Mick Hartley

More from the Daily NK on the crackdown on "impure videos" from South Korea, with reports of inspectors breaking down doors to check what people are watching:

Crackdowns and inspections targeting the consumption or distribution of foreign content, including South Korean movies and dramas, have suddenly intensified in North Hamgyong Province after a period of inactivity.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province said Monday that members of an enforcement group tasked with curbing non-socialist behavior “have recently been inspecting homes in Hoeryong’s neighborhood watch units to determine if they are watching impure videos.” He said people are inconvenienced “because the inspectors barge in unannounced twice or thrice a day.”

He continued, “Public discontent is especially growing because the inspectors break down your door if nobody opens it right away when they knock or act as if you’ve committed some sort of felony.”

The source said the intensified inspection campaign is due to an order from the national headquarters of the so-called unified command on non-socialist and anti-socialist behavior issued in mid-May to “Unified Command 82” branches nationwide instructing them to “root out anti-socialist and non-socialist phenomena, especially the watching of impure videos.”