Kim Jong-un’s sadistic punishment of gardeners because their plants do not bloom

Gardeners of North Korea they were sent to forced labor camps by the country’s authorities. The reason is that the regimen Kim Jong-un He considers these flower growers responsible for the fact that thousands of flowers will not be ready and in their splendor for the festivities for the birthday of the leader’s late father, Kim Jong-il, which will take place on February 16.

The flowers, which apparently will not be developed for the celebration of the most important date in North Koreaare the begonias “Kimjongilia”, that bear that name, precisely, in honor of the father of the current North Korean leader Kim Jong-undied in 2011, when he was 69 years old.

The event you remember to the North Korean leader is also known as Shining Star Day. On the occasion, the streets of the country are filled with the aforementioned red flowers in his honor. However, this year it seems that will not be the case. And the fault, for the government, is the gardeners and their “negligence.” Although this would not be the whole truth of this matter.

According to the American newspaper Daily NK, the problems for flowers and his lack of maturation They started some time before. It was with the scarcity of the supply of firewood used by flower growers to create the ideal temperature and humidity for their cultivation in their greenhouses that it meant that the kimjongilia did not have the right environment for their development.

Forced labor

But the same medium also reports that these arguments were taken as excuses by the North Korean authorities, and gardeners were directly accused of neglecting their plants. As a result, some were severely punished.

One of the stories of these sanctions that transcended it was Han’s casethe manager of a greenhouse in Samsu County dedicated to the cultivation of kimjongilias who was sentenced to spend six months in a labor camp or gulag.

when last month Han told officials in Kim Jong-un’s dictatorship that he would not have the flowers ready by February. because he had not been able to get enough firewood for his proper development, He was convicted of negligence.

Besides him, another worker from the same farm in his 40s, identified as Choi, was accused of not adjusting the temperature of the greenhouse boilers “correctly”, and he was sentenced to live three months also in a forced labor camp.

A third greenhouse worker, meanwhile, last name Kimreceived calls every day since January from the authorities asking him to inform them about the state of the Kimjongilias and to write and submit self-critical reports explaining why the flowers would not be ready by February 16.

Kimjongilia and kimilsugia

The Kimjongilia was created by a Japanese botanist named Kamo Mototeru, who held the late North Korean dictator in high regard Kim Jong-il. The man spent 20 years developing that plant, which turned out to be a hybrid from the tuberous begonia native to South America.

The Kimjongilia is known in North Korea as the “immortal flower” and it is found in special greenhouses that are dedicated to growing this product throughout the country. Sometimes when difficulties arise in the cultivation of this flower, hundreds of them are imported from China.

Every year events are held in North Korea that showcase both lto Kimjongilia as the Kimilsungia, a species of hybrid orchid named in honor of Kim Il-sungthe first leader of the country, father of Kin Jong-il and grandfather of the current dictator Kim Jong Un.