{"id":54678,"date":"2023-04-14T17:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54678"},"modified":"2023-04-14T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:09:24","slug":"north-korean-military-reinforces-discipline-signalmen-after-deadly-mishandling-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-military-reinforces-discipline-signalmen-after-deadly-mishandling-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean military reinforces discipline of signalmen after deadly mishandling of documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a signalman with North Korea\u2019s Ninth Corps in North Hamgyong Province died while riding on the back of a moving vehicle, the military is taking action to reinforce discipline and improve relations with the public, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA signalman in a brigade attached to the Ninth Corps in Rason was recently killed while transporting documents after being sucked under the tires of the vehicle he was riding. The documents being transported turned out to have problems of their own, leading to a campaign to improve discipline in the military,\u201d a reporting partner in the province told Daily NK on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the reporting partner, the signalman who died in the accident was a man in his early twenties from Wonsan, Kangwon Province. He had joined the military three years but had struggled to adjust because of bullying. A year ago, his parents had helped him transfer to a unit stationed in North Hamgyong Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The signalman had hopped onto a vehicle to transport documents when he suffered the fatal accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News of the accident was urgently transmitted to the signalman\u2019s unit, which collected the documents he had been transporting. But it turned out that the documents had not been filled out properly with name, date and duty officer signature, leading the incident to be treated more seriously because it involved not only loss of life but also mishandling of military documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As investigators sought to determine why the military documents had been mishandled, they began looking into the signalman\u2019s conduct prior to the accident. They were soon shocked to learn that the signalman had left the base and slept at a private residence the night before the accident, promising to return with documents that were issued in the early morning hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The unit, after concluding that the incident was the result of freewheeling behavior by signalmen who paid frequent visits to private homes, suggested to the corps that the signalmen\u2019s discipline needed to be reinforced. Given the connection to civilians, the unit also officially referred the matter to the party\u2019s military committee in North Hamgyong Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Ninth Corps said the civilians who put soldiers up in their homes bear heavy responsibility for the incident and asked the province\u2019s military committee to take steps to resolve the issue. In a hastily convened meeting, the military committee ordered that civilians be informed that they are not allowed to take in soldiers and be warned that any similar incidents will be handed over to the Ministry of State Security for prosecution on the charge of leaking secrets,\u201d the reporting partner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSubsequently, people\u2019s committees in North Hamgyong Province held meetings at local government offices. During the meetings, civilians were told that while it\u2019s laudable to care for and assist soldiers who are serving their country so diligently, they should never put soldiers up for the night since that could be a violation of military law.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Carruth. 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 and China. 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\/20230410-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a signalman with North Korea\u2019s Ninth Corps in North Hamgyong Province died while riding on the back of a moving vehicle, the military is taking action to reinforce discipline and improve relations with the public, Daily NK has learned. \u201cA signalman in a brigade attached to the Ninth Corps in Rason was recently killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":42324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,646],"tags":[691,1656],"class_list":["post-54678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-military","tag-military","tag-dprk"],"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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