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Heavy reliance on Chinese surveillance technology has allowed North Korea to keep its population under tight control and make illegal border crossings difficult, as the isolated country expands digital transformation aimed at controlling “various facets of public and private life”.
The foreign ministry on Monday denounced “military interference” and what it called increased surveillance of North Korea by US allies “under the pretext of monitoring violation of UN sanctions”, in a statement carried by state-controlled news agency KCNA.
The propaganda shift also reflected Pyongyang’s stance to treat Seoul as a separate enemy state, and deviated from approaches by Kim’s predecessors that recognised blood ties with the South.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94, the North’s state media said.
SEOUL — Kim Ki-nam, one of the longest-serving North Korean officials who served all three generations of its leaders cementing their political legitimacy and heading the propaganda apparatus for the dynastic state, has died, official media said on Wednesday (May 8).
SEOUL/TOKYO -- The abrupt disbanding of an expert panel tasked with monitoring North Korean compliance with United Nations sanctions has raised concerns that Pyongyang will have a free hand to ramp up its nuclear weapons and missile development.
SEOUL — For the first time since leader Kim Jong-un took power in 2011, North Koreans were asked to take loyalty oaths on his birthday, said a South Korean research institute, amid other steps the country is taking to solidify his rule.
