{"id":48035,"date":"2021-03-25T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48035"},"modified":"2021-03-23T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:07:05","slug":"north-korean-security-agency-turns-brokers-against-families-defectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-security-agency-turns-brokers-against-families-defectors\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean security agency turns brokers against families of defectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A remittance broker was recently found to have been cooperating with the Ministry of State Security (MSS) to report on the families of defectors, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a phone call with Daily NK on Monday, a source in North Hamgyong Province said that &#8220;the MSS arrested a person surnamed Choi in Hoeryong on Mar. 11,\u201d adding that &#8220;the person was suddenly arrested because the MSS found out he had received money from his daughter who has settled in South Korea.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North Korean authorities have been inciting against \u201cusers of Chinese cell phones concentrated in the Sino-North Korean border region\u201d who they say \u201cmust be ruthlessly struck down in the name of the revolution.\u201d The move appears aimed at preventing people from crossing over the border, conducting smuggling activities, or attempting to defect as part of broader disease control efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean officials have also been applying pressure on people either using or in possession of a Chinese cell phone to surrender these phones to the authorities. However, according to the source, \u201cbarely anyone has followed this order because no one trusts the authorities.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40876\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"North Korean resident on his mobile phone in a provincial region of the country\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-696x406.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-1068x623.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4-720x420.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/\ud734\ub300\uc804\ud654-\uc0ac\uc9c4.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this undated photograph, a North Korean man is seen talking on a phone in an area outside of Pyongyang. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, because the MSS needs to produce results, the security agency&#8217;s agents have started \u201cwooing the brokers and arresting the families of the defectors [who send money].\u201d He further noted that \u201cMSS officials have told the brokers they will not ask questions about their criminal use of Chinese cell phones.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK understands that Choi, who would have been unaware of the broker\u2019s collusion with the MSS, was arrested by security officials who were waiting for him to leave the broker\u2019s house after he had talked to his daughter in South Korea on the phone and received the money.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that \u201cthe MSS confiscated the cash received by Choi, which amounted to RMB 8,000 [approx. USD 1,230], and he is currently imprisoned and undergoing investigation at the local MSS branch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe MSS have transformed money changers into [regime] collaborators and sent them to re-education [camps],\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cIt will be difficult for Choi to avoid harsh punishment since the MSS has discovered that his daughter is in South Korea.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, according to the source, local residents aware of the story have started talking about it amongst themselves, saying that \u201cit is becoming a scary world where people are turning against each other after threats and blackmail from the MSS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Vilde Olaussen<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%e5%8c%97-10%eb%8c%80-%ea%b5%b0%ec%9d%b8-%ea%b5%b6%ec%a3%bc%eb%a6%bc%ec%97%90-%eb%ac%b4%ec%9e%a5%ed%95%9c%ec%b1%84-%ed%83%88%eb%b6%81-%e8%bb%8d-%ec%8b%9d%eb%9f%89%eb%ac%b8%ec%a0%9c-%ec%8b%ac\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remittance broker was recently found to have been cooperating with the Ministry of State Security (MSS) to report on the families of defectors, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 In a phone call with Daily NK on Monday, a source in North Hamgyong Province said that &#8220;the MSS arrested a person surnamed Choi in Hoeryong on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":42799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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