Daily NK
26 July 2016
Kang Mi Jin
North Korean border patrol guards in some areas of
Ryanggang Province are busy searching for and capturing an unseasonably high
number of snakes at the behest of the authorities, who claim Seoul’s spy agency
deliberately released them in the region.
“From early this month, border patrol units received
orders to capture snakes before they crawl over the banks of Amnok [Yalu]
River,” a source from Ryanggang Province told Daily NK in a recent telephone
conversation. “The key message from the Party was that the South’s National
Intelligence Service had released snakes as part of a ‘cunning scheme’ to
challenge our unity.” […]
[S]tate propaganda proclaimed in the past that the
excessive number of stick insects pervading corn fields was due to U.S.
imperialist scheming. […]