◆Military, Police, and Farms All Mobilized for Security
B said that due to these incidents, urban residents' access to rural areas has been strictly controlled.
"From July 25, all rural access has been controlled. Military checkpoints have been set up on roads leading to rural areas to crack down on whether people are carrying stolen crops."
Since the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020, individual economic activities such as commerce have been strictly restricted in North Korea. As the majority of urban residents had their cash income cut off, poverty spread, and more people went to rural areas to beg or steal. The bizarre phenomenon of organizing security teams to protect harvests stems from the Kim Jong-un regime's excessive economic control policies.
※ ASIAPRESS communicates with its reporting partners through Chinese cell phones smuggled into North Korea.
