{"id":52517,"date":"2022-08-08T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52517"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:16:25","slug":"ministry-state-security-fishing-boats-secret-operation-seized-military-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/ministry-state-security-fishing-boats-secret-operation-seized-military-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of State Security fishing boats on secret operation seized by military vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two fishing boats attached to the North Pyongan Province branch of the Ministry of State Security were recently seized by North Korean military patrol boats after they illegally left port in violation of COVID-19 quarantine regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The matter has been handed to the State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command, which is investigating the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in North Pyongan Province last Thursday, two fishing boats attached to the North Pyongan Province branch of the Ministry of State Security illegally departed port in the early morning hours of July 26, reportedly with the permission of cadres connected to the local Ministry of State Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two boats had been assembled near Hadan-ri, Sinuiju, and Cholsan County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial branch of the Ministry of State Security has long secretly permitted its fishing boats to illegally set sail around holiday time to secure seafood for holiday provisions. This time, the ministry permitted the two boats to secretly leave harbor ahead of the July 27 \u201cVictory Day\u201d holiday marking the armistice that ended the Korean War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The captains of the vessels \u2014 believing they could not take on many crew members because they needed to operate under the radar \u2014 took their boats to sea crewed by high school-aged relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the two vessels were soon discovered by coastal patrol boats of the North Korean navy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Believing the vessels to be Chinese fishing boats using the cover of darkness to illegally operate in North Korean waters, the patrol boats issued warnings by loudspeaker and made their approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When they discovered the boats were in fact North Korean, the patrol boats immediately seized and detained them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The high school students who were aboard were sent home, while the captains and remaining crew were handed over to the military\u2019s security department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Circumventing the provincial quarantine authorities, the military\u2019s security department used its own internal reporting network to directly notify to the State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command in Pyongyang that the boats had illegally left port and were carrying minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the infraction taking place amid the implementation of North Korea&#8217;s \u201cmaximum emergency epidemic prevention system\u201d &#8211; which calls for bolstered patrols along the DMZ and national borders and in the nation\u2019s seas and skies &#8211; the authorities took the matter quite seriously for allegedly \u201csowing chaos in quarantine efforts and poor discipline in maritime supervision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command immediately headed to the scene to begin efforts to investigate everyone involved in the incident, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command reportedly presented Yellow Sea maritime supervision agencies with plans to strongly punish those who turned a blnd eye to illegal activity of this sort during the \u201cspring\u201d fishing season of April to July. It also called for an increase in the number of signatures needed to leave port for the sea from 13 to 17 for the \u201cautumn\u201d fishing season of August to October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities also issued a special warning that boats caught with students onboard as seasonal labor for the autumn fishing season would be confiscated. Anyone caught in such a scheme would be barred from entering the sea for a year or \u2014 in serious cases \u2014 subjected to criminal punishments, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that the State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command also believes the North Pyongan Province branch of the Ministry of State Security to be \u201ca unit sowing chaos in quarantine efforts and poor discipline in maritime supervision.&#8221; As a result, it has decided to report its compiled investigation findings directly to the organizational department of the Ministry of State Security\u2019s headquarters in Pyongyang.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many North Koreans now worry that the matter will encourage the authorities to intensify their oversight of maritime activities, the source claimed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cPeople working in the fisheries sector are anxious that once Pyongyang ascertains what happened here, maritime oversight regulations will be intensified in not only the Yellow Sea, but in all the nation\u2019s seas,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/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\/20220804-4\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two fishing boats attached to the North Pyongan Province branch of the Ministry of State Security were recently seized by North Korean military patrol boats after they illegally left port in violation of COVID-19 quarantine regulations. 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