Kim doesn’t look like he’s starving.
Via Daily Beast:
No work breaks, no travel, and no food (again). The Dear Leader launched an unprecedented crackdown on his beleaguered masses to ‘celebrate’ a rare Congress for his elite this weekend.
Kim Jong Un has imposed extraordinary social controls across North Korea—and especially in the capital of Pyongyang—in the run-up to the Workers’ Party 7th Congress, which starts Friday. The once-in-a-generation event—the last was held in 1980—is supposed to celebrate Kim’s rule, but in recent months observers have been seeing signs of a breakdown of order and a descent back into destitution.Kim mobilized all North Koreans to prepare for the event. The Congress, for instance, caps a “70-day struggle,” a period when workers were forced to labor around the clock, often on projects conceived to commemorate the party gathering. Unfortunate citizens temporarily disappeared, especially from open-air markets, as security officials press-ganged them, according to Seoul’s Chosen Ilbo newspaper.