{"id":49410,"date":"2021-09-01T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49410"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:44:48","slug":"ministry-state-security-arrests-mobile-phone-user-hoeryong-exiling-family-confiscating-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/ministry-state-security-arrests-mobile-phone-user-hoeryong-exiling-family-confiscating-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of State Security arrests phone user in Hoeryong, exiling her family and confiscating her house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have apparently taken their sweeping operation against the use of Chinese-made mobile phones to the next level, instituting tough measures against offenders by confiscating their homes and exiling their families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that the Ministry of State Security put a woman in her 20s\u2014identified by her family name of Han\u2014under emergency arrest in Hoeryong in early July. \u201cIn the end, Han was recently sent to a political prison camp on charges of espionage, her family was exiled to a rural area and their house was confiscated,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given that North Korean security authorities have generally punished only the offender in illegal Chinese-made mobile phone cases, the confiscation of Han\u2019s home and the exiling of her family are considered quite extraordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, Han handed over money to the family of a North Korean defector in early July. Basically, this means she was a \u201cremittance broker,\u201d transferring the funds through Chinese-made mobile phones. On her way home, however, she was reportedly arrested by the Ministry of Social Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities charged Han with having \u201ctransferred money\u201d since February of 2018 and, in the process, conducting espionage by leaking dozens of pieces of domestic information in return for money. The source said Han was further charged with being a \u201cmiddleman\u201d connecting the border region with the country\u2019s interior and delivering \u201coperational expenses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the authorities searched her home and found RMB 60,000 and USD 27,000. The source said investigators believed Han spied in return for \u201cdirty money\u201d from South Korean intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42496\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/2019-\ubd81\ub18d\ucd0c_3-\uc0b4\ub9bc\uc9d1-\uc21c\ucc9c-\uc7a5\ub9c8\ub2f9-\uc7a5\uc0ac\uafbc-\uc190\uc804\ud654-\ud734\ub300\ud3f0-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"Merchant cell phone\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/2019-\ubd81\ub18d\ucd0c_3-\uc0b4\ub9bc\uc9d1-\uc21c\ucc9c-\uc7a5\ub9c8\ub2f9-\uc7a5\uc0ac\uafbc-\uc190\uc804\ud654-\ud734\ub300\ud3f0-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/2019-\ubd81\ub18d\ucd0c_3-\uc0b4\ub9bc\uc9d1-\uc21c\ucc9c-\uc7a5\ub9c8\ub2f9-\uc7a5\uc0ac\uafbc-\uc190\uc804\ud654-\ud734\ub300\ud3f0-696x464-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/2019-\ubd81\ub18d\ucd0c_3-\uc0b4\ub9bc\uc9d1-\uc21c\ucc9c-\uc7a5\ub9c8\ub2f9-\uc7a5\uc0ac\uafbc-\uc190\uc804\ud654-\ud734\ub300\ud3f0-696x464-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A North Korean merchant using a cell phone at a local market. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relatedly, the source said the only option open to people in border regions to make money is \u201cto connect people who went to South Korea with their families [in North Korea] and convey news in the process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrankly, it only depends on whether the Ministry of State Security decides to press charges,\u201d he said, adding,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you enter a Ministry of State Security interrogation room, the torture and violence is so bad you\u2019ll confess even to things you didn\u2019t do. How could a young woman in her 20s withstand the torture of the Ministry of State Security? It\u2019s likely they got her to write a confession through violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the ground, locals note that while the sweeping operation to \u201cmop up\u201d illegal mobile phone use has been ongoing, ostensibly part of quarantine efforts against COVID-19, the authorities are now instituting tougher punishments to generate a climate of fear as efforts to eradicate the problem fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the authorities reportedly announced in May that they planned to institute a \u201cguilt by association system\u201d by confiscating the homes of offenders and exiling their families. It is likely Han, too, was caught up in this operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the past, you could resolve this problem with connections or money, but recently, the authorities are responding to users of Chinese-made mobile phones in extraordinary fashion,\u201d said the source. \u201cNow, locals are refraining as much as possible from contacting the outside world.\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%b6%81%ed%95%9c-%e4%b8%ad%ec%86%90%ec%a0%84%ed%99%94%ec%97%90-%ec%97%b0%ec%a2%8c%ec%a0%9c-%ec%a0%81%ec%9a%a9-%ec%a3%bc%ed%83%9d-%eb%aa%b0%ec%88%98%ec%97%90-%ea%b0%80%ec%a1%b1\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities have apparently taken their sweeping operation against the use of Chinese-made mobile phones to the next level, instituting tough measures against offenders by confiscating their homes and exiling their families.\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that the Ministry of State Security put a woman in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":42496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3243],"class_list":["post-49410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime-corruption"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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