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Despite predictions that Kim Jong Un’s ‘terror politics’ could push residents and Party cadres toward dissent, many experts in the field warn against cleaving to assessments of rapid destabilization of the regime in the short-term future.
“It’s extremely difficult to do anything against the government in North Korea because the surveillance mechanisms are at least ten times more developed than other countries possessing high-tech surveillance devices,” Kim Young Hwan, senior researcher...

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(ATTN: UPDATES with expert’s comments, background from 8th para)
By Lee Haye-ah

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SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) — Scud missiles fired into Saudi Arabia by Yemeni rebels in recent months came from North Korea, a South Korean intelligence official said Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia has shot down about 40 percent of some 20 Scud missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, said the official, who is familiar with the issue....

Despite efforts by Pyongyang’s state-run media to smear South Korea and condemn its “egregious human rights violations” using a recent scandal that erupted over the use of hacking software by Seoul’s spy agency, more people in the North believe it reflects...