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UFD is part of a shadowy group of Central Committee organizations known as the "Third Building". Not much is known about these organizations because South Korean intelligence services have been reluctant to release information out of security concerns. Out of the "Third Building" organizations, UFD
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UFD controls broadcasts that target South Korea. Its methods include psychological warfare through the radio and TV, loudspeakers, leaflets, visual displays, and websites. According to reports, "The United Front Department wages its cyber psychological warfare through some 140 sites with servers
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based in 19 countries. In 2011, North Korean agents posted 27,090 items of propaganda materials against the South, and in 2012 some 41,373". It also maintains a team of
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The United Front Department (UFD) is one of the most longstanding and important departments of the party. It was initially known as the Culture Department (
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UFD often releases statements that are considered to be authoritative comments of the regime. It also fabricates praise of the
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Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Report to Congress
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in Japan, is controlled by the UFD. Other front organizations controlled by the UFD include the
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in both North and South Korea and with overseas Koreans. One of the most powerful of these, the
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United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
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that it attributes to foreigners and then disseminates in North Korean media.
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North Korean entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions
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North Korean governmental agency tasked with relations with South Korea
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Administratively, UFD reports as an agency of the Secretariat of the
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North Korean Branch Bureau / Communist Party of North Korea
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Index

United Front Department
United Front Work Department

North Korea–South Korea relations
Propaganda
front organizations
espionage
Junseung-dong
Moranbong District
Pyongyang
Ri Son-gwon
Central Committee
Chosŏn'gŭl
통일
전선

Hancha
統一
戰線

Revised Romanization
McCune–Reischauer
Politics of North Korea

Constitution
Juche
Songun
Eternal leaders
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Il

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