The twenty fifth Border Guard Brigade, which is stationed in Yanggang Province, has been changing its personnel each three to 6 months, Day by day NK has realized.
In the direction of the top of August, the twenty fifth Border Guard Brigade changed a few of its divisions, a supply in Yanggang Province instructed Day by day NK on Sept. 19. The replacements are carried out on the orders of the Get together Central Navy Fee.
Within the occasion of a severe incident, army models might arbitrarily substitute battalions or firm models; in peculiar occasions, nonetheless, platoons and squad models are changed each three to 6 months.
The targets of those three-month rotations are trouble-making troopers and battalions stationed subsequent to villages. Whereas the aim of six-month rotations depends upon the actual circumstances, the choice to switch a unit usually appears to be in response to troopers creating an in depth relationship with native villages.
Troopers accountable for guarding the border close to Samjiyon are far faraway from close by villages and have comparatively little contact with locals. As such, these platoons and squads are changed about as soon as each six months.
Against this, in areas like Hyesan the place battalions have frequent and intensive interplay with native residents, problematic battalions are being despatched off to Samjiyon, the supply defined.
Smuggling and defection incidents occur continuously in areas with villages not removed from the border, comparable to Hyesan and Hwajon-li (Pochon County). The battalions in command of guarding these border areas are changed each three months.
Exterior of those common rotations, a smuggling incident can result in a whole battalion being changed, whereas a defection incident can set off a change of publish for a whole platoon or firm. On this manner, the dimensions and scale of a station change depends upon the seriousness of the incident, the supply mentioned.
The supply additionally reported that the Yanggang Province border guard platoons and squads in Hyesan, Kim Jongsuk County, Pochon County, and Taehongdan County have been changed on the finish of final month.
When troopers go into native civilian villages, they expose delicate army data comparable to their on-duty hours, shift rotation occasions, and the place they conduct stakeouts. In an effort to completely stop locals from utilizing this leaked data to mount smuggling and defection makes an attempt, the authorities are utilizing frequent troop rotations to stymie any additional deepening of civilian-military relations.
“Whereas the army is aware of that troopers have to spend some time in a single place with a purpose to get a powerful grasp of the terrain and carry out their duties properly, altering stations each three to 6 months is supposed to dam military-civilian change and forestall incidents,” the supply mentioned.
“If troopers stay in the identical place for a very long time, they will develop near residents and it’s straightforward sufficient to earn slightly meals to eat. However with these troop rotations taking place so rapidly that there’s no time to get to know locals, troopers haven’t any technique to fill their stomachs and discontent amongst their ranks is rising,” he continued.
The supply additionally acknowledged, “This isn’t simply in Yanggang province. These similar station adjustments are being applied amongst border guards in locations like Chagang Province and North Pyongan Province as properly.”
Translated by Rose Adams.
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