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Korea halts all family visits at prisons across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North Korean government has instructed prisons around the country to halt all family visits and only accept care packages, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a reporting partner in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK last Wednesday that the authorities issued this directive because of the complicated political situation in the country between mid-March and mid-May, including numerous political events in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause of warmongering by our enemies, people are being organized to fill out petitions to join the military, and orders have been given to tighten discipline at prisons amid these murky circumstances,\u201d the reporting partner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under those circumstances, Kaechon Concentration Camp has reportedly been paying extra attention to inmates who were apprehended for possessing, viewing or distributing illegal recordings; using illegal mobile phones from overseas; receiving illegal remittances; or attempting to defect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those inmates, who are regarded as having subversive and rebellious tendencies and being liable to rise up against the government, have been clasisified as being among those who should be quickly liquidated in an emergency or war. Given the current political complications, the authorities have concluded that it would be dangeorus to allow inmates to be visited by their family members and have banned such visits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While inmates are still allowed to receive care packages from their family members, the prisons have been ordered to carefully inspect packages before delivering them to inmates and to withhold packages from inmates who behave rebelliously or exhibit impurity in their attitude, words or deeds, the reporting partner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSince this is an important time for planting vegetables and corn, Kaechon Concentration Camp is sending five or six inmates out every day on the work crew while keeping the rest of the inmates in their cells to study the socialist system and the greatness [of the Kim Dynasty],\u201d the reporting partner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMore security guards have been assigned to the work crews, and all the guards have been given live rounds. They\u2019ve been ordered to shoot anybody who acts strangely or seems to be gearing up for an escape.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Day of the Sun (Apr. 15, Kim Il-sung\u2019s birthday), Kaechon Concentration Camp drew up a list of deceased inmates and sent them out to the various provinces. Families who were finally notified that their loved ones had died in prison years ago were too shocked to even shed tears, the reporting partner said.<\/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\/20230503-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Korean government has instructed prisons around the country to halt all family visits and only accept care packages, Daily NK has learned. 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