North Korea recently made available its new Law on Rejecting Reactionary Ideology and Culture in full, which provides critical insights into how the regime identifies and interprets threats to its ability to control information.

Little was known about the law before, even though it has been enforced since late 2020. A state media report on its adoption in December of that year included just a sentence about the law. Even South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does not appear to have had access to it, at least until last year.

The disclosure of the full Rejecting