On October 12, the Ministry 'sent down a project agenda for protecting the safety of the Chief of the Revolution (an honorific used for Kim),' the source said. 'This is in response to the recent increase in political tensions upsetting social stability.'
He continued: 'Police were ordered to find and eliminate factors that could be maneuvered by impure hostiles among the residents … in their jurisdiction within this month.' Impure hostiles refers to people whose loyalty to North Korea's supreme leader may have wavered - and who might influence others to take the same path.
The source also said that police have been ordered to 'remove all subjects who have illegally entered their jurisdiction' and to prevent 'problematic subjects from leaving their jurisdiction to other areas'.
The judicial source told RFA that police have been ordered to carry out daily 'search and patrol checks' for such problematic citizens.
This will be done in cooperation with 'security forces, special agencies, and the Worker-Peasant Red Guards', he said. The Worker-Peasant Red Guards is a North Korean paramilitary group, and forms the country's largest civil defence force.
Police have also been tasked with keeping tabs on and reporting 'rumours', and told to work to prevent their spread among those in their jurisdiction.
'They must thoroughly control and report on the trends and public sentiments of the residents under the pretext of recent political tensions,' the source told RFA.
However, officials are growing tired with the workload, he said, with some complaining of fatigue thanks to being made to work late into the night.
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