Tag: Ministry of State Security
N. Korea freezes investigations ahead of party congress
North Korea's Ministry of State Security suspended all investigations and custodial proceedings on Feb. 8, ordering provincial bureaus onto emergency footing ahead of the...
Drug traffickers caught at N. Korean checkpoint with hundreds of grams...
Two North Korean drug traffickers were arrested at a checkpoint in North Hamgyong province in recent days after attempting to smuggle methamphetamine from Hamhung...
Over 50 detained in North Korea for watching Cho Yong-pil’s KBS...
North Korean state security agencies have detained dozens of people for watching videos of South Korean singer Cho Yong-pil's wildly popular "This Moment Forever"...
North Korea’s secret police crack down on officials’ wives consulting fortune...
The Ministry of State Security has ordered provincial bureaus to monitor nighttime movements and superstitious rituals as families fear personnel changes, with some paying...
North Korean logistics officers profiteer from grain collection as rice prices...
As officers from the logistics departments of government agencies begin collecting grain, they are profiteering by tampering with the ratio of rice received, as...
N. Korea claims near-total elimination of underground churches and prayer groups
The North Korean authorities have recently begun patting themselves on the back for bringing religion under control, claiming that "organized underground services and secret...
North Korea cracks down on tomb relocation rumor in South Hwanghae...
In some regions of South Hwanghae province, a baseless rumor is spreading that "disaster will strike your family if you don't move your ancestor's...
North Korea includes families of ‘war heroes’ in special amnesty for...
North Korea's special amnesty marking the 80th anniversary of the ruling party's founding this year included families of so-called "war heroes" deployed to fight...
China labels North Korean defectors as security threats under spy law...
China recently issued internal guidelines classifying North Korean defectors living in the country as potential national security risks.
A source in China told Daily NK...
Ministry of State Security gauges attitudes toward China ties after ambassador’s...
North Korea's Ministry of State Security has been canvassing public opinion about the column that Chinese ambassador Wang Yajun published in the Rodong Sinmun...
