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Korea increases number of guard posts in Hyesan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has added at least five new guard posts in Hyesan as part of broader efforts to crackdown on smuggling and the &#8220;leakage&#8221; of information over the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInformation tends to circulate through smuggling, so stamping this out is the main goal [of the authorities],\u201d a source in Ryanggang Province told Daily NK on July 7.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, rising hostility toward South Korea over defector-activists sending leaflets over the inter-Korean border last month has led to tighter control over the Sino-North Korean border. The five new guard posts in Hyesan have brought the city\u2019s total number of guard posts to 28.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source also said that the border guard has been in a high state of alert since June 20, which means they are prohibited from taking leave and officers are making the rounds at each guard post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite this atmosphere of increased tension, a border guard in Hyesan was caught and punished in late June for conspiring with a smuggler to transfer two boxes (600 packs) of cigarettes to a Chinese national.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The guard was indicted under military law and sentenced to three years at a forced labor camp. His immediate superiors were also held responsible and discharged from the military.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investigators on the case discovered, moreover, that soldiers at another border guard post were involved in a gold smuggling operation. A smuggler wanting to move 10 kilograms of gold into China reportedly bribed the guards to get him across the border safely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The soldiers are currently all being investigated and the gold trader was arrested and had his earnings confiscated, the source said, further speculating that they all faced serious punishment under military law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-uses-military-law-punish-smuggling-border\/\">recent order<\/a> said that anyone found guilty of smuggling will be tried under military law,\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cSome people think, however, that the threat of punishment is not likely to deter those determined to smuggle.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK has published multiple reports this past month about how the authorities are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-focuses-ending-ship-based-smuggling-border\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cracking down <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-install-new-surveillance-cameras-sino-nk-border\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">smuggling activities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of State Security officials were also recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-crack-down-even-more-on-illegal-activities-border-region\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ordered <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to hand out \u201cheavy punishments\u201d to anyone caught committing illegal acts near the border, including smuggling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EA%B5%AD%EA%B2%BD%EA%B2%BD%EB%B9%84-%EC%B4%88%EC%86%8C-%EC%A6%9D%EA%B0%95%ED%95%B4-%EA%B0%90%EC%8B%9C-%EA%B0%95%ED%99%94%EB%B0%80%EC%88%98-%EB%8B%A8%EC%86%8D%EC%9C%BC%EB%A1%9C-%EB%B6%84\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has added at least five new guard posts in Hyesan as part of broader efforts to crackdown on smuggling and the &#8220;leakage&#8221; of information over the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cInformation tends to circulate through smuggling, so stamping this out is the main goal [of the authorities],\u201d a source in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":45580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[222,717],"class_list":["post-45579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border","tag-border","tag-smuggling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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