{"id":2822,"date":"2016-12-02T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.01.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang-2\/2016\/12\/report\/20161202-pyongyang-homeless\/"},"modified":"2021-07-13T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T06:34:02","slug":"20161202-pyongyang-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2016\/12\/movie\/20161202-pyongyang-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video Report] The hidden homeless of Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LLlrKBhkbLg?list=PLpCEn7dS6-toFNQEV-oefnOBd7ZgUl0kC\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang is a \u2018staged city\u2019, where outsiders are not privy to glimpses of everyday life. But Pyongyang is home to a large number of Kotchebi, homeless people. An ASIAPRESS partner in Pyongyang, Koo Kwang-ho, filmed the extremely poor people in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea, in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLpCEn7dS6-toFNQEV-oefnOBd7ZgUl0kC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ceASIAPRESS rimjingang playlist<\/a>&gt;&gt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A boy, eating bread given by a neighbor at a back alley behind apartments, said that \u201cMy stepfather said he couldn\u2019t afford to feed me, so he beat me and kicked me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Taesongsan Park, in a suburb of Pyongyang, children were enjoying an outing to a park and a young guy picked up food they drop.<\/p>\n<p>A grandmother and a grandson, after being kicked out by her son-in-law because he couldn\u2019t afford to feed them anymore, lived in an air-raid shelter trace in a suburb of Pyongyang. They hide in a hillside in an effort to evade detention by the state security. There was neither electricity nor window, so it was pitch dark.<\/p>\n<p>According to Koo Kwang-ho, \u2018Kotchebi\u2019 in Pyongyang, not in rural areas, can easily get caught and sent to the detention centers. The regulations are tougher in the capital city because it attracts a number of foreign tourists. Therefore, \u2018Kotchebi\u2019 find it hard to even roam around the city during daytime.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kotchebi\u2019 living in Pyongyang, the beautifully organized \u2018revolutionary capital\u2019, always need to evade the state security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2016\/11\/movie\/20161110-kotchebi-girls-sexually-abused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[Video Report] Kotchebi Girls, Sexually Abused and Exploited<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2012\/07\/books\/release\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2193 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rimjingang_banner001.gif\" alt=\"Rimjingang_banner001\" width=\"280\" height=\"120\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">* <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2012\/07\/news\/north-korean-reporters\/\">Editor\u2019s notes on North Korean reporters<\/a><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/category\/report\/\"><\/a> <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/category\/pdf-archive\/\">ARCHIVE(pdf) &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/img\/map\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DPRK MAP &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang is a \u2018staged city\u2019, where outsiders are not privy to glimpses of everyday life. But Pyongyang is home to a lar\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}