A PHONE smuggled out of North Korea exposes the chilling extent of Kim Jong-un’s regime's control over its people.

At first glance, the device seems ordinary - but it takes continuous screenshots, tracking and recording the user’s every move, a BBC investigation found.

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 device also blocks the user from typing certain South Korean terms - including “South Korea” itself, the BBC revealed.

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

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