{"id":54851,"date":"2023-05-04T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54851"},"modified":"2024-02-05T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T00:16:42","slug":"north-korea-releases-video-criticizing-one-woman-illegal-religious-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-releases-video-criticizing-one-woman-illegal-religious-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea recirculates video criticizing one woman&#8217;s illegal religious activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Correction<\/strong>: A previous version of this translated article did not make clear that the video mentioned in this article was created several years ago. Voice of Martyrs Korea released a version of the video with English subtitles in June 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities recently circulated a \u2018\u201ccivic education\u201d video criticizing illegal religious activities committed by a woman in the country. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video, which is four and a half minutes long, also decried the woman\u2019s superstitious beliefs, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">previous defection<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and alleged espionage activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video was created in the past, but the Daily NK reporting partner who provided the video said that the video continues to be used to educate North Koreans. In short, the regime appears to be recirculating videos created in the past with a view to warn them about taking part in illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video opens with an explanation how the woman, upon graduating college and struggling to survive during the Arduous March period, fell into superstitious beliefs and sought out fortune-tellers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to try to improve her fortunes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The reference to the \u201cArduous March\u201d suggests that the woman\u2019s case detailed in the video is not a recent event but ra<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ther an incident from the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video details the woman\u2019s past and condemns her behavior point by point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the video, one fortune teller told the woman that if she headed to the northwest, she would meet a spirit that could help her. Later, the woman crossed the border into a neighboring country (China) to visit her uncle in the winter one year. However, the fortune teller\u2019s promise of a helpful spirit turned out to be a lie designed to convince the woman to \u201csecretly cross the border\u201d (defect) and the woman<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ended up wandering the streets in disgrace with no job and no place to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video appears designed to prevent defections by instilling fear through stories of the supposed hardships suffered by those who defect, as well as to enforce discipline among North Korean citizens by warning of the dangers of superstition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>WALKING INTO A &#8220;TRAP&#8221; PLACED BY SOUTH KOREA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video goes on to claim that, while in China, the woman happened to visit a church fabricated by South Korea\u2019s intelligence agency. At the church, she was allegedly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">indoctrinated in anti-DPRK beliefs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and began engaging in espionage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Korea&#8217;s intelligence agency allegedly tasked the woman with organizing an underground religious network, then she returned to North Korea and took advantage of the party\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">benevolent leniency <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for her crimes to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">turn herself into the authorities. After that, she began her espionage activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_54853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54853\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/20230426_mdh_video_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/20230426_mdh_video_2.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/20230426_mdh_video_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/20230426_mdh_video_2-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/20230426_mdh_video_2-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the video recently acquired by Daily NK. The caption at the bottom of the image says, &#8220;Material used in religious activities that serves as evidence [of the woman&#8217;s crimes].&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, the woman went around Hamhung, Chongjin, and other nearby areas to meet with people with various grievances, illnesses, or who had believed in religion or superstitions in the past. She then plied these people with money and goods to promote her religious doctrine. In the city of Sariwon alone,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the authorities claimed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the woman organized an underground religious network made up of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">several undesirable individuals<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this time, the woman designated Sundays as a holy day of rest and held secret religious meetings, even in the midst of peak farming season. According to the video, she was eventually caught after an astute citizen alerted the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video appears was distributed in order to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stigmatize <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">activities that the regime deems taboo, such as superstition, illegal border crossings, espionage and religion. At the same time, it lauds the generosity of the Workers\u2019 Party and encourages people to remain vigilant <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">against undesirable activities<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/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 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\/20230427-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correction: A previous version of this translated article did not make clear that the video mentioned in this article was created several years ago. Voice of Martyrs Korea released a version of the video with English subtitles in June 2019.\u00a0 North Korean authorities recently circulated a \u2018\u201ccivic education\u201d video criticizing illegal religious activities committed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":54855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[759,1124,1656],"class_list":["post-54851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-china","tag-crackdowns","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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