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A large-scale investigation has been underway in the North Korean border town of Hoeryeong to discover those who filmed public executions there earlier this month, ethnic Korean sources in China said Friday.
Japan's NTV on March 16 aired footage of two people being publicly shot dead on March 1 and the execution of another person on March 2 on charges of human trafficking.
The search has been going on since March 17 to ferret out the source and smugglers of the footage as well as even small quantifies of goods traded with China, the sources said.
Under investigation are the local State Safety and Security Agency branch that itself led a crackdown earlier this year and People's Army guards, said a source who lives in the border area.
The source said while more than 50 people crossed the border with China near Hoeryeong every day in the past, there had been only about 10 crossings a day in the past week.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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