North Korea\u2019s military has dispatched a
\nspecial surveillance team to areas bordering with China to crack down on
\nresidents, patrol forces, and security agents that may be aiding and
\nabetting escapes to China, Daily NK has learned. <\/p>\n
\u201cAn inspection team made up of officers in The investigation, consisting mostly of Targets of the investigation encompass a These officials are suspected of taking According to the source, illegal phones out After the lull following the March Those on the watch lists due to prior North Korea\u2019s military has dispatched a special surveillance team to areas bordering with China to crack down on residents, patrol forces, and security agents that may be aiding and abetting escapes to China, Daily NK has learned. \u201cAn inspection team made up of officers in the military\u2019s Defense Security Command [DSC] was dispatched to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":30852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nthe military\u2019s Defense Security Command [DSC] was dispatched to the border,
\nwhere they\u2019re carrying out intensive investigation,\u201d a source from North
\nHamkyung Province told Daily NK on Thursday. \u201cThe team is made up of about ten
\npeople, and it will travel from Musan County in North Hamkyung Province to
\nother areas in order to carry out inspections on illegal activities.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nquestioning residents and guards in the border areas, are primarily
\nfocused on escapes, illegal crossing through the border rivers, and overseas
\nphone calls. \u201cThe team is not only arresting those involved with outsiders
\n(from China or South Korea) but also anyone who has turned a blind eye to
\nrelated activities,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nrange of personnel, including border patrol guards, soldiers stationed in the
\nborder area, local units from the Ministry of People\u2019s Security, and local
\nState Security Department [SSD] officials. The team wasted no time, \u201carriving
\non the scene and launching a full-scale investigation the very next day,\u201d she
\nasserted, adding that 3-4 border control officials affiliated with either the
\nMinistry of People\u2019s Security or the State Security Department have been called
\nin for questioning.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nbribes to turn a blind eye to North Korean residents intending to defect and
\nillegal crossing of the river, sometimes intended to defect but at other times
\nto facilitate smuggling or business transactions. \u201cAfter seeing persistent
\nillegal activity on among solider and security officials on the border continue
\nunabated, the DSC got involved,\u201d she explained.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nof the country have also been part of the investigation. The fact that this
\nrecent directive closely follows a similar one in March reflects not only the
\nrampant bribery prevalent along the porous border, but also a leadership
\ngrappling with the sisyphean battle of attempting to stymie it.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ninvestigation, tension is running high in the border area again. \u201cEspecially
\nsome of those with priors of illegal river crossing and\/or outbound phone calls
\nhave temporarily fled to areas further away from the border or are refraining
\nfrom calling out of the country,\u201d she said.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nactivities have no choice but to \u201cwait it out\u201d and continue \u201cliving in the
\ndark\u201d for the time being, the source concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"