Ministry of State Security calls in anti-spouse workers and orders to strengthen anti-spy fight at year-end

Onseong County, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, February 2019. / Photo = Daily NK

It has been reported that North Korea’s Ministry of State Security recently held a two-day training in Pyongyang for anti-spy agents from each provincial security agency and ordered them to strengthen anti-espionage activities by the end of the year.

On the 28th, a North Korean source from Daily NK said, “For two days starting from the 20th, a short-term training was held for the heads of the domestic anti-spying departments of each provincial security department at the invitation office of the National Security Agency headquarters in Pyongyang.” “To ensure purity, the direction of each provincial security bureau’s year-end business in Bantam was presented,” he said.

According to sources, in this raid, the Ministry of National Security responded to the situation of the military alliance with Russia and the escalation of tensions between North and South Korea, and strengthened the unity of the revolutionary ranks by thoroughly hunting down internal instigators of subversive ideology and those subject to agitation. emphasized the problem.

The source said, “Specific instructions were given to strengthen surveillance of residents and separate and investigate those involved in order to prevent the spread of uneasy public opinion or suspicion of national policies related to the deployment of troops to Russia and the hostile state rules between North and South (North and South).” .

In addition, the Ministry of National Security is said to have ordered the use of secret intelligence networks to track and identify those behind subversive forces and to strengthen the unofficial surveillance system to prevent residents from deviating from their ideology.

Regarding this, the source explained, “This is a measure that strongly reflects the state’s will to block rumors among residents and control internal discontent.”

North Korea, which is closely adhering to Russia by sending soldiers to Russia, which is at war with Ukraine, while also severing inter-Korean relations by promoting the theory of two hostile states, has begun a strong crackdown to block elements of instability in the system amidst internal and external crises of international isolation and internal unrest. It is interpreted that

Meanwhile, tensions among residents are said to be growing as this training is expected to further strengthen resident surveillance and ideological control activities of each provincial security bureau at the end of the year.

In fact, the source said, “There is a possibility that there will be an increase in cases of being framed as political prisoners or punished in the future control process,” and “even executives who know the contents of this short-term training are unable to hide their anxiety.”

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Source: www.dailynk.com