{"id":49209,"date":"2021-08-05T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T02:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49209"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:24:19","slug":"north-korean-border-patrol-cadre-arrested-for-abetting-remittances-from-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-border-patrol-cadre-arrested-for-abetting-remittances-from-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean border patrol cadre arrested for abetting remittances from overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cadre with North Korea\u2019s border patrol in Yanggang Province was arrested in mid-July for abetting remittances from overseas, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Daily NK source in North Korea said Monday that the political guidance officer of the Yanggang Province-based Third Company, Second Battalion, 252nd Regiment, 25th Brigade of the border patrol \u2014 a man in his 30s identified by his family name of Pak \u2014 was arrested on July 13. He suffered the indignity of being stripped of his epaulets in front of the company, then shackled and taken away in a military truck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until February of this year, Pak reportedly used his soldiers to collect money from China and transfer it to remittance agents, or \u201cbrokers,\u201d despite the closure of the Sino-North Korean border due to COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44025\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"remittance ryanggang province border agreement equipment\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/DSC01362.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sentry post on the Sino-North Korean border in Sakju County, North Pyongan Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, he collected money sent by defectors in South Korea to their families in North Korea from accomplices in China on behalf of the brokers, all the while collecting a commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the authorities caught on to him during an intensive campaign against users of Chinese-made mobile phones. Pak\u2019s activities were uncovered after a local resident whose money he had transferred was arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, as North Korean authorities carried out their operation against Chinese mobile phones, they conducted additional investigations on associates and even launched operations to arrest suspected wrongdoers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWide-scale investigations of border patrol officers and soldiers connected with users of Chinese-made mobile phones are currently ongoing,\u201d said the source. \u201cThe political guidance officer was arrested as an extension of those investigations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[From the perspective of the authorities], the company\u2019s political guidance officer \u2014 who should carry out the government\u2019s policy to close the border due to COVID-19 better than anyone \u2014 broke quarantine regulations,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cThe punishment the political guidance officer faces will not be light.\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\/20210802-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cadre with North Korea\u2019s border patrol in Yanggang Province was arrested in mid-July for abetting remittances from overseas, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A Daily NK source in North Korea said Monday that the political guidance officer of the Yanggang Province-based Third Company, Second Battalion, 252nd Regiment, 25th Brigade of the border patrol \u2014 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":44025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49209","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 v28.1) - 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