◆ One-Year Sentence Reduction for Each Informant
Using Chinese mobile phones is illegal. If caught, offenders face correctional labor (imprisonment), but authorities have introduced a system where sentences can be reduced by one year for each of three informants identified.
"A money broker caught in December last year was released after naming three people he had transferred money to. Those three individuals will reportedly be banished to remote areas. People receiving money from family members who defected to South Korea or China are so terrified they can barely breathe," (Reporting Partner A)
In Hyesan, money brokers using Chinese mobile phones have been caught consistently for several years. It can now be said that smuggling, border crossings into China, and defections have been almost completely eradicated.
※ ASIAPRESS communicates with its reporting partners through Chinese cell phones smuggled into North Korea.
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