You’d think that the perils of responding to public opinion polls in North Korea would be obvious enough already.

Open News is reporting that discontent with the “feudal” succession of Kim Jong-Eun is so great that people are even expressing their dissent publicly, with the presumed exceptions of the anjeonbu and bowibu. These agencies are now so concerned about the spread of dissent that they’re adopting an unusual method to reveal the heretics:

“After the meeting of party representatives, public sentiment of North Korean citizens is low. The National Security Agency and party institutions have even ordered companies, village offices and the People’s Committee to hold public-opinion polls in order to capture impure elements and to find out citizens’ tendencies towards the succession,” delivered the source from Jagang-do frontier, North Korea, on October 4th. [Open News]

Yes, I know, we can’t verify any of this, but we’ve seen plenty of other reports of similar substance now.