{"id":42177,"date":"2019-09-19T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=42177"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:49:48","slug":"county-mss-director-forcibly-retired-bribery-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/county-mss-director-forcibly-retired-bribery-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"County MSS director forcibly retired after accepting bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42178\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"MSS Office\" width=\"696\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-696x358.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-1068x550.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1-816x420.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/\ubcf4\uc704\ubd80-1024x683-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Koreans waiting to meet with family members in front of a Ministry of State Security (MSS) office in the Sino-North Korean border region. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A county MSS director was forcibly retired after allegedly accepting a large bribe from a man named Chae, who was arrested in June of this year on charges of working with South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Agency (NIS), Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChae had been arrested for spying and sent to the provincial MSS office in June. He later admitted during an interrogation of giving a large bribe to the director of the MSS office in Kimjongsuk (Sinpa) County,\u201d a source familiar with the case told Daily NK on Tuesday. \u201cThe director was honorably discharged from his position in mid-August.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, investigators knew that the political officer at the county MSS office had been in Chae\u2019s pocket, but were unaware that the political officer\u2019s superior, the office\u2019s director, had also received a bribe from Chae. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChae hadn&#8217;t been arrested sooner because of the director&#8217;s influence,\u201d the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MSS officials knew that if news spread that the MSS office&#8217;s director had protected someone accused of working the NIS, the ministry&#8217;s prestige would suffer. MSS officials opted to quietly remove the director from his position.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Their decision] makes sense because the director is 62 years old this year. Also MSS officials figured that it would be difficult for the ministry to manage discontent among the people if it became known that such a high-level official had accepted a bribe,&#8221; another Ryanggang Province-based source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly-appointed MSS director in the county is the former second vice-director of the Ryanggang Province MSS office and is only in his late 40s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe new director ordered the elimination of any giving or receiving of bribes by MSS officials as soon as he was appointed,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe also warned that his office would not forgive anyone for committing such crimes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The incident has nonetheless led to a strengthening of ideological education of MSS officials, intelligence officers and counter-surveillance agents in Ryanggang Province, along with a \u201creorganization\u201d of undercover agents in the area. These latest moves appear aimed at preventing any leaks of internal information from the country and intensifying intelligence operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The province\u2019s MSS office has also strengthened control over residents in the region, sources told Daily NK. \u201cMSS officials have been ordered to ramp up their activities aimed at identifying and arresting traders acting illegally, particularly users of Chinese-made cell phones,\u201d the source said. \u201cNorth Koreans in the province will have a tougher time communicating with the outside world for some time to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/ryanggang-province-deemed-to-have-the-most-illegal-border-crossers\/\">previously reported<\/a> that Ryanggang Province was identified by North Korean officials as having the most &#8220;illegal border-crossers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A county MSS director was forcibly retired after allegedly accepting a large bribe from a man named Chae, who was arrested in June of this year on charges of working with South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Agency (NIS), Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cChae had been arrested for spying and sent to the provincial MSS office in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":42178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[222,273],"class_list":["post-42177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-border","tag-corruption"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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