Does Taiwan Collect Intelligence In North Korea?

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( KWIC Jan 14 Tomiyama Satoko ) According to the source in Taipei, the National Security Bureau of Taiwan will set up an office in Pyongyang and the Military Intelligence Bureau ( Taiwan ) has sent its intelligence agents to North Korea to collect the military intelligence of China.

North Korea is a country well acknowledged in the world for its intelligence collection. At the same time, it is also a country the most difficult to penetrate. The intelligence organization of North Korea is in the charge of the Third Department under which are the Foreign Intelligence Section, the Social and Cultural Section, the United Front Section, and the Operational Section of the Labor Party. On the other hand, the People’s Army also has under it the Reconnaissance Bureau and seven liaison offices. In 1994, the US reconnaissance satellite took a picture of the large rocket of North Korea, which the CIA named Daepodong1 . However, the Japanese military observers indicated that there is now no place in North Korea by the name of Daepodong1 and that this was a name in the colonial time. It can be inferred that the CIA used the Korean map before the wartime. Does the CIA have any human spies in North Korea?

Like the political and military fields where the ideology of independence ( Zhu Ti Si Xiang) is the guiding principle, the intelligence field of North Korea also maintains a high degree of independence and self-reliance. Even in the early 1980’s when both China and North Korea enjoyed a relatively friendly relationship, the personnel training of North Korea’s intelligence organization remained highly mysterious.

At that time, the former worker of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, Kim hyug hee, was in disguise in Guangzhou to receive the education intended to make the intelligence agents more Chinese-like. At that time, North Korea had a trade office in Guangzhou. There are indications that if the intelligence cooperation between North Korea and Taiwan exists, then it is, at the most, limited to the exchange of the information on China. Even though the relationship between China and North Korea has actually cooled down, Kim Jun Il wouldn’t go as far as to be so ignorant of the international politics that he will end up losing the last source of support ( KWIC Satoko Tomiyama ).