Soldiers are deployed for vigilance, which is familiar sight in North Korea. Taken by Kim Dong-cheol at Pyongsung City of South Pyongan Province on June 2010. (ASIAPRESS)
It is certain that this kind of disconcertion is for the security of Kim Jong-un. It is called ‘Number 1 Event’ at which Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong-un attends. A defector from North Korea who had attended several times at ‘No1 Event’ said “It is normal to pay great attention on this level of national event” and testified as follows: “No participants without exception receive any details of the event in advance. More than four times of body search is done by agents of the Security Forces (Police), the State Security Department (Secret police), and its Event Department (In charge of No 1 Event) on participants’ way to the venue. Any metal or hard material including cell phone can’t remain in pockets. It is because, so called ‘the security for the head of revolution members.”
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Although the foreign reporters to report the Worker`s Party congress were heavily checked for their belongings, it is not comparable what the residents had experienced for security checks. It is certain that the people in North Korea had greatly experienced inconvenience due to the vigilance and security.
* Editor's notes on North Korean reporters
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