{"id":49650,"date":"2021-10-13T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49650"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:38:14","slug":"undercover-agents-sent-to-yanggang-province-to-clamp-down-on-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/undercover-agents-sent-to-yanggang-province-to-clamp-down-on-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover agents sent to Yanggang Province to clamp down on corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of State Security agents have been sent undercover to the Sino-North Korean border region of Yanggang Province posing as \u201cparty representatives\u201d to look for corruption among local cadres and &#8220;observe and guide&#8221; the ideological tendencies of local residents, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province on Monday, some \u201cparty representatives\u201d arrived in the province\u2019s border areas from the capital Pyongyang in mid-July. It was recently learned, however, that the individuals are Ministry of State Security agents ranked lieutenant-colonel and above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What bears noting is when they arrived \u2014 mid-July. This has sparked speculation that their arrival was a follow-up measure to comments made by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an Enlarged Meeting of the Second Political Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee criticizing \u201cneglect by cadres in charge\u201d and \u201ca grave incident\u201d regarding COVID-19 quarantine efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43402\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"hyesan leaker bribe elderly smuggling gold yanggang projects phones border\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-1068x641.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803-700x420.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/KakaoTalk_20180820_183327803.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Hyesan, Yanggang Province, in August 2018. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, they dispersed on the first day of their arrival in Yanggang Province, with individual agents taking up posts at district offices in provincial areas such as Hyesan, Samjiyon and Kimjongsuk County. The source said the agents are using the government facilities as their offices, sending direct reports to the Central Committee about the daily behavior of local cadres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This apparently reflects the authorities\u2019 belief that eliminating laxity on the part of cadres at the border is of utmost importance in North Korea\u2019s emergency quarantine efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agents are also reportedly policing local residents as well. Particularly interesting is that the agents are posing as \u201cparty representatives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relatedly, Yanggang Province\u2019s ruling party committee and people\u2019s committee recently issued an order to local residents instructing them to \u201clive well\u201d so that the \u201cparty representatives\u201d sent from Pyongyang \u201ccannot raise issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said by presenting the agents as \u201cwarmer,\u201d friendlier officials sent by the party rather than from the \u201cnotorious\u201d Ministry of State Security, authorities intend to \u201cput local residents at ease to get an accurate sense of what they are thinking and doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the \u201cparty representatives\u201d can demand control over and cooperation from all security agents and police officers in charge. \u201cThey are generating a sense of tension by watching the ideological tendencies and movements of residents of the border region in the name of emergency quarantine efforts amid the protracted closure of the border,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%eb%b6%81%ed%95%9c-%ea%b5%ad%ea%b0%80%eb%b3%b4%ec%9c%84%ec%84%b1-%ec%9a%94%ec%9b%90-%ec%96%91%ea%b0%95%eb%8f%84%ec%97%90-%eb%8b%b9-%eb%8c%80%ed%91%9c-%ec%8b%a0%eb%b6%84\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of State Security agents have been sent undercover to the Sino-North Korean border region of Yanggang Province posing as \u201cparty representatives\u201d to look for corruption among local cadres and &#8220;observe and guide&#8221; the ideological tendencies of local residents, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 According to a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province on Monday, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":43596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3243],"class_list":["post-49650","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Undercover agents sent to Yanggang Province to clamp down on corruption - 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\/undercover-agents-sent-to-yanggang-province-to-clamp-down-on-corruption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Undercover agents sent to Yanggang Province to clamp down on corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ministry of State Security agents have been sent undercover to the Sino-North Korean border region of Yanggang Province posing as \u201cparty representatives\u201d to look for corruption among local cadres and &#8220;observe and guide&#8221; 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