There has been recent news about how officials throughout North Korea are searching for the perpetrators who wrote leaflets and defaced walls with statements disparaging Kim Jong Un. Graffiti has been noted in major cities in the North, including Pyongyang, Chongjin, Hamhung, Pyongsong and Sariwon over the last few months.

The most widely known incident occurred in the village of Posong in Samsu County of Ryanggang Province, just across the Yalu River from China’s Jilin province. There on New Years Day, someone had prepared a leaflet in Chinese characters with the phrase, “Kim Jong Un is a son of a (rhymes with ‘witch’).”  The leaflet was posted at the Posong train station on a wall right under a portrait of Kim Il Song. Due to holiday traffic, news of this occurrence has now spread all across the country.