Minitrue: Meat Soup in North Korea

Minitrue: Meat Soup in North Korea

The following  instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. 

State Council Information Office: All websites are asked to immediately delete the article “North Korean Defector Says Average Person Can Have Meat Soup Once a Month.” (March 19, 2014)

国信办:请各网站立即删除《脱北者透露朝鮮普通人1個月已能吃上1次肉湯》一文。

The article, which appeared this morning on the People’s Daily overseas Chinese-language website Haiwai Wang (海外網), opens with North Korean defector Park Ju-hui describing improvements to middle class life in his hometown of Hyesan since the famine of the 1990s. “Seven out of ten households have a color TV. The average person can have meat soup once a month… The quality of life has really improved” (10戶里有7戶裝了彩電,普通人一個月能吃上一次肉湯……生活質量有了很大提高).

The report is still available on Tencent [zh] as of this posting, but has already been removed from Haiwai Wang and NetEase.

Read the original article on CDT Chinese [zh].

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