{"id":45880,"date":"2020-08-03T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45880"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:21:31","slug":"kaesong-civil-defense-forces-state-emergency-mobilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kaesong-civil-defense-forces-state-emergency-mobilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaesong&#8217;s civil defense forces in a state of &#8220;emergency mobilization&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After North Korea declared a state of emergency in Kaesong Special City, the city near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) where a North Korean defector recently returned to the country, local civil defense forces entered a state of \u201cemergency mobilization,\u201d Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe government declared a state of emergency mobilization for civil defense units within Kaesong, including the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, because of an incident involving a defector crossing over the border,\u201d a source in Kaesong told Daily NK on July 30. \u201cThey are undergoing training at a level on par with times of war.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the Civil Defense Department of the Kaesong Party Committee relayed an order at midnight of July 26 to all civil defense forces in Kaesong, including paramilitary training units and the Worker-Peasant Red Guards affiliated with various organizations and businesses. Units were instructed to equip themselves with emergency food supplies for 15 days &#8211; along with necessities, camouflage nets and rifles &#8211; and then gather for an emergency meeting to inspect their levels of readiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After calling the civil defense forces together and inspecting the necessities the units had collected, the authorities sent them on an eight kilometer night march while ordering a full search of the mountains near Kaesong, claiming that the area had been infiltrated by an \u201cimpure element.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kaesong Party Committee ordered that the training should be repeated for two weeks and noted that staff from the central government\u2019s Civil Defense Department would be brought in to oversee the training and conduct a \u201cfull inspection.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs reported in the Rodong Sinmun, the government has made it clear that this training is connected to the incident with the defector,\u201d the source told Daily NK. \u201cThis is being used to stir up negative sentiment against defectors among the people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STRUGGLING TO COLLECT FOOD\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaesong residents are reportedly struggling to come up with 15 days worth of food to carry out the order, especially households with family members in the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and other civil defense forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many households are living day-to-day due to the COVID-19 pandemic and face difficulties conducting \u201cbusiness\u201d (at local markets) when the country is in \u201cwar posture.\u201d It is a huge burden for many people to collect enough food for 15 days, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of State Security (MSS) has also been spreading propaganda to North Koreans since the defector incident. One leaflet has reportedly said: \u201cWe must maintain revolutionary vigilance in all places and at all times, and keep the motherland safe by establishing a thorough system where any infiltration by enemies is promptly discovered and reported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 26, Rodong Sinmun and other North Korean state-run media reported that a man suspected of having COVID-19 illegally crossed the Military Demarcation Line and returned to North Korea after defecting to South Korea three years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the reports, Kim declared a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d in Kaesong at an emergency meeting on July 26 while also implementing a \u201cmaximum emergency system\u201d and issuing a \u201ctop-class alert.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK reported last week that the returnee had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-runaway-turned-himself-in-kaesong-authorities-source-says\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">turned himself in<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Kaesong authorities and is currently being interrogated in an isolated room at the Kaesong MSS compound. 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