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#NorthKorea #China #Yanggang #Shoted #smuggled

The North Korean border patrol in Yanggang Province recently shot dead a North Korean smuggler after an announcement earlier this month that anyone found in designated "strict security zones" near the border would be shot on sight.

"A smuggler in his 30s was shot and killed at around 11 p.m. on September 14 by border guards in a mountainous area in Taehongdan near the [Sino-North Korean] border," a source in Yanggang Province said last Thursday.

Local people who heard reports about the incident are terrified to know that [the border patrol] actually opened fire and killed someone. "The smuggler conspired with a deputy squad commander (staff sergeant) of the Storm Corps,

who was recently deployed to Taehongdan County, to smuggle blueberries across the border." The smuggler was reported to have carried 20 kilograms of blueberries in a bag across the border, but was discovered by a border patrol unit as he returned across the border and was fired.

Some locals were surprised by the incident, according to the source, saying that they assumed the authorities were simply attempting to shoot at border crossers and that it was shocking to think that the military was possibly turning its weapons on its own civilians.

“Locals usually sell blueberries, pine nuts and medicinal herbs [to China] during September and October to earn enough to get through the next year, but the tense atmosphere near the border has made smuggling unthinkable,” the source said.

Order by the Northkorean regiem to its military forces:

An picture showing parts of the recent order handed down by the Ministry of Social Security mentioning (circulated in red) that anyone detected in the buffer zone would be shot.