{"id":54278,"date":"2023-03-10T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54278"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T04:48:55","slug":"several-state-security-agency-agents-busted-for-accessing-internet-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/several-state-security-agency-agents-busted-for-accessing-internet-without-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Several state security agency agents busted for accessing Internet without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several security agents affiliated with the Ministry of State Security\u2019s Bureau 10 regularly connected to the Internet without permission, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agents were busted as a result of a Ministry of State Security internal inspection conducted during the ministry\u2019s first quarter review, a Daily NK reporting partner in North Korea said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bureau 10 carries out surveillance and oversight of all internal and external electronic communications, and the incident is leading to heavier crackdowns within the ministry, the reporting partner said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Bureau 10\u2019s internal regulations, agents must first fill out a temporary installation and viewing request and receive permission from their manager in charge before they can connect to the Internet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the agents busted during the latest inspection were breaking the regulations by taking advantage of their job and their easy access to the Internet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the individuals involved were young mid-ranked and high-ranked security agents who arrived at Bureau 10 late last year after graduating from Ryongsan National Security University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They had been handling the development of computer programs for the country\u2019s domestic firewall, as well as managing remote access, bugging and security systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the reporting partner, the ministry investigated the individuals&#8217; unauthorized Internet access and what they searched for and their leaks of outside information before passing on a general report of their findings to Bureau 10\u2019s department heads. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One security agent ran frequent searches for \u201cKim Jong Un.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside the ministry, agents say this act alone \u2014 committed by a \u201csecurity warrior tasked with defending the Greatest Dignity [Kim Jong Un] with his life\u201d \u2014 could get him shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner said it was a fellow agent in the same department who ratted the individuals out. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBureau 10 departments are given access to the Internet, which had allowed agents to turn off their search word recording devices and search the web as much as they like without issue. But after a new bureau chief took over, even these previously routine issues have turned into major incidents,\u201d he said, relaying an opinion held by those within the ministry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The incident has caused alarm within the leadership of the Ministry of State Security, which has moved swiftly to deal with wayward agents.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner said that the ministry condemned electronic surveillance agents who abused their Internet access privileges, saying such agents \u201cwere not qualified to be security warriors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He further noted that all the agents implicated in the recent inspection will be dishonorably discharged from service at the ministry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of State Security informed Bureau 10\u2019s electronic surveillance bases in regions along the China-North Korea border of the incident in detail, urging them to prevent similar cases from occurring, the reporting partner added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230308-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several security agents affiliated with the Ministry of State Security\u2019s Bureau 10 regularly connected to the Internet without permission, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 The agents were busted as a result of a Ministry of State Security internal inspection conducted during the ministry\u2019s first quarter review, a Daily NK reporting partner in North Korea said Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":50412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1656],"class_list":["post-54278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - 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