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| There are complaints among people outside of Pyongyang about not being able to eat dog meat to “beat the heat,” the source said. Dog meat served at House of Sweet Meat in Pyongyang.(Photo by=AP) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] North Korean authorities are urgently trying to buy up dogs from several parts of the country for dog meat restaurants in Pyongyang, Daily NK has learned. “The authorities have ordered that officials in several areas of the country, including Pakchon County, buy up dogs weighing 15 kilograms or larger and send them to Pyongyang,” a North Pyongan Province-based source told Daily NK yesterday.
The order directed local officials to send the dogs to 36 well-known dog meat restaurants in Pyongyang.For seven days, Pakchon County officials reportedly purchased dogs weighing 15 to 18 kilograms from dog owners and sent a total of 720 kilograms worth of dogs to Pyongyang. Local officials in the county reportedly claimed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was “missing sleep at night” worrying about whether Pyongyang denizens would be able to eat and that “we [people outside of Pyongyang] need to help lessen his worries.”
“The government didn’t pay for the dogs with cash,” the source said. “Local party officials promised they would pay the dog owners with a certificate guaranteeing them rice or Chinese-made [cooking] oil by Oct. 10.” This order made it difficult for dog meat restaurants outside Pyongyang since dog meat prices increased.
