{"id":62547,"date":"2025-02-28T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T00:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=62547"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:08:34","slug":"bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribe-taking officer arrested after years of exploiting position in Kangwon province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A North Korean official in charge of policing anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior in Kosong county, Kangwon province, was arrested for corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in the province said recently that the Kangwon provincial party committee convened provincial party officials and provincial law enforcement officers, including the heads of the provincial state security bureau, police bureau and prosecutors\u2019 office, at the provincial party headquarters early this month. The officials were informed during the meeting about the arrest of the head of Kosong county\u2019s anti-socialist and non-socialist unified command, an individual surnamed Kim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim, a state security agent with the rank of lieutenant colonel, had committed numerous infractions during several years of service with the county\u2019s anti-socialist and non-socialist unified command. Numerous complaints from county residents had finally reached the ears of the provincial party committee, leading to Kim\u2019s arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The provincial party committee disclosed several dozen examples of Kim\u2019s misconduct over the years. Notably, he had openly watched banned South Korean videos that he had confiscated and had even shared those videos with friends and family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim\u2019s bribe-taking was a habitual matter. When he caught people engaged in anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior in random nighttime raids, he would let them off the hook for a bribe, and he also accepted bribes to release people who had been apprehended by other officers in the joint command.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKim had such an audacious reputation for soliciting bribes that locals complained he was even worse than Japanese policemen during the colonial era. Even inside the county\u2019s anti-socialist and non-socialist unified command, he had a reputation for being spineless and nasty. Eventually, fed-up locals started reporting him to the provincial party committee, which launched an internal investigation,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After reviewing the various ways Kim had exploited his office, the provincial party committee decided he could no longer lead the county\u2019s unified command and ordered that he be strictly prosecuted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notably, the provincial party committee denounced Kim as a \u201cshort-sighted counter-revolutionary totally corrupted by noxious capitalistic culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the source noted that Kim\u2019s legal punishment had not yet been decided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cConsidering that state security agents haven\u2019t been punished very severely in the past, it\u2019s widely expected that Kim will only lose his party membership and his position,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20250207-5\/\">Read in Korean\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Korean official in charge of policing anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior in Kosong county, Kangwon province, was arrested for corruption. A source in the province said recently that the Kangwon provincial party committee convened provincial party officials and provincial law enforcement officers, including the heads of the provincial state security bureau, police bureau and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":51583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[273,756,791,1024,1124,1646,3243],"class_list":["post-62547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-corruption","tag-kangwon-province","tag-police","tag-investigation","tag-crackdowns","tag-punishment","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>Bribe-taking officer arrested after years of exploiting position in Kangwon province - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A North Korean official in charge of policing anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior in Kangwon province was arrested for corruption.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bribe-taking officer arrested after years of exploiting position in Kangwon province\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A North Korean official in charge of policing anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior in Kangwon province was arrested for corruption.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-28T00:30:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-06T05:08:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/\ub3c4\ub85c\uc704-\uc790\uc804\uac70-1-1024x619-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"619\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeong Seo-yeong\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeong Seo-yeong\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeong Seo-yeong\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9efe4479c399c25bb2d44c871b14e851\"},\"headline\":\"Bribe-taking officer arrested after years of exploiting position in Kangwon province\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T00:30:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-06T05:08:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":398,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/bribe-taking-officer-arrested-years-exploiting-position-kangwon-province\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dailynk.com\\\/english\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2022\\\/05\\\/\ub3c4\ub85c\uc704-\uc790\uc804\uac70-1-1024x619-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"corruption\",\"kangwon province\",\"police\",\"investigation\",\"crackdowns\",\"punishment\",\"Crime &amp; 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