North Korea Reportedly Resettles 10,000 Homes to Make Highway Along Chinese Border
Eminent domain is something used in the US as well that forces people to relocate thus North Korea probably should not be criticized for forcing people to move for a public works project like a highway. However, the article is probably accurate that the highway is being built to make it a little more difficult to defect to China:
The North Korean regime has resettled some 10,000 households to build a 270 km highway section along the Chinese border, a source said last Friday.
“The aim is to prevent people from fleeing the North,” the source said. Construction of the highway, which runs from Hyesan, Ryanggang Province to Musan, North Hamgyong Province, is nearly complete.
The regime reportedly forced the residents out because the border regions along the Apnok and Duman rivers are notoriously porous, and defections and smuggling are rife. [Chosun Ilbo via reader tip]
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I believe it’s “eminent domain” not “imminent domain”
@1- Good catch correction made.
Actually, it sounds like a case of Imminent eminent domain.
…so both you suckas is wrong!
“Eminent domain is something used in the US as well that forces people to relocate thus North Korea probably should not be criticized for forcing people to move for a public works project like a highway.”
North Korea uses it to build a barrier for keeping people in the country.
America uses it to hook up crony capitalists for “the public good”… paying “fair market value” and then transferring the land to another private owner who (usually but not always) builds something that “improves the tax base”.
For more, see the Supreme Court decision, “Kelo v. City of New London”.