{"id":51828,"date":"2022-05-31T11:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51828"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:33:00","slug":"north-korea-security-agency-spreads-rumors-suggesting-south-korean-connection-covid-19outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-security-agency-spreads-rumors-suggesting-south-korean-connection-covid-19outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea&#8217;s security agency spreads rumors suggesting a S. Korean connection with the COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security has recently started efforts directed at residents of the country\u2019s China-North Korea border region to blame the domestic spread of COVID-19 on South Korea and North Korean defectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Friday, rumors are circulating in Hoeryong that the recent spike in suspected COVID-19 cases was due to \u201cenemy supplies\u201d from South Korea contaminated with the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some North Koreans even claim the South Korean government has encouraged defectors to send balloons across the DMZ carrying items contaminated with COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, Ministry of State Security officials are the source of these rumors. Recently, ministry officials held study meetings for residents of Hoeryong claiming that South Korea and defectors were behind the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hoeryong\u2019s Songchon-dong neighborhood, a security guidance officer recently visited local families to conduct study meetings on emergency quarantine efforts. The officer said that the recent spread of the virus was because people who \u201cbetrayed the country and ran southward\u201d sent \u201cenemy supplies covered with the coronavirus\u201d into North Korea, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs if it weren\u2019t bad enough that they betrayed the country, they also unflinchingly engage in abominable behavior nobody in the world must ever engage in,\u201d the security officer said, according to the source.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The security officer also claimed that behind the \u201ctraitors who madly run around engaging in schemes against the DPRK is South Choson\u2019s [South Korea\u2019s] Agency for National Security Planning, which is trying to annihilate our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Agency for National Security Planning is the old name for South Korea\u2019s spy agency, which was renamed the National Intelligence Service in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause we suffered not even a single case of COVID-19 while the entire world was falling victim to COVID-19, South Choson\u2019s intelligence agency is telling people who ran away and betrayed our country to infiltrate the virus into the DPRK,\u201d the security official explained during the meeting, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this way, security officials appear to be spreading groundless rumors amid the country\u2019s COVID-19 crisis as part of efforts to keep everyone ideologically in line. However, their efforts seem to be having little effect on many North Korean people in the border region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven if Ministry of State Security personnel come to spread malicious propaganda about South Korea, people in the border area already know all there is to know,\u201d the source claimed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLocals say that people who went to South Korea have parents and siblings in their hometowns [in North Korea], so it\u2019s nonsense that they would send a malicious virus into our nation,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAgents of the Ministry of State Security have grown rich following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by taking the money sent by people\u2019s relatives in South Korea,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cSo people just frown at [the officials] who spread rumors saying the outbreak of COVID-19 is because of South Korea and people who went to South Korea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220527-5\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s Ministry of State Security has recently started efforts directed at residents of the country\u2019s China-North Korea border region to blame the domestic spread of COVID-19 on South Korea and North Korean defectors. 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