N. Korean government review finds that many violators of state secrets law were state security officials
The results of the recent year-end review suggest that internal discipline in the Ministry of State Security is not particularly robust
Members of the Ministry of State Security (MSS) are tasked with protecting state secrets, but a review of violators of the 2023 State Secrets Protection Law revealed that many violators were these very same MSS officials and their families. Over 100 violations of the law were uncovered in South Hwanghae Province alone.
Presumably this problem was supposed to be secret too.
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Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime
Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe, bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even the innocent.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même.
My guess is that the more state secrets you have, the harder it is to keep them.
Doonhamer - some years ago I was chatting with a retired coal miner and he raised the subject of buying a new car. He said he sometimes wondered about the point of owning a car because of the endless proliferation of laws and regulations. In his view it is barely possible to drive a car at all without the risk of falling foul of the law.
Sam - probably so, especially with varying levels of secrecy. It probably becomes too complex to manage.
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