{"id":55794,"date":"2023-08-10T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=55794"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:35:23","slug":"north-korean-security-agents-increasingly-relies-wiretaps-catch-law-violators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-security-agents-increasingly-relies-wiretaps-catch-law-violators\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean security agents increasingly rely on wiretaps to catch law violators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s state security agency has recently been devoting more resources to wiretapping citizens\u2019 landlines and mobiles phones, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRecently, wiretapping by the Ministry of State Security in Hoeryong has grown worse than ever before, and numerous people are being caught in the dragnet and brought in for questioning,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Aug. 2, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source mentioned one broker who is cooling his heels in jail after being nabbed through wiretapping by state security agents in mid-July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the broker had spoken on the phone with the family of a North Korean defector who wanted money delivered to their home in the interior of the country. Two days after that phone call, security agents raided his home and demanded he hand over his Chinese-made mobile phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the broker had not been caught red-handed, he insisted that they had the wrong man. But then the security agents played him a recording of his phone conversation with the defector\u2019s family, making it impossible for him to keep feigning innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou should just hand over the phone while we\u2019re asking you so nicely, because you know what will happen if you make us ransack your house to find it,\u201d an agent told him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, the broker turned over his Chinese-made phone and was taken into custody by the security agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people have to confess their crimes when the security agents play them recordings of their own telephone conversations, and the mobile phones they hand over are then used as evidence for hunting down even more offenders,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe broker\u2019s mobile phone included evidence that he had delivered money to a defector\u2019s family four months ago, and one member of the family is now being questioned by security agents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source explained that the Ministry of State Security is further restricting people\u2019s activities with its frequent use of wiretapping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut since the people engaged in illegal occupations have no choice but to use Chinese-made mobile phones, I bet they\u2019ll soon come up with a way to dodge security agents\u2019 snooping and stay out of their clutches,\u201d the source claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s state security agency has generally focused its wiretapping on people regarded as likely offenders, including remittance brokers and defectors\u2019 family members. But more recently, the agency has also been wiretapping random people who are not under suspicion of anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs circumstances grow more difficult, discontent and doubt about the Workers&#8217; Party and state are growing. So [the authorities] are wiretapping people to monitor ideological trends and track down impure elements,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Carruth. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. 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\/20230802-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s state security agency has recently been devoting more resources to wiretapping citizens\u2019 landlines and mobiles phones, Daily NK has learned. \u201cRecently, wiretapping by the Ministry of State Security in Hoeryong has grown worse than ever before, and numerous people are being caught in the dragnet and brought in for questioning,\u201d a source in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":50541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,649],"tags":[222,948,1656],"class_list":["post-55794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-china-north-korea-border","tag-border","tag-mobile-phones","tag-dprk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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