North Korea said on the 22nd, in an interview with Daily NK, that \u201cThe aged, those over 50, ridicule North Korea\u2019s policies, openly calling the military-first policy a \u201cblank cannon (errant lie)\u201d policy and the \u2018great strong property country\u2019 as the \u2018great poverty country.\u2019 In early May, 9 old men in Eorang, North Hamkyung Province were investigated by the National Security Agency for expressing their complaints about society.\u201d <\/p>\n
He explained that \u201cSome young persons contacted the National Security Agency and accused the aged of complaining about the latest social situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were meetings among retired persons in their 60s to gather together, to fish and assist each other in farming in Eorang, North Hamkyung Province, a county on the East Sea. <\/p>\n
The aged in this county are living in comparative in comfort by fishing and sometimes exchanging fish for some liquor. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe old men gathered together, enjoying fishing, and young fishermen joined them there, so the group was getting bigger. However, the Safety Agency and Security Agency didn\u2019t care because they knew that the gentlemen just gathered for leisure,\u201d said the source. <\/p>\n
In late April, a few fishermen drank liquor and sang a revolutionary song, \u201cThe song of love for a comrade,\u201d but they also expressed their complaints about the current groups of cadres, saying that \u201cthe situation was better when the Supreme Leader was alive,\u201d according to the source.<\/p>\n
It was reported that the old men said that \u201cIt is a blank cannon policy, period,\u201d and \u201cOur fatherland is the \u2018great poverty nation, \u2018great kotjebi nation,\u2019 or \u2018great cadres\u2019 nation where only cadres can live comfortably\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
After drinking, a young fisherman who associated with the old men reported them to the National Security Agency in Eorang, so the NSA started investigating all the elderly who were in that place. <\/p>\n
According to the source, the old men and their families appealed to the Security Agency saying that \u201cWhy does singing the song of love for comrades and longing for the Supreme Leader (Kim Il Sung) make us guilty?\u201d and the agents replied to them \u201cThe significance of singing songs is different depending on the purposes or places.\u201d<\/p>\n
The source added that \u201cThere were many who used to be cadres of the Party and whose sons work for the offices of the People\u2019s Safety Agency and for the army, so they avoided punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the Security Agency of Eorang requested them to submit written oaths to disband the association, in consideration of their sons\u2019 careers. <\/p>\n
The source relayed that \u201cThese days, the old men mostly are missing the Kim Il Sung period, saying that we should go back to that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s youths believe that the country started rotting even before Kim Il Sung died and that we should have followed that Chinese way at the time,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
However, only a few youths reportedly think that since the death of Kim Il Sung, North Korean society has faced a worse economic crisis and a more conflicted situation and that the violence of cadres has been worsening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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