{"id":2166,"date":"2016-03-17T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.01.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang-2\/2016\/03\/report\/20160317_people-sanction-kim-jong-un-lives\/"},"modified":"2018-08-24T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T09:21:32","slug":"20160317_people-sanction-kim-jong-un-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2016\/03\/society-economy\/20160317_people-sanction-kim-jong-un-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"People believe that the sanction should hit hard on Kim Jong-un and the high ranks, but inevitably it is hitting on people\u2019s lives as well\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Reference Photo) Female street vendors at the front of Shinuiju station. It seems that the ordinary people are inevitably feeling an effect of sanction such as inflation. November 2012 by ASIAPRESS<\/p><\/div>\n

Resolution \u201c2270\u201d of March 3rd to impose sanctions on North Korea, which is said to be the strictest one made by UN Security Council. Attention should be drawn on its effectiveness because it is dependent on the Chinese cooperation. Diverse voices are heard from the inside of North Korea. Last week, we have contacted a woman in her 30s in northern area of North Korea.<\/p>\n

She is running a small business and her husband is working at a state enterprise. Her living standard can be said to be an average ordinary one in the country. She doesn\u2019t know the details of the UN sanctions and said: \u201cWe never mind whether they impose sanctions or not, since it is really hard for us to manage a life. There is hardly any influence on the ordinary people\u2019s life (from sanction), isn\u2019t there? The government doesn\u2019t distribute rice or rations, do they? We just barely make ends meet.<\/p>\n

She believes that there wouldn\u2019t be any effects on her life since she is making a living by doing business, not depending on the state rations system which has already long gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We delivered the information that the coal export, a major item for earning foreign currency, would halt as China decides to act positively on the sanction this time. Her response was: \u201cOur lives have always been under strain by the country. Even if there would be new situational strain and sanction, it doesn\u2019t matter. And have there been one or two sanctions only (in the past)? The ordinary folks are supposed to adopt themselves to difficult situation. Those who would feel difficulties (by sanctions) are the people in the high ranks.<\/p>\n

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Rice stalls at a market place of Hyesan city in Yanggang province. The influence of the sanction began to appear in markets with rising prices of the products from China. November 2012 by ASIAPRESS<\/p><\/div>\n

It is common knowledge that the sanctions by the UN have been imposed on North Korea because of its rockets launching and nuke tests. But the authorities propagates that the imperialist America and its followers blocked the nation economically. North Korea could earn foreign currency through expanded trading volume with China, which made the nation feel free from the sanction. They have not regarded it as a threat to the people\u2019s lives and the government.<\/p>\n

When we asked who the high ranks are, she replied: \u201cThey are those who earn foreign currency, bribe taking officials and Pyongyang\u201d. If the sanction is getting tougher, they are the very people who would be hit hard\u201d.<\/p>\n

Whom is she referring as \u2018Pyongyang\u2019? After a little bit of hesitating, she replied that it meant Kim Jong-un and said: \u201cKim Jong-un fears so much that he would be eaten by the US, thus trying to make nuclear bombs. We are talking each other that Kim Jong-un is going too far because he is too young to know.<\/p>\n

This woman predicts that the sanction at this time would greatly affect the pivot of Kim Jong-un\u2019s regime rather than the ordinary people. However, if China executes the sanction, it would probably affect the people\u2019s lives with rising consumer prices due to the decreased foreign currency earning.<\/p>\n

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