DPRK intelligence agencies

The DPRK special services are state organizations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , which are engaged in intelligence and counterintelligence activities and conduct other activities in the field of state security .

Key intelligence services :

35th room (cor. "35 ho sil")
DPRK State Security Department
Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the KPA (cor.chonchkhalguk)
Ministry of Public Security .

Content

“35th room” (cor. “35 ho sil”)

The smallest, but also the most influential intelligence agency, and it deals not only with South Korea. The structure includes sectors: South Korea, Japan, the international sector, the USA, Southeast Asia, general and operational (there are disagreements over the list of sectors). Russia is under the jurisdiction of the International Sector, which deals with those countries that are not within the competence of specialized sectors (Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and China).

Ministry of State Security (cor. "Kukka anjon povison")

The Ministry is the main and most numerous intelligence service of the DPRK. The state has about 50 thousand people ^[1] .

The ministry is responsible for internal and external intelligence, counterintelligence and political investigation, but it does not protect the government and the head of state.

KPA General Staff Intelligence Directorate (Cor. Chonchalguk)

Army intelligence. Departments:

political
intelligence department (five separate intelligence battalions obey)
radio engineering department (electronic intelligence)
training and planning
marine (in particular, knows the means of casting agents)

Ministry of Public Security ("Sahwe Anjon Son")

Political and ordinary police.

Communications Department

Unlike other intelligence agencies in the socialist countries, the pair “military intelligence - political intelligence” has been replaced by the triad “military intelligence - political intelligence - party intelligence”. It was this “communications department” that was party intelligence. Now it is officially called the "Social and Cultural Department."

The Social and Cultural Department includes:

four regional sectors, each of which is engaged in operations in a particular region of South Korea
sector that oversees nationwide structures
several technical sectors
several foreign trade companies, which are called upon to provide it with the currency necessary for operations.

United Front Division

He is engaged in propaganda in the territory of South Korea .

Drops with balloons to the territory of South Korea about 100 thousand leaflets
allegedly "underground South Korean" radio station "Voice of the Salvation of the Homeland" is broadcasting from the border Caeson
individual operations on the ideological treatment of South Korean opposition are widely held

Notes

↑ Alexander Kondrashov. As North Korean intelligence agencies serve the Kim family (neopr.) . Arguments of the week. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 18, 2013.

Links

DPRK special services at the Agent.
Lankov A.N. Special services of the DPRK (neopr.) . world.lib.ru. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 18, 2013.

[1] Alexander Kondrashov. As North Korean intelligence agencies serve the Kim family (neopr.) . Arguments of the week. Date of treatment April 13, 2013. Archived April 18, 2013.