North Korea has intensified efforts to monitor its citizens by enforcing restrictive laws designed to limit access to outside information and maintain strict ideological oversight over the population, while also revising existing laws with the goal of encouraging citizens to report crimes and suspicious activities.

The Mass Reporting Act is one of the key tools that the regime has used to achieve this, and the full text of revisions to the law, revealed late last year, shows that the state has imposed new demands on regular citizens and state institutions to report a broad range of criminal