{"id":65780,"date":"2025-12-16T22:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=65780"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:37:17","slug":"public-trials-surge-in-pyongsong-as-n-korea-tightens-control-before-ninth-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/public-trials-surge-in-pyongsong-as-n-korea-tightens-control-before-ninth-party-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Public trials surge in Pyongsong as N. Korea tightens control before Ninth Party Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Several trials have been held in Pyongsong&#8217;s party committee square over the past two months, with authorities targeting contraband sales, unauthorized distribution and foreign currency transactions to instill &#8220;quiet terror&#8221; and reinforce discipline ahead of next year&#8217;s major political event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;Several public trials have been held in the square in front of the municipal party committee building in Pyongsong over the past two months. People have been paying close attention to these public trials, which bring people on stage to confess their wrongdoing,&#8221; a source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;The government describes the sale of contraband, the unauthorized distribution of controlled goods and the &#8216;non-socialist&#8217; circulation of foreign currency as being &#8216;phenomena that undermine socialist discipline.&#8217; For that reason, the authorities have been more strictly policing such activities and making more offenders confess their crimes in public,&#8221; the source went on to say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Public trials for all kinds of crimes are regarded as an effective measure of fear-based public control. These trials send the message that such actions will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">As for the recent increase in public trials in Pyongsong, North Koreans generally think the regime is attempting to instill internal discipline before the Ninth Party Congress. Given the increase of social, including ideological deviation and economic discontent, the regime appears to be tightening the reins to keep the public obedient and orderly before this large-scale political event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;The regime is obviously determined to reinforce discipline before the Ninth Party Congress and will keep up those efforts until the event. I get the feeling they&#8217;re deliberately holding public trials over minor infractions to spread &#8216;quiet terror,'&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\"><strong>Market vendors fear fines more than prison time<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Pyongsong residents have recently been gossiping about the public trial of a market vendor of soybean oil. The vendor, who dealt in large quantities of oil, was nabbed for casually accepting foreign currency while selling oil at the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The regime appears to be strictly policing any individuals who accept foreign currency in exchange for goods at the country&#8217;s informal markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;It would be hard to find any big-time merchants who don&#8217;t have any dealings in foreign currency. Since pretty much all market business is tied to foreign currency, frequent arrests are another cause of concern at the markets,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The crackdown on foreign currency transactions between individuals is reportedly continuing at marketplaces. Rather than criminal prosecution, enforcers are focusing on imposing financial pain by confiscating the cash in the transaction. Those forfeitures have serious consequences for the people involved, the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">But what market vendors fear the most is a fine. When their sales are already so meager, a criminal fine\u2014which can run in the hundreds of thousands of won\u2014can wreck their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;A single fine can wipe out a couple months&#8217; worth of earnings. Nowadays, vendors say they&#8217;re more scared of fines than prison time,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The source noted that the number of instructions, guidance and warnings that vendors receive from the market management office has been gradually on the rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">&#8220;The management office&#8217;s constant nagging is wearing out vendors,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20251211-3\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several trials have been held in Pyongsong&#8217;s party committee square over the past two months, with authorities targeting contraband sales, unauthorized distribution and foreign currency transactions to instill &#8220;quiet terror&#8221; and reinforce discipline ahead of next year&#8217;s major political event. &#8220;Several public trials have been held in the square in front of the municipal party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":43588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,681,1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public trials surge in Pyongsong as N. 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