{"id":51397,"date":"2022-04-22T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51397"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:08:13","slug":"north-korea-security-agency-hands-down-measure-response-us-rok-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-security-agency-hands-down-measure-response-us-rok-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s security agency hands down measure in response to US-ROK military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security has recently issued to its regional branches emergency orders that correspond to a quasi-state of war. The orders suggest a measure aimed at responding to the US-ROK Combined Command Post Training for nine days that began on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province on Wednesday, the provincial branch of the Ministry of State Security received an emergency order from the ministry&#8217;s national headquarters on Sunday. The order called on ministry personnel to adopt a combat posture corresponding to a quasi-state of war. Ministry of State Security offices in the province have been responding with 10 days of 24-hour, day and night drills assuming a quasi-state of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the source said provincial bodies of the Ministry of State Security have tightened surveillance of targets in accordance with directives from above, as well as of people living near military bases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to materials obtained by Daily NK, the details of the ministry\u2019s order are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find and arrest all enemy spies and impure and hostile elements that could discover our (North Korea&#8217;s) secrets and disrupt rear area operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have local strategic military bases and other units in particular areas of responsibility use all informants to select people who frequent the area and ferret out people collaborating with enemy spies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have informants and mass surveillance networks keep an eye on anything unusual in regions, points or places where spies could enter, escape or parachute in.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Establish security measures to suppress all behavior that could hinder military activities by controlling all secret paths across the border and executing security activities in the surrounding areas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the US-South Korean exercise underway, the Ministry of State Security is apparently focusing even more on its original mission of watching over ideologically suspicious individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the Ministry of State Security usually holds corresponding drills three to seven days before military exercises in South Korea. He said he believed the current drill order was issued along the same lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source added that the order has a \u201chidden intention\u201d; namely, faced with a grave internal situation in the face of food shortages, the authorities are using the tense atmosphere generated externally to strongly clamp down on their own people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, local ministry officials are reportedly complaining about having to spend 10 days in their offices or bunkers, unable to return home at all.<\/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\/20220421-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security has recently issued to its regional branches emergency orders that correspond to a quasi-state of war. 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