{"id":1193505,"date":"2022-01-06T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193505"},"modified":"2022-01-06T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:04:32","slug":"report-north-korean-military-fears-rising-trend-of-insubordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-north-korean-military-fears-rising-trend-of-insubordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: North Korean Military Fears &#039;Rising Trend of Insubordination&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-north-korean-military-fears-rising-trend-of-insubordination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">As many as ten soldiers in the North Korean military force, the Korean People\u2019s Army, allegedly \u201cconfronted their superiors\u201d in a \u201cviolent\u201d manner over the last three months of 2021, Radio Free Asia (RFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/korea\/military-01042022113445.html\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday citing the account of an unnamed North Korean military official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last three months of 2021, as many as 10 soldiers have violently confronted their superiors nationwide,\u201d a Korean People\u2019s Army official from North Korea\u2019s northeastern province of North Hamgyong told RFA on December 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of November, a company-level officer of the 45th Division under the 9th Corps asked several times to his superior battalion to let him help solve a family issue and take care of his own personal health issue, but when he was ignored, he confronted his superior with a weapon while he was drunk,\u201d the anonymous&nbsp;North Korean army source told the news service.<\/p>\n<p>The source further alleged that a company-level officer in the Korean People\u2019s Army attempted suicide sometime in December after a supervisor denied his request for assistance with an undisclosed personal problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Locals in North Korea revealed in remarks to Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday that communist officials are encouraging civilians to eat less. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tTA8ZmXvHv\">https:\/\/t.co\/tTA8ZmXvHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1453500206889177088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEven earlier this month, in a unit under the 3rd Corps, a company-level officer had a personal problem and appealed to a superior to help solve it,\u201d the anonymous North Korean military told RFA on December 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when the senior officer ignored it, the company-level officer attempted to kill himself with a communication cable around his neck,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged confrontations have provoked concern among North Korean military leaders who \u201cfear\u201d the phenomenon may lead to \u201ca rising trend of insubordination within the military,\u201d according to RFA, a U.S. government-funded broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>RFA said its North Korean military \u201csources\u201d blamed the recent spate of disputes between soldiers and officers of the Korean People\u2019s Army on \u201cstresses presented by a worsening North Korean economy due in part to COVID [Chinese coronavirus] restrictions that have largely shut off trade with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Korean People\u2019s Army is fairly representative of the greater North Korean population, as Pyongyang requires every able-bodied man in North Korea to join the nation\u2019s armed forces for a minimum of seven years. Though long-stifled by Pyongyang\u2019s ruling Communist regime, the North Korean population has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/north-koreas-economy-struggles-sanctions-covid-19-weigh-2021-01-07\/\">suffered<\/a> an increase in hardship over the past two years since its leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered his country\u2019s border with China to close in January 2020 in response to the then-emerging Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19382722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237554651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19382722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237554651-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this picture taken on January 5, 2022, people take part in a demonstration march after the Pyongyang City rally to carry out the decision of the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. (KIM WON JIN\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The action ushered in an ongoing economic crisis that has pushed the nation to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s economy contracted by 4.5 percent in 2020 in direct response to its border shutdown with China, which is traditionally Pyongyang\u2019s top trading ally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks North Korea\u2019s steepest economic decline since the days of massive famine in the 1990s,\u201d the Brookings Institution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/11\/22\/north-korea-is-addressing-the-pandemic-in-its-style-that-means-leaving-a-lot-of-people-hungry\/\">observed<\/a> in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavy economic sanctions levied against North Korea since 2016 [to deter its nuclear proliferation] had already reduced external trade despite ongoing sanctions evasion,\u201d the Washington D.C.-based think tank noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as ten soldiers in the North Korean military force, the Korean People\u2019s Army, allegedly \u201cconfronted their superiors\u201d in a \u201cviolent\u201d manner over the last three months of 2021, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}