A/HRC/25/CRP.1 technology was quite developed. His act of making this statement was reported, and he was called in for questioning. He was accused of praising capitalist nations and though he was not charged or arrested (due to his good songbun and general good behaviour), he was removed from his position.240 233. The monitoring of the individual’s actions to assess and determine their loyalty happens at various junctures in their life. • Mr Kim Joo-il explained at the London Public Hearing, for example, how the Korean People’s Army has a two-track system of official political monitoring whereby the commanding captain and a second political officer of a company monitor the soldiers’ political loyalty and then report to the Korean People’s Army (KPA) political department run by the Workers’ Party of Korea. In addition, every platoon stationed close to the Demilitarized Zone also had an officer from the KPA’s Military Security Command (the army’s own secret police). Every morning, they would participate in an indoctrination session from 9 to 11 a.m.241 • One witness stated that in the DPRK, people with low songbun are required to monitor each other. Her father could not join the Party. He was nonetheless forced to work as a spy for the SSD, investigating the Japanese wife of his friend because the SSD wanted to learn more about letters that she was receiving. The witness also described the general fear most people live in. People cannot tell their families what they think or talk about attempting to escape the DPRK. An elderly woman in her neighbourhood was imprisoned in Camp No. 15 at Yodok for 10 years after her daughter-in-law told authorities of plans to escape involving her and her son. When the witness’s family (her mother, father, sister, brother, husband and daughter) left the DPRK, they did not tell her uncle. After they left, they heard that he was interrogated and severely tortured. His injuries were so severe that he was unable to move for a long time after the torture.242 234. Witnesses also spoke of how their movements or the movements of their family members were monitored more closely because of their backgrounds.243 235. Having come from South Korea, Mr Lee Jae-geun, who provided information to the Commission in Seoul, felt that he was under close surveillance. He stated how there were seven levels of surveillance monitoring him, and that everyone was watching every single word he uttered, every single act he undertook. Anything that appeared suspicious was reported to the SSD.244 • One witness, whose parents were born in Japan and then “returned” to the DPRK, believed that their family was closely monitored because they were returnees. Her parents never talked about their former life in Japan. They advised her never to talk about Japan in her school. Party officials came to their home and questioned the family, particularly when they received mail from Japan.245 • A Japanese national, who had moved to the DPRK with her adoptive parents and later married a Korean who had also “returned” from Japan, recalled having to write 240 241 242 243 244 245 TAP011. London Public Hearing, 23 October 2013, session 4 (with additional details provided by the witness in a confidential interview). TSH051. TBG016. Seoul Public Hearing, 23 August 2013, morning. TJH026. 65