[this is a SKOR publication w sources in NKOR]
[DailyNK] North Korea has ordered major provincial organizations, military-run factories and other facilities to prepare a months' worth of food, signalling that the state is unable to provide rations anymore, Daily NK has learned.
"The order was handed down by provincial party committees to local people's committees, Ministry of State Security offices, police stations, military-run factories run by the Second Economic Committee [of the Workers' Party of Korea], and even orphanages," a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on Feb. 26.
"This is the first time the party has handed down an order for these organizations to prepare a months' worth of food. It's particularly noteworthy because North Korea isn't facing the threat of war," the source continued. |