{"id":49123,"date":"2021-07-26T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49123"},"modified":"2021-07-25T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T08:11:30","slug":"north-hamgyong-province-organizes-secret-disciplinary-units-crack-down-anti-socialist-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-hamgyong-province-organizes-secret-disciplinary-units-crack-down-anti-socialist-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Hamgyong Province organizes &#8220;secret disciplinary units&#8221; to crack down on anti-socialist behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have recently established &#8220;secret disciplinary units&#8221; led by Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea organizations and members in North Hamgyong Province to stamp out \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Thursday that the provincial branch of the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea ordered the secret establishment of \u201cautonomous internal disciplinary units\u201d composed largely of provincial Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea organizations and members. The order stemmed from a Central Committee directive on July 11 to \u201cthoroughly eradicate anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Koream authorities are frequently emphasizing measures to prevent youth \u201cdrenched in the culture of capitalist delinquency\u201d from becoming addicted to the \u201cenemy\u2019s ideology and culture, which focuses on nothing but money.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In lockstep, North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee ordered the secret establishment of \u201cinternal disciplinary units&#8221; while stating that Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea members \u201cshould take the lead in uncovering and reporting problematic behavior,\u201d the source added, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea organizations in the province have resolved to \u201cperform their role to the fullest in this effort,&#8221; according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47991\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/\ube44\uc0ac\ud68c\uc8fc\uc758_\uad6d\uacbd\uc5f0\uc120\uc815\uce58\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc790\ub8cc_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/\ube44\uc0ac\ud68c\uc8fc\uc758_\uad6d\uacbd\uc5f0\uc120\uc815\uce58\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc790\ub8cc_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/\ube44\uc0ac\ud68c\uc8fc\uc758_\uad6d\uacbd\uc5f0\uc120\uc815\uce58\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc790\ub8cc_1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/\ube44\uc0ac\ud68c\uc8fc\uc758_\uad6d\uacbd\uc5f0\uc120\uc815\uce58\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc790\ub8cc_1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/\ube44\uc0ac\ud68c\uc8fc\uc758_\uad6d\uacbd\uc5f0\uc120\uc815\uce58\uc0ac\uc5c5\uc790\ub8cc_1.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean lecture materials calling on people to &#8220;smash anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior&#8221; published in July 2019. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo that nobody knows which one is taking the lead in the effort, the Ministry of State Security and Social Security are secretly taking members of city, county, and district Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea organizations to get their fingerprints while tasking them with monitoring and reporting on locals\u2019 speech, behavior, living standards, and household income versus spending,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, provincial authorities have tasked Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea members involved in the disciplinary units with monitoring which clothes neighborhood youth wear, which hairstyles they imitate, which songs they hum, and which dances they enjoy. Disciplinary unit members are tasked with immediately reporting behaviors that \u201crun afoul of North Korean culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More importantly, the disciplinary units are supposed to pay attention to local mobile phone ringtones and conversations to &#8220;uncover acts of espionage.&#8221; Amid efforts to eliminate users of Chinese mobile phones, members of these units must &#8220;take the lead&#8221; and stay alert to identify these users in regions along the Sino-North Korean border, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Ministry of State Security and Ministry of Social Security stressed to members of the secret disciplinary teams that they must remain aware that they are fortresses and bastions protecting the socialist system and fulfill their role as mosquito nets against reactionary thought, calling on them to remember this and work to prevent early the ideological corruption of local residents,\u201d the source explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source added that the Ministry of State Security and Ministry of Social Security have emphasized the \u201csignificance\u201d of these secret disciplinary units. According to him, the ministries stated that \u201cwhile reporting systems through the heads of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [people\u2019s units] or informants also exist, [members of the new disciplinary units] must implement the Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s will to root out anti-socialist or non-socialist acts by relying not only the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inminban<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> heads and informants, but also by monitoring behavior and catching violations through multiple layers of surveillance.\u201d<\/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\/%eb%b0%98%ec%82%ac%ed%9a%8c%ec%a3%bc%ec%9d%98%c2%b7%eb%b9%84%ec%82%ac%ed%9a%8c%ec%a3%bc%ec%9d%98-%ea%b7%bc%ec%a0%88-%ec%9c%84%ed%95%9c-%ec%97%ac%eb%a7%b9-%eb%b9%84%eb%b0%80%ea%b7%9c%ec%b0%b0\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities have recently established &#8220;secret disciplinary units&#8221; led by Socialist Women&#8217;s Union of Korea organizations and members in North Hamgyong Province to stamp out \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist behavior.\u201d A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK last Thursday that the provincial branch of the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea ordered the secret establishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":49127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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