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User ID: 11619293 United States 01/15/2013 04:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | North Korea steps up surveillance of citizens with 16,000 CCTV cameras That figure is on top of the 85,570 similar cameras that it has bought in the past three years, with the total cost running to more than £6.22 million, according to South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. Citing Chinese export statistics on its trade with North Korea, the paper quoted analysts as saying that many of the cameras are being positioned at key points along the long border the two nations share in order to detect and capture would-be defectors from the North. The new regime of Kim Jong-un has carried out a crackdown on people hoping to escape their repressive homeland, as well as anyone using a mobile phone to communicate across the border and smugglers bringing in banned newspapers, books and recordings of television programmes that show the lives of people in prosperous South Korea. [ link to www.telegraph.co.uk] |