{"id":129,"date":"2014-04-09T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T06:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.01.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang-2\/2014\/04\/report\/censorship-unit-dispatched_jang-song-taek-purge\/"},"modified":"2018-08-24T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T09:22:18","slug":"censorship-unit-dispatched_jang-song-taek-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2014\/04\/news\/censorship-unit-dispatched_jang-song-taek-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive \"Censorship Unit\" Dispatched to Border Town - Presumably To Prevent Escapes Related to the Jang Song-taek Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"
2014\/January\/09<\/span> Tension near the Chinese border area continues to increase in the new year.\u00a0<\/span> \"The Censorship Unit, composed of 100 or so personnel, was dispatched directly from the Party Central (NOTE; This indicates the Central Politburo of Pyongyang which leads the Korean Workers' Party\/KWP).\u00a0Most probably it is related to the purge of Jang Song-taek. Local officials are also engaged in the censorship, but they are basically tasked with controling the border. The purge is having a stressful effect on all of us.\"<\/span><\/p>\n Another partner, in Ranggang Province, reports that the Censorship Unit was formed by the Organization and Guidance Department of the Party Central of KWP.<\/span><\/p>\n
Written by\u00a0PAEK Chang-ryong,\u00a0<\/em>a defector reporter.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
We have received information that large scale crackdowns by the state are taking place in the northern city of Hyesan, which shares a border with Jilin Province of China. These crackdowns are being carried out by the massive \"Censorship Unit\"(\uac80\uc5f4\ub2e8) dispatched from Pyongyang. Further information has also come out of the border area that a border guard has fired on women who tried to escape and defect by crossing the border river, Amrok-gang(Yalu River). Our reporting partner, living in the border town in Ryanggang Province, reported the following via phone conversations on 8 January:<\/span><\/p>\n