It has been reported that North Korea’s Ministry of Social Security requested the Corrections Bureau and each provincial security bureau to prepare specific measures to develop the judicial sector and strengthen social stability as the first order for the new year of 2025.
Daily NK, a source inside North Korea, said on the 6th, “On the 1st, the Ministry of Social Security focused on ‘improving correctional policies and establishing a system for reintegration into society through human transformation’ to the Correctional Bureau, and ‘inspecting disaster prevention systems and strengthening local law and order’ to each provincial safety bureau. “The first order of the new year was issued,” he said.
This is interpreted as an initial step to implement the tasks in the judicial sector presented at the 11th plenary session of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party at the end of last year.
According to the source, in this order, the Ministry of Social Security emphasized that the Bureau of Corrections must first convert inmates into healthy productive personnel through ideological and technical education. At the same time, he ordered improvement in the way to carry out correctional political projects and punitive tasks this month.
He then instructed provincial safety bureaus to inspect the disaster prevention system by the end of this month and prepare action plans to strengthen local law and order. Regarding this, the source said, “This directive is a measure to strengthen the legal system that protects people’s lives and property from disasters and dangers.”
As a result, this directive is interpreted as reflecting the North Korean authorities’ will to promote national development and social stability by strengthening law and order while making human transformation through reform policy the core foundation for the development of socialist justice.
The source said, “This directive reflects the party’s will to establish a socially stable judicial system through human reform and strengthening law and order.”
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Social Security is said to have instructed the Bureau of Corrections to clarify measures to prevent recidivism among correctional students and increase their ability to adapt after returning to society.
Specifically, by carrying out punitive tasks such as farming, livestock, vegetables, processing of export products, and construction, we strengthen technical training for inmates, expand individual discourse to support social adaptation, and, when necessary, impose sentences on exemplary inmates. Sources say that an order was made to significantly increase the shortening.
At the same time, the Ministry of Social Security is said to have emphasized that in the new year, it will pursue a reform policy centered on the goal that ‘those subject to reform should be transformed from criminals into new social people with the belief that the people come first and released into society.’
Meanwhile, it is said that judicial administration guidelines for January were delivered to each provincial safety bureau to strengthen law and order in each region. Accordingly, the provincial safety bureaus reportedly plan to establish a law enforcement plan this month that reflects the characteristics of each region and focus on securing the trust of residents through education rather than punishment.
The source said, “Inspection of rescue equipment in preparation for natural disasters in the winter, improvement of the flood warning system in the summer, and establishment of an emergency response system were selected as major tasks, and instructions were given to focus on crackdown on illegal activities and crime prevention in January.” “There was also an internal guideline from the Security Bureau that judges should be careful not to get caught as a pilot,” he said.
Source: www.dailynk.com
