{"id":45876,"date":"2020-08-03T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45876"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:21:55","slug":"north-korea-installs-new-fencing-sino-north-korean-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-installs-new-fencing-sino-north-korean-border\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea installs new fencing on Sino-North Korean border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK has obtained video footage showing North Korean soldiers putting up new fencing near Hyesan recently amid the country\u2019s efforts to strengthen control over the border to prevent the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlthough [the authorities] have taken strong measures to close the border due to the virus, smuggling and border crossing attempts continue,\u201d a source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK over the phone on July 29. \u201cThe installation of extra wire fencing to crack down on such behavior has been ongoing since the beginning of July.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea closed the Sino-North Korean border in January to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and authorities have been conducting stronger crackdowns on what they view as \u201cillegal behavior.\u201d Smuggling and other illegal activities still continue in the border region despite these efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities appear to have begun installing new metal fencing in areas with a lot of smuggling and \u201criver crossings.\u201d Daily NK\u2019s source pointed out, however, that the new fencing is woefully inadequate to effectively stamp out illegal behavior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe authorities have ordered the military to eliminate smuggling, but there are too many places where people can secretly receive illegal goods,\u201d the source told Daily NK, adding, \u201cThere is no way that installing wire fencing can completely stop smuggling or river [border] crossings.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Koreans living near the border with China cross the border and turn to smuggling as an important way to make a living, which means that the authorities will have a hard time eradicating these activities. The source also pointed out that the newly-installed fencing is really \u201cpoor in quality.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMost of the wire fencing in border regions is made from ordinary string wire looped together,\u201d the source said, noting, \u201cThere are no barbs [in the wires], so they are easy to lift by hand or cut with tools.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video obtained by Daily NK (below) showed that the newly-installed wire fencing was so thin that it literally \u201cswayed in the wind.\u201d The soldiers installing it also had no qualms about touching the wires, perhaps because of the lack of barbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barbed wire or concertina wire (coiled barbed wire) is usually used on fences that aim to prevent the movement of people or animals. Barbed wire contains sharp edges while concertina wire is made by bending barbed wire into a coiled shape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North Korean soldiers putting up the wire fence in the video appear to be using \u201cunsuitable\u201d materials &#8211; perhaps because of the lack of materials needed to build a strong barbed-wire fence. Daily NK\u2019s source suggested that the installation of the new wire fence may just be \u201cfor show\u201d and intended to simply \u201cfollow orders\u201d rather than actually prevent illegal activities from occurring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBefore COVID-19, North Korea used steel wire purchased from China for fencing, and some of it had barbs,\u201d the source told Daily NK. \u201cEver since trade has ground to a halt, they are now using thin steel wire threaded together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quality of the fencing is so poor that it will \u201csnap if you pull it with your hands,\u201d he pointed out, adding, \u201c[The military] appears to be doing the bare minimum to comply with orders from the Party.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have stressed that the border must be completely locked down ever since they announced that a defector suspected of being infected with COVID-19 crossed the inter-Korean border recently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the report from Daily NK&#8217;s source in the country suggests, however, there still appear to be \u201choles\u201d in the border. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%98%81%EC%83%81-%ED%98%9C%EC%82%B0%EC%84%9C-%EC%B2%A0%EC%A1%B0%EB%A7%9D-%EC%A6%9D%EC%84%A4-%ED%8F%AC%EC%B0%A9%EB%AC%BC%EC%83%90-%ED%8B%88-%EC%97%86%EB%8A%94-%EB%B4%89%EC%87%84\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily NK has obtained video footage showing North Korean soldiers putting up new fencing near Hyesan recently amid the country\u2019s efforts to strengthen control over the border to prevent the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0 \u201cAlthough [the authorities] have taken strong measures to close the border due to the virus, smuggling and border crossing attempts continue,\u201d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":45877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[222,717,844],"class_list":["post-45876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border","tag-border","tag-smuggling","tag-defections"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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