The Reconnaissance General Bureau

Executive Summary Section 1 provides an overview of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), the country’s primary foreign intelligence agency. This section outlines the RGB’s main objectives as an organization and explains how its goal of unifying the Korean Peninsula under the Kim regime is linked to human rights violations committed against South Korean citizens. Section 2 explores the historical development of North Korean intelligence prior to the establishment of the RGB. It provides context for the origins of this organization by analyzing earlier agencies that performed counterintelligence work against South Korea in the 20th century. This list includes the Security Bureau, formed under Soviet military leadership, and the National Political Security Department, which combined counterintelligence work with regular policing duties. Section 3 examines the mission of the RGB and analyzes how each of its six main bureaus contributes to this goal. This section argues that the primary objective of the RGB is to incite an uprising against the South Korean government and unify the Korean Peninsula under the Kim regime. This section also uses diagrams and charts to highligh