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N. Korea beefs up counterintelligence following nuclear test
Yonhap News ^ | 10/29/06

Posted on 10/29/2006 7:03:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

N. Korea beefs up counterintelligence following nuclear test

SHENYANG, China, Oct. 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has toughened surveillance of locals suspected of gathering information about its atomic and military activities in the wake of its Oct. 9 atomic bomb test, an informed source said Sunday.

The Ministry of People's Security, Pyongyang's top police agency, issued a directive to its security agencies on Oct. 15 that they should closely monitor and report suspicious activities, the source said.

Those subject to stronger surveillance include former North Korean defectors, former convicts, smugglers, merchants and those who have relatives in China, the source said.

"North Korea issued the order for increased surveillance, believing that intelligence activities from the outside will intensify after its underground nuclear test," the source said.

The Security Ministry also decided to conduct a joint inspection with a regional army unit every month and such inspections of accommodation facilities twice every week, the source said.

As China joined the United Nations' punitive sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test, Pyongyang increased guard patrols in its region bordering China out of fear of mass defections by its people, the source said. Also, the value of Chinese currency and rice prices in the North Korean market have risen, the source said.

"In the face of international sanctions, and concerned over possible mass defections, North Korea has dispatched a guard officer every 20 meters along its border region," the source said.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; counterintelligence; northkorea; nucleartest
What this means is that their command and control would be too rigid to be effective. Channels of communication are cut to a minimum to enable complete surveillance.

Chia Head's military is in the same shape as Saddam's.

1 posted on 10/29/2006 7:03:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...
This article also suggests that Kim Jong-il is really afraid of Chinese intel operations.
2 posted on 10/29/2006 7:05:39 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They are in fact concerned about that, yes.


3 posted on 10/29/2006 7:08:02 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; TigerLikesRooster

Another implication is that it might be a good time to feed disinformation into the NK command and control.


4 posted on 10/29/2006 7:26:07 AM PST by AdmSmith
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MI Ping


5 posted on 10/29/2006 7:35:00 AM PST by ASA Vet (If you know how many firearms you have, you don't have enough yet.)
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To: ASA Vet

A safe bet would be on the Chicom Intel versus the NK anti intel thugs.


6 posted on 10/29/2006 7:45:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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I'm sure we're not throwing a little gasoline into their fire....


7 posted on 10/29/2006 7:47:27 AM PST by ASA Vet (If you know how many firearms you have, you don't have enough yet.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

We value your input no matter where you are when doing the inputting. (or something like that.)


8 posted on 10/29/2006 7:49:05 AM PST by ASA Vet (If you know how many firearms you have, you don't have enough yet.)
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To: ASA Vet

"I'm sure we're not throwing a little gasoline into their fire...."

We must not be doing that, or we would have read about it in the NY Slimes, LA Slimes and WashingtonCompost, and we would have seen it on CNN between their sniper snuff videos.


9 posted on 10/29/2006 7:50:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave

There are still a few things we can get away with as long as we don't brief a Congressman, (aka: enemy agent.)


10 posted on 10/29/2006 7:55:54 AM PST by ASA Vet (If you know how many firearms you have, you don't have enough yet.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"North Korea issued the order for increased surveillance, believing that intelligence activities from the outside will intensify after its underground nuclear test," the source said.

Is the PRNK having dialog with Hans Blix?

11 posted on 10/29/2006 8:03:16 AM PST by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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"There are still a few things we can get away with as long as we don't brief a Congressman, (aka: enemy agent.)"

Or one of their rabid hate America/GW homosexuals, like the pervert, who worked for Harman.


12 posted on 10/29/2006 8:07:27 AM PST by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Guess they are paranoid we my find out what really happened


13 posted on 10/29/2006 8:12:22 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; All

OH OH Chia Pet scare of Chinese miltary that classic LOL!!!!


14 posted on 10/29/2006 8:27:08 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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Tomkow they stole your pardoy on North KOrea ping list LOL!


15 posted on 10/29/2006 8:52:10 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: AdmSmith

Feeding them the truth, is *much*
more devastating.


16 posted on 10/29/2006 10:43:05 AM PST by NickatNite2003
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To: TigerLikesRooster

http://freekorea.us/?p=6004 Interesting that kim il was just caught trying to influence things south.


17 posted on 10/29/2006 10:48:54 AM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: monkeywrench
Re #17

It is true.

18 posted on 10/29/2006 2:21:00 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

When there are foreign spies, there is always a stash of foreign arms and advanced communication tools and an unsuspected escape route, maybe they are trying to get that.

It's only natural since these tools are probably 100x more advanced than their old ones.


19 posted on 11/04/2006 8:41:25 AM PST by Petey139
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