Emphasis on land management project and order to “reduce market operating hours”

It has been reported that North Hamgyong Province has issued instructions to reduce market operating hours until the end of November and to focus on land management in the fall.

A North Hamgyong Province source told Daily NK on the 7th, “The North Hamgyong Province Party Committee mobilized all market merchants and inminban street women (housewives) in all cities and counties in the province, including Chongjin City, on the 2nd of this month to actively participate in regional land management. “We gave instructions to reduce the market operating hours in the morning,” he said.

This is part of the nationwide autumn land management mobilization project. North Korea is mobilizing its residents to plant trees, repair roads, clean up rivers and rivers, and construct hedgerows every spring and fall with the goal of protecting the ecological environment and preventing disasters.

According to the provincial party’s instructions, each market and people’s unit was assigned a section in charge, and in the case of the market in particular, it is said that a group was formed centered on the stalls for each item and immediately began executing the task.

According to the source, in this order, the provincial party emphasized the need for strict supervision and control to prevent the phenomenon of not constructing in accordance with standard construction methods and scientific design standards.

He then urged people to break the practice of reporting exaggerated results when reporting performance and to make sure to record results that are consistent with performance. The goal is to review the performance by summarizing the project based on thorough facts.

In addition, the provincial party pointed out that environmental protection and nature protection are also important factors, emphasizing the need to ensure that residents undertaking land management projects do not irresponsibly destroy the environment. The explanation is that it is paradoxical to destroy the environment just because the land management project is important, and it actually causes side effects, so it is pointed out that we must carefully coordinate what needs to be done while protecting the environment and nature.

In addition, as the land management project is a sustainable project, the provincial party urged workers not to let residents do as they please, but to go to the field and work together to demonstrate responsibility.

Meanwhile, the provincial party stated that it must fight against various negative factors in the land management project and build a tighter land management system.

Meanwhile, it is reported that dissatisfaction is growing among market merchants and members of the People’s Unit (North Korea Socialist Women’s Alliance) mobilized for the land management project.

The source said, “The market merchants, most of whom are women, as well as the women’s union members, are criticizing the market, asking if it is right to reduce the operation hours of the market and manage the land when they should immediately prepare for winter.”