Secret police crackdown underway in border area
The secret police have reportedly launched a crackdown on its own people in the border region. With information leaks occurring frequently in areas along the...
Workplaces tasked with handing criminal suspects
North Korean police authorities have taken steps to delegate the handling of criminal suspects to workplaces. According to a source in North Hamgyong Province on...
Border security supplies new phone detectors… ‘3 minutes, 5 meters’
North Korean security authorities have reportedly replaced and supplied new portable radio wave detectors to officers stationed along the border region with China. The move...
Crackdown on travelers in border area… Officials carrying confidential documents arrested
North Korea’s main law enforcement agency is currently conducting an intensive crackdown on people traveling to border areas for business trips. According to a report...
Dozens sent to gulag, border region crackdown dampens illegal trade with China
A six-week crackdown of illegal activity in the northern border area this winter netted over 30 people and has cast a pall over the region...
Ministry of State Security and Defense Security Bureau crackdown leads to rise in remittance fees, up to 50%
The fees paid by people sending money to their families in North Korea have gone up 10 percent in the last month and now stand...
Kim Yo-jong’s whopper: Poop balloons represent “People’s Freedom of Expression”
North Korea launched 300 more balloons full of trash and poop in South Korea’s direction this weekend. The latest tit-for-tat barrage began at the end...
Balloons full of poop launched over South Korea needed Kim Jong-un’s direct approval
With North Korea launching balloons full of excrement into South Korea in recent days, the regime seems to be pretending it doesn’t have the power...
Secret police start annual propaganda performances
Propaganda teams organized by the secret police this month started touring the provinces and staging performances about attempted coups to educate the public in how...