North Korea is cracking down on mobile phone use and leaks of information abroad, said a Seoul-based radio station run by former North Korean defectors.
Free North Korea Radio said the North’s National Security Agency and State Security Department are investigating information leaks about North Korea’s internal situation.
The report quoted a source in North Korea located in North Hamkyong Province, as saying a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party made workers confess whether they had mobile phones or improperly recorded videos.
The workers were ordered to “give their mobile phones to security agencies or throw them over the walls of security centers or the State Security Department within two days.”
“If you follow the order, you are generously forgiven, but if you’re caught using a cell phone, you are considered a traitor and severely punished,” the source said.
The report also said security authorities launched in Onsong a joint inspection and surprise searches of the homes of the families of North Korean defectors on the blacklist.
Security officers were ordered to immediately track down and report any suspicious moves by defectors’ families.
Another source in the northeastern city of Chongjin, North Hamkyong Province, said, “Two ethnic Chinese men from abroad in their early 40s were executed on suspicion of leaking internal information on North Korea … at 10 a.m. Tuesday.”
Dong-a Ilbo
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