{"id":48768,"date":"2021-06-23T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48768"},"modified":"2021-06-22T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:00:01","slug":"north-korean-man-arrested-onsong-county-smuggling-north-korea-china-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-man-arrested-onsong-county-smuggling-north-korea-china-border\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean man arrested in Onsong County for smuggling along North Korea-China border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The head of the Kumgang Trading Company\u2019s Onsong County office was arrested in early June for engaging in smuggling activities along the North Korea-China border. The company is affiliated with the Ministry of Social Security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man has been accused of \u201cignoring state quarantine policies and engaging in smuggling at the border with cooperation from state agencies,\u201d a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK yesterday, on condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the man secretly received help from various state agencies to engage in smuggling at the border in Onsong County, even though North Korean authorities have announced that any smuggling along the border will be treated as \u201ctreasonous behavior.\u201d His suspected smuggling activities were reported to the authorities by locals in Onsong County.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the nighttime hours of Jun. 1, the man allegedly took four boats into the Onsong County stretch of the Tumen River to smuggle in medicine and 500 kilograms of rice from China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man gave the headquarters of the military unit guarding that stretch of the border a \u201ctrade transaction certificate\u201d with the official seals of the county branch of the Ministry of Social Security and the local prosecutor\u2019s office. Under the belief that the man\u2019s activities were state-approved &#8211; not an act of smuggling aimed at personal profit &#8211; the headquarters permitted the transaction at the border, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41161\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41161 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/DSC02011.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 10 days after the act of smuggling occurred, however, the head of a local <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(people\u2019s unit) and local government informants told agents with the counter-espionage department of the Ministry of State Security\u2019s Onsong County branch what really happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, locals had noticed the man bringing home and selling the goods he had smuggled into the country from China. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">head and informants found it particularly odd that traders were frequenting his home. They then told officials with the local branch of the Ministry of State Security what they had witnessed, which led the man\u2019s smuggling activities to come to light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the man\u2019s arrest by a team tasked with cracking down on \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist activities,\u201d he was sent to the provincial prosecutor\u2019s office where he will \u201clikely face a life sentence of correctional labor for the crimes of brazenly violating state quarantine policies and engaging in personal smuggling using the authority of state agencies,\u201d the source said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that judiciary officials in Onsong County have expressed doubt that the man will come out of his predicament alive. Violating coronavirus quarantine policies is serious enough, they say, but nowadays, all illegal activity at the border \u201cfaces punishment harsher than ever before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities will reportedly interrogate the officials from the county-level Ministry of Social Security and local prosecutor\u2019s office who allegedly helped the man. The source said that officials will also question the border patrol guards who allowed the man access to the river without thoroughly checking his credentials. <\/span><\/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\/20210621-1\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Kumgang Trading Company\u2019s Onsong County office was arrested in early June for engaging in smuggling activities along the North Korea-China border. The company is affiliated with the Ministry of Social Security.\u00a0 The man has been accused of \u201cignoring state quarantine policies and engaging in smuggling at the border with cooperation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":44025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>North Korean man arrested in Onsong County for smuggling along North Korea-China border - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-man-arrested-onsong-county-smuggling-north-korea-china-border\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Korean man arrested in Onsong County for smuggling along North Korea-China border\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The head of the Kumgang Trading Company\u2019s Onsong County office was arrested in early June for engaging in smuggling activities along the North Korea-China border. 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