North Korean authorities are interrogating students to weed out drug-using parents - Polidicks

[QUOTE]North Korean authorities have stepped up their surveillance of citizens believed to be drug users by interrogating their children in schools, employing an old reviled method of weeding out drug users that had been discontinued by former leader Kim Jong Il, sources inside the country said. “Security officials in charge of schools are intimidating and interrogating elementary school students to investigate drug offenses, and their parents have been immensely shocked about it,” a source in South Hamgyong province told RFA’s Korean Service. [B]During one such period of intensive investigation of local drug use, a security official in Sapo district of Hamhung, capital of South Hamgyong province, drew pictures of paraphernalia for injecting drugs on the board in an elementary school and asked the seven-year-old students in the class what they were, the source said. The security official from the country’s state security department, which is similar to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recorded the names of all the students who responded with “konapal” or “koggiri,” Korean slang words for drug paraphernalia. He called them up one by one to ask them how they knew the names of the items, the source said.[/B] As the security official cajoled and threatened the students into giving him information, many of them admitted that their parents used drugs. Their parents were then arrested on drug offenses, the source said. The state security department’s use of children to crack down on adults has infuriated many citizens, sources said. “All residents in people’s units are forced to anonymously turn in materials relevant to drug offenses,” a source in North Hamgyong province told RFA. “Kim Jong Un’s regime has resurrected the method of investigation which [former leader] Kim Jong Il suspended because of worries about public disaffection.” “Now anonymous investigations are only focusing on drugs, but they likely can be extended later,” the source said. “North Korean residents are at odds, suspecting each other because of the anonymous investigations of drug offenses.’ “The state security department has taken the lead in instigating social conflicts,” he added. State security agencies under former leader Kim Jong Il employed such methods to try to eradicate drug smuggling into the isolated country.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/authorities-interrogate-children-to-weed-out-adult-drug-users-06112015145631.html"]source[/URL]

[QUOTE]“Kim Jong Un’s regime has resurrected the method of investigation which [former leader] Kim Jong Il suspended because of worries about public disaffection.”[/QUOTE] You know shit's crackling when you don't do crackdowns on crackdens because you're afraid your ratings will take a crack and crumble.

[QUOTE=Riller;47950770]You know shit's crackling when you don't do crackdowns on crackdens because you're afraid your ratings will take a crack and crumble.[/QUOTE] This cracked me up

I wonder how this report slipped through the cracks.

geez it's not like they burned down a building or something

It's not at all surprising. Totalitarian states generally encourage people ratting on each other.

Jong-Un doesn't seem to be a very intelligent leader. Sure, interrogating children will reveal parents who use these drugs - but the fact we're hearing about this in the west means this had stirred some discontent.

This coming from a nation state that legalized weed, when so many Western countries shun the starry herb. You'd think they'd be cool with the other stuff, but of course that would mean freedom of choice, which isn't what the caddish despot is going for. He probably just wants to be queen bee, with everyone else being workers and drones buzzing around him, but he'll need to eat a lot more royal jelly to get anywhere close to that reality, not to mention wash it all down with a glass of FEV.

isn't meth legal there? if so i imagine it is so they can push their people as workers farther than normal, wouldn't be surprised if they're looking at curbing opiate use

Its amazing how behind the times North Korea is. The U.S. has been doing stuff like this for ages.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;47951678]Its amazing how behind the times North Korea is. The U.S. has been doing stuff like this for ages.[/QUOTE] Source? First time I've heard about that.

[QUOTE]North Korean authorities are interrogating students to [B]weed[/B] out drug-using parents[/QUOTE]

is it bad that the first time i saw this thread, i only read the second half of the thread title and automatically assumed it was US public schools that were doing this?

Regardless of how you feel about parents using drugs to cope being in a Orwellian totalitarian empire, abusing a child's innocence is despicable.

Another nasty side effect of the war on drugs. Cant let people alter their conciousness on those untaxed drugs. But we still see ad's everywhere for Bud Light and Miller High Life

those puns in drug related articles are getting really annoying now

[QUOTE=Monkah;47951783][/QUOTE] I think weed is legal in North Korea.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;47951778][QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;47951678]Its amazing how behind the times North Korea is. The U.S. has been doing stuff like this for ages.[/QUOTE] Source? First time I've heard about that.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/04/18/Elementary-student-detained-taken-from-mother-after-defending-medical-marijuana-at-school/8081429375727/[/url] This comes to mind, can't think of any other instances though

[QUOTE=cody8295;47954051]Another nasty side effect of the war on drugs. Cant let people alter their conciousness on those untaxed drugs. [B]But we still see ad's everywhere for Bud Light and Miller High Life[/B][/QUOTE] Did you even read the title? This is in North Korea. Like seriously, you failed at reading comprehension on a really basic level

[QUOTE=Starlight 456;47956852]Did you even read the title? This is in North Korea. Like seriously, you failed at reading comprehension on a really basic level[/QUOTE] Another nasty side effect of being cody8295.

[QUOTE=cody8295;47954051]Another nasty side effect of the war on drugs. Cant let people alter their conciousness on those untaxed drugs. But we still see ad's everywhere for Bud Light and Miller High Life[/QUOTE] Im so glad the war on drugs (a western concept) affects north Korea (a country that despises the western world).

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;47951664]isn't meth legal there? if so i imagine it is so they can push their people as workers farther than normal, wouldn't be surprised if they're looking at curbing opiate use[/QUOTE] No it isn't. Pot is legal though.