[imText1]Yanji, China — A secret trial was recently held for 47-year-old Kim Tae Gil, director of Hoiryeong People’s Safety Agency who was incarcerated in November 2007 for drug offenses at the prison of the National Security Agency of Hoiryeong.
“On January 30, a secret trial for Kim Tae Gil took place at a mine machine factory,” said a source from Hoiryeong on February 3. The source said, “Another man and woman were also put on trial together with Kim Tae Gil.”
“The woman was tried for murdering her husband, head of Hoiryeong Agricultural Cooperative Management Committee,” the source said.
Kim Tae Gil, then director of Hoiryeong People’s Safety Agency was arrested on the charges of drug use with his wife and drug trafficking in China and put into the prison of Hoiryeong Security Agency in November last year. It is known that Kim came to possess drug while working as a drug investigator. DailyNK released an exclusive report on this drug case on December 5, 2007.
In the mean time, North Korean authorities have recently claimed that this year they would bring attention to drug problems across the country and do their best to eradicate the production, trade and consumption of “bingdu(氷毒),” Philopon.
Good Friends, a South Korean refugee relief organization dedicated to North Korean people said in its regular report in January 2008, “It is not ordinary people but those working at public security agencies who are greatly concerned with the authorities’ commitment to drug control. It is known that a great number of security officers are involved in drug use and trafficking.”
