{"id":51833,"date":"2022-06-01T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=51833"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:01:31","slug":"north-korea-orders-unified-command-82-intensify-crackdowns-anti-socialist-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-orders-unified-command-82-intensify-crackdowns-anti-socialist-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea orders Unified Command 82 to intensify crackdowns on anti-socialist behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s central government has once again ordered \u201cUnified Command 82\u201d to intensify its crackdown on so-called \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist behavior,\u201d including the watching of South Korean dramas and films.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Monday, the central government issued an order to Unified Command 82 on May 20 to intensify their controls so that the \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist phenomenon\u201d of people watching \u201cimpure\u201d videos such as South Korean films \u201cdoes not occur during the lockdown period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting on May 21, the Unified Command 82 branch in Hoeryong formed teams to go around day and time in their jurisdictions and carry out random house searches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Unified Command 82 inspections have once again intensified after cooling off for a while,\u201d said the source. \u201cThe unified command uses their prerogative to carry out surprise inspections, entering homes without knocking to inspect drawers for USBs or SD cards, and inspect computers and recording devices, as well as checking if TV channels are fixed where they should be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the country\u2019s economic difficulties and food shortages now running up against COVID-19, there are concerns among the authorities that people could become ideologically disaffected. The authorities are apparently working even harder to bolster their controls and ensure that as times grow more difficult, \u201cillusions\u201d about the outside world do not take root among North Koreans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid all this, a resident of Hoeryong\u2019s Songnam-dong district got into a loud altercation with members of Unified Command 82 on May 23. This was because members of the unified command suddenly entered his home at dinner time, inspecting his TV and computer and turning over his place, the source in North Hamgyong Province said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same thing reportedly happened in Yanggang Province, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a source in that province, Unified Command 82 personnel have been very busy in Hyesan. Believing that more locals are watching impure videos, including South Korean films, during the lockdown period, agents are disguising themselves as emergency quarantine officers to carry out surprise inspections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are carrying out inspections with greater gusto, barging into homes, searching everywhere and examining mobile DVD players, computers and other electronic devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said Unified Command 82 personnel are now launching sneak raids \u201clike alley cats,\u201d adding that, \u201cPeople are like, \u2018We can\u2019t go out due to the lockdowns, so what are we going to do at home?\u2019 and &#8216;Won\u2019t everyone who wants to watch the films watch them anyway [despite the surprise raids]?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, the government is using different ways to stop people from watching &#8220;impure videos&#8221; like films from South Korea, but people are \u201cfinding more and more ways to watch them.\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\/20220530-5\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s central government has once again ordered \u201cUnified Command 82\u201d to intensify its crackdown on so-called \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist behavior,\u201d including the watching of South Korean dramas and films.\u00a0 According to a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province on Monday, the central government issued an order to Unified Command 82 on May 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":39678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-51833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-ryanggang-province"],"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>N. 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