A PHONE smuggled out of North Korea reveals just how far Kim Jong-un’s regime goes to control citizens.

The seemingly ordinary device even takes screenshots, tracking and recording the user’s every move, a BBC investigation has revealed.

The phone runs software that takes a screenshot every five minutes, saving it in a hidden folder only authorities can access.

This allows North Korea’s notorious youth crackdown squads to spy on users and punish anyone caught searching banned content or criticising the regime.

The phone also blocks the user from typing certain South Korean terms - including “South Korea” itself, the BBC found.

The word for South Korea , "Nampan" is automatically edited to 'puppet state' - the North Korean government's term for South Korea .

The South Korean w

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