MIRROR
A North Korean intelligence agent is facing the firing squad after he was caught using his internet privileges to Google Kim Jong-un.
North Korea strictly curtails internet access to prevent its citizens from learning about the outside world and agents can’t get online without permission from their handlers.
Several agents from the regime’s secretive Bureau 10, which keeps watch on all internal and external electronic communications, were caught browsing the web without authorisation.
Now the one who researched the country’s leader faces death by firing squad, a ministry source told Daily NK, a newspaper based in neighbouring South Korea.
A Pyongyang source said the agents were ratted out by a colleague in the Ministry of State Security, thus prompting an inspection into their activity which found the illicit research.
The source said: “Bureau 10 departments are given access to the internet, which had allowed agents to turn off their search word recording devices and search the web as much as they like without issue.
“But after a new bureau chief took over, even these previously routine issues have turned into major incidents.”
Greg Scarlatoiu, director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said the regime’s information firewall was falling apart.
