Rising Incidents of North Koreans Attacking Police Officers in the Streets

Documents leaked to Radio Free Asia reveal that North Koreans are increasingly attacking police officers in the streets across the country, as they grow tired of police brutality and corruption. Many North Koreans are aware of how hard their lives are compared to the rest of the world and have resorted to smuggling in outside cell phones, receiving foreign currency, or joining an underground black market economy to survive. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the country's economic struggles, and a public unafraid of its repressive law enforcement is a sign that the Kim regime is rotting from the inside and could be the beginning of a wider revolt.