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Hamgyong Province conducts crackdown on illegal activity at print shops, photo studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North Hamgyong Province branch of the Non-Socialist and Anti-Socialist Unified Command (below: \u201cUnified Command\u201d) recently launched a province-wide crackdown on illegal activity at print shops and photo studios, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSince Mar. 23, the Unified Command has been carrying out a week-long, province-wide campaign to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inspect <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">print shops, photo studios, and anyone registered as owning a digital camera, as well as university libraries, computer rooms and college students\u2019 personal laptops,\u201d a reporting partner in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Mar. 29, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the reporting partner, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this marks the first such crackdown since the enactment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/daily-nk-obtains-full-text-pyongyang-cultural-language-protection-act\/\">Pyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act<\/a> in January of this year<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The Unified Command warned that the government has \u201cbeen patient in the past and given offenders chances to reflect and overcome [their <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">improper behavior]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but [going forward] those who fail to take the nation\u2019s laws seriously will be taught a harsh lesson about [the power] of the law.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Unified Command announced that it had launched this wave of inspections in response to people openly using print shops to stamp their wares with illegal <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trademarks <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and selling materials they had printed or copied without government permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo studios have also come under scrutiny. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo studios and individuals with cameras are permitted to take photos to celebrate special occasions like an infant\u2019s 100th day ceremony, weddings, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hwangap <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a person\u2019s 60th birthday) celebrations, and other birthday celebrations. However, pictures taken against backdrops of Hawaii or other foreign vacation locales, high-rise <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">skylines<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or South Korean cars are prohibited, and the authorities have announced they are cracking down on individuals taking these kinds of pictures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those caught in this round of non-socialist and anti-socialist inspections, the authorities are not only confiscating the equipment used in the illegal activities, but also all money and assets deemed to have been earned in the course of the alleged crimes, the reporting partner said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people have been arrested since the beginning of the raids and are being interrogated in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">detention center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s. [The Unified Command] suspended university classes and raided dormitories, taking away a lot of university students in the process.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reporting partner added: \u201cStudents said that the way the Unified Command was indiscriminately cracking down on them was akin to \u2018fiery-eyed, growling demons hunting for young people to eat\u2019 or \u2018Japanese policemen [in the Japanese colonial era] running wild to catch students protesting for independence.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by Rose Adams. 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\/20230329-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Hamgyong Province branch of the Non-Socialist and Anti-Socialist Unified Command (below: \u201cUnified Command\u201d) recently launched a province-wide crackdown on illegal activity at print shops and photo studios, Daily NK has learned. \u201cSince Mar. 23, the Unified Command has been carrying out a week-long, province-wide campaign to inspect print shops, photo studios, and anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":54570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360,67],"tags":[1656,1124],"class_list":["post-54569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-news","tag-dprk","tag-crackdowns"],"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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