{"id":42390,"date":"2019-10-07T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=42390"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:49:45","slug":"north-korea-security-service-intensifies-search-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-security-service-intensifies-search-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s security service intensifies search for &#8220;spies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has recently intensified lectures aimed at encouraging North Koreans to turn in spies following the arrest of an alleged spy in June, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">The<\/span> June<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/county-mss-director-forcibly-retired-bribery-scandal\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1155cc;\"> spy incident <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">involved a money broker who allegedly spied for South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service (NIS). Two local MSS officials, including the head of the local MSS office, were relieved from their duties after it was revealed they had accepted bribes from the broker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Daily NK sources now say that the incident has led to an increase in lectures aimed at encouraging North Koreans to report strange behavior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cThrough its lectures, the MSS has told people that there are spies here who leak internal information to South Chosun (South Korea),\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Thursday. \u201cMSS officials have emphasized multiple times that if we come across any \u2018anti-revolutionary elements\u2019 we are to report them immediately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Daily NK sources also added that a MSS lecturer spent an unprecedented three hours at a single factory lecturing about the guidelines. MSS lecturers tend to spend much less time at individual lecture sites, suggesting that the MSS is engaged in an operation to root out suspected information leakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">During the lectures, MSS officials have also made attendees copy down all the guidelines concerning information leaks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Daily NK sources say that the guidelines include warnings that there are \u201cspies among us\u201d and that these spies may be \u201ctrusted neighbors or friends.\u201d The guidelines demand that North Koreans \u201calways be alert\u201d and to examine their \u201csurroundings and remain suspicious\u201d toward everything. The guidelines further encourage people to \u201cimmediately report\u201d any strange behavior, even if the context of the behavior is unclear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">North Korea periodically punishes ordinary North Koreans and even government officials for leaking \u201cinternal information\u201d abroad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">For example, a government official in North Hamgyong Province was arrested last year on spying charges for accepting payment in exchange for photographs and videos of local markets. Anyone found filming and distributing footage from inside North Korea is considered a spy and faces at least five years in a forced labor camp or political prisoner camp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Immediately after the incident, the MSS held lectures for the local population focused on how to identify and report spies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Ultimately, North Koreans who have attended the lectures are being extra cautious and refraining from making international calls to South Korea or China, Daily NK sources reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 20.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cPeople are fearful after attending the MSS lectures,\u201d one Daily NK source confirmed. \u201cEven if you aren\u2019t guilty of espionage, there\u2019s a lot of anxiety because everyone is watching each other and you may get reported if you exhibit what can be called strange behavior.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@gmail.com.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has recently intensified lectures aimed at encouraging North Koreans to turn in spies following the arrest of an alleged spy in June, Daily NK has learned. 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