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Kim Jong Un during a site visit to Sunchon Chemical Complex. Image: Roodng Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Major factories in South Pyongan Province are either creating new \u201cDefense Security Battalions\u201d or beefing up existing battalions.<\/p>\n

Defense security battalions, officially referred to as People\u2019s Defense Security Battalions, are paramilitary units under the control of the Worker-Peasant Red Guard. These battalions are organized within each workplace and are in charge of security at local facilities and storage sites. Generally speaking, the battalions are located in large workplaces that are classified as \u201cspecial class,\u201d \u201cclass one\u201d or \u201cclass two.\u201d Smaller workplaces that are classified as \u201cclass three\u201d or \u201cclass four\u201d use their own employees for local security.<\/p>\n

Recently, however, larger workplaces have been increasing the number of defense security battalion members, and even smaller workplaces are creating their own battalions.<\/p>\n

\u201cMajor state-run companies, mines and provincial small to mid-sized companies in South Pyongan Province are creating their own defense security battalions,\u201d said a source located in the region on April 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefense security battalions located in factories are tasked with preventing unauthorized persons from entering the premises, night-time patrols, and managing the flow of supplies in and out of the factory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are increasingly trying to sell anything that makes money in the markets, even products fresh off the factory floor and other materials, because the country\u2019s economic difficulties have lowered their incomes,\u201d the source continued, adding that “companies are trying to crack down on these activities by beefing up their own security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employees at North Korean factories have long siphoned off materials to sell at the markets, but efforts by companies to beef up their security forces suggests stronger measures are being taken to thwart it.<\/p>\n

In his 2019 New Year\u2019s Address, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un emphasized that \u201cThey [the party\/government organs, and working people\u2019s organizations] should intensify the struggle to eradicate both serious and trivial instances of abuse of power, bureaucratism and corruption, which would wreak havoc on the harmonious whole of the party and the masses and undermine the socialist system.\u201d The recent increase in the importance of defense security battalions suggests that it is part of broader efforts to crack down on corruption.<\/p>\n

The North Korean authorities are currently promoting the \u201cShock Campaign to Increase Production\u201d to meet the goals of the country\u2019s National Economic Development Five Year Strategy and commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK) in 2020. The heightened importance of defense security battalions may be connected with efforts to increase factory production by preventing the siphoning off of important products and materials.<\/p>\n

A separate source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK that defense security battalion members in factories are usually party members who served in the military or are former members of the Youth Alliance, meaning that they have relatively ideologically pure backgrounds. Battalion candidates must receive recommendations from a factory\u2019s head of security, local police, and a factory party director.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, elderly people were hired to work as simple gate guards, but now the battalions are being filled with young and responsible people who wear the colors of the Red Guards and even carry weapons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It is generally rare for security officials of any kind in North Korea to carry weapons. While exceptions are made for \u201cspecial security weeks\u201d (periods in which the authorities increase security throughout the country), the authorities only allow security forces to carry around guns made of wood due to fears of a shooting incident. Defectors say that it is rare for security officials to carry around real weapons.<\/p>\n

North Koreans are reportedly happy to see the companies creating new defense security battalions or reinforcing existing ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cMembers of defense security battalions have priority over other workers for food rations,\u201d an additional source in South Pyongan Province said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t receive extra money or anything else, but young workers all want to become battalion members because the work isn\u2019t physically difficult and they get to wear armbands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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