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PearliePoo2

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1. Reading comments at Kos, there's this one:
Sat Apr 15, 2017, 08:16 AM
Apr 2017

The opening diary is wrong and should not have been featured.

I have posted an article and link below but wanted to tack this towards the top so people see it.

"The article I found says 600,000 non-Songbun were relocated.

Kim Jong-un orders 600,000 out of Pyongyang
Apr 12,2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently ordered the deportation of nearly 600,000 Pyongyang residents to the suburbs, a local source told the JoongAng Ilbo Monday.
The deportation represents one-fourth of Pyongyang’s current population of 2.6 million. It is not known when they will be forced to move or to where.
“Population control was the pretext of the latest order,” said the source, who asked for anonymity, “but in reality, the purpose is to ‘purify’ the North Korean capital and allow only the loyal elite class to live there.”
Among those who were chosen by authorities to move are people whose relatives defected to South Korea, had been jailed in a prison camp, used drugs or counterfeit money, and produced, distributed or sold pirated films from the South.
Those who were caught selling other illegally imported goods in a jangmadang, or North Korean black market, were excluded because such cases have become so prevalent that it is no longer considered a serious crime, the source said."
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3032113





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