Coercion, Control, Surveillance and Punishment: An Examination of the North Korean Police State

'Coercion, Control, Surveillance and Punishment' lifts the curtain on North Korea's three main security agencies - the State Security Department, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Military Security Command. Established with Soviet assistance in the mid to late 1940s and modeled on the Soviet secret police apparatus, North Korea's internal security agencies rely on constant surveillance, a network of informants in every neighborhood, and the threat of punishment in North Korea's notorious prison camps to ensure the Kim regime's total control.