Archive for the ‘Sunam market’ Category  North Korea begins
closing wholesale markets  Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) NK Brief No.10-01-08-1
North Korean authorities appear to be closing regional, large-
scale wholesale markets, one after another. According to the
latest newsletter from the North Korean human rights group Good
Friends (January 6), “Based on a Cabinet measure passed on
December 30 of last year, North Korean authorities will suspend
operations management of the Sunam Market in Cheongjin [LOCATION
HERE] from the end of this March, effectively deciding to close
[the market].”  Like the South Pyeongan Province Pyeongseong
Market [LOCATION HERE] reportedly closed last year, the Sunam
Market, North Korea’s representative wholesale market, was built
less than five years ago. Good Friends reported that provincial
authorities from North Hamgyeong Province plan to raze the
market, located between Chumok and Cheongnam neighborhoods, and
build a modern park and resid