North Korea\u2019s Reconnaissance General
\nBureau (RGB), tasked with intelligence operations both in the South and other
\ncountries, has been included on the UN\u2019s sanctions list for the first time.
\nGiven that the bureau has been at the forefront of espionage, terror attacks,
\nand abductions in neighboring countries, this was the right decision. <\/p>\n
The question now is whether the Based on records and testimony from The bureau owns dozens of \u2018trade vessels\u2019 North Korea has given vessels like Po Thong These bureau vessels also conceal their The reconnaissance bureau operates the In particular, unit 96 provides Russian Meanwhile, in Africa and the Middle East, These young men in their 20s return to Indeed, just yesterday North Korea\u2019s Party Moreover, within the same week, the NIS reported that it intercepted and shut down similar bids by North North Korea\u2019s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), tasked with intelligence operations both in the South and other countries, has been included on the UN\u2019s sanctions list for the first time. Given that the bureau has been at the forefront of espionage, terror attacks, and abductions in neighboring countries, this was the right decision. The question now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\ninternational community will be able to effectively carry out said punitive
\nactions against the reconnaissance bureau; in other words, will countries
\nactually be able to track down the office\u2019s artfully deceptive operations, painstakingly designed to work against international sanctions and pressure?<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ndefectors, in order to effectively impose sanctions against the bureau,
\ncountries will need to keep a close eye on the department in charge of securing
\nreconnaissance equipment and its workers. This is because the bureau first
\nemploys some of the most cutting-edge equipment for spying when it is planning
\nan attack.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nthat it uses for missions and also to secure capital. Along main ports near the
\nWest and East Sea, the bureau employs cargo ships like Chong Chon Gang that are
\ntens of thousands of tons in size, or \u2018trade vessels\u2019 and \u2018reefer ships\u2019 such
\nas Nam San 1, 2, Kum Gang San, Mu Bong 1, 2, Po Thong Gang 11, 12, Seung Ri,
\nand Myong Song, which are 800 to 1,000 tons. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nGang and Mu Bong a monopoly on king crabs, shrimp, and conch fishing.
\nTherefore, they\u2019re able to secure some 1,000 tons annually in marine goods and
\nsell them to individual companies in Japan to buy the necessary reconnaissance
\nequipment. <\/p>\n
\ntrue origins and engage in trade as regular ships. Especially when they are
\nsubject to international sanctions and unable to make port entry, they use
\ntactful tricks such as remaining in international waters, where Chongryon (General
\nAssociation of Korean Residents in Japan, an entity holding strong ties with
\nPyongyang) companies will come to their aid in trade. <\/span> <\/p>\n
\n\u2018Birobong Trading Company\u2019 to earn foreign currency, and under this are
\nneedlework and garment factories, as well as marine stations for fishing. Also,
\nit uses the Unit 96 equipment supply station in Pyongyang\u2019s Sonkyo District to
\nbuy reconnaissance supplies from overseas and then transfer them to subordinate
\nmilitary installations who will then distribute the equipment to each
\nassociated military corps.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nhigh-speed engines (M400), German compact high-speed engines, Japanese radar
\ndetectors (Furuno), high-speed engines, ten-man inflatable rafts, and diving
\nequipment to marine infiltration troops that are stationed on the coast.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nthere are hundreds of military officers dispatched across various countries.
\nThese officers are all graduates of a foreign-language academy (Ma Tong Hui
\nacademy) run by the bureau. After 6 years of studying, students are sent
\noverseas for a year, where they master foreign languages (English, Chinese,
\nJapanese, Arabic) and then are deployed to an information communications
\n(cyber) unit under the bureau.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ntheir home country after having studied overseas to work as \u2018cyber-hackers\u2019,
\nbreaking into computer networks and mobile phones under orders from the North
\nKorea\u2019s leadership.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nmouthpiece, Rodong Sinmun, vehemently denied one such allegation brought forward last week by South
\nKorea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), which claimed that that North Korea
\nsuccessfully hacked into the mobile phones of 40 national security officials.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nKorea to hack into email accounts of South Korean railway workers in an attempt
\nto attack the transport system’s control system.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"