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Korean remittance broker faces espionage charges after scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A remittance broker in his 50s in Hoeryong was recently arrested by North Korean state security agents on espionage charges, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that the broker is being harshly interrogated on espionage charges following his arrest on July 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The broker was arrested by the Ministry of State Security following an unsavory episode involving the family of a North Korean defector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April, the broker met with a defector\u2019s family in Chongjin to pass on a remittance of USD 1,000. The broker let the defector\u2019s family members hold the cash long enough to take a photograph to confirm its safe delivery and then took the cash back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The broker then asked the defector\u2019s family what they planned to do with the money and whether they were running a business. Then he told the family that if they entrusted the money to him for one month, he would pay them the principal back along with USD 300 in interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the defector\u2019s family did not have a business and were just using the money to cover their expenses, they were intrigued by the broker\u2019s offer of USD 300 in interest and put the USD 1,000 in his charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But after a month had passed, the broker asked for another month, playing for time. He held onto the family\u2019s remittance until early July, when he flatly refused to give it back, claiming that the money was tied up in property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defector\u2019s family began demanding that the broker at least return the principal, and before long their argument had escalated into a brawl that aroused the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Broker charged with espionage<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Informers eventually brought the incident to the attention of Hoeryong&#8217;s branch of the Ministry of State Security. Agents soon raided the broker\u2019s house, where they found a Chinese mobile phone and American currency and arrested the broker on the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry charged the broker with espionage because he had accessed information about the outside world through the WeChat messaging app on his Chinese mobile phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply having WeChat on a Chinese mobile phone was already a serious problem, but the broker had also mentioned the titles of South Korean films and television shows in his chat history. That basically left him with no wriggle room, the source explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEspionage charges have become a virtual death sentence over the past few years. Some remittance brokers have been brazenly ripping off defectors\u2019 families in the knowledge that the families won\u2019t report them for fear of being punished themselves. This broker tried to make off with USD 1,000 but is now in peril of losing his life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One member of the family that tried to recover their money is serving a six-month sentence at a labor camp because of the incident, the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources living in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous for security reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20240805-4\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remittance broker in his 50s in Hoeryong was recently arrested by North Korean state security agents on espionage charges, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that the broker is being harshly interrogated on espionage charges following his arrest on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":50541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[162,773,776,922,948,1439,1941,3243],"class_list":["post-60647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ministry-of-state-security","tag-north-hamgyong-province","tag-chongjin","tag-south-korea","tag-mobile-phones","tag-hoeryong","tag-espionage","tag-crime-corruption"],"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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