Yes, he is alive. This is a picture taken on May 22, 2004
Posted on 05/25/2004 7:29:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean Security Believes Ryongchon Explosion an Assassination Attempt
According to a source, North Korea's State Safety & Security Agency concluded that the massive explosion that occurred in the North Korean city of Ryongchon on April 22 had been conspired by anti-North Korean government forces to harm North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. A North Korean official who was recently on his business trip to China said, “The North Korean National Security Agency has investigated the incident since it took place and concluded that rebellious forces had plotted the explosions targeting the exclusive train of Kim Jong-il. The security agency, in particular, gained evidence that cell phones had been used in triggering the explosion and reported to the North Korean leader that the use of cell phones should be banned for the sake of the leader’s safety, the official said.
Accordingly, it was learned that North Korea prohibited the use of cell phones across the nation on May 19.
An officer working with a North Korean border guard unit, which is in charge of guarding the border area between the North and China, said in a phone call with this writer that the use of cell phones was banned in Pyongyang first on May 19, and then prohibited in other regions on May 20.
A North Korea defector who crossed the border a few days ago said, “It doesn’t seem to be a temporary measure, because even handsets have been conscripted following the cell phone use ban.” “The Postal Service, which manages the cell phone business, has unilaterally conscripted handsets without offering any compensations. It's a typical example of a dictatorial state,” the defector pointed out.
North Korea began to use European-type GSM phones in August 2002 and started cell phone service in Najin and Sunbong, the North Korean special economic areas, starting November that year. However, in areas bordering China, an increasing number of North Korean people have already used cell phones with handsets made in China since the end of 1990s.
D*mn! I am really sorry that they missed.
Interesting.
How many cell phones can there be in North Korea - three?
Ping
Assasination attempt by whom?
i wonder what cell phones taste like
I am not sure. However, there are some people who use cellphones. Far more than just three.:)
Right, they did a big round up of all the cell phones and didn't compensate either of the owners.
Most people in the PRK probably have a regular telephone but no phone line to their house.
They are vague about it, aren't they?
This is very interesting....could there be a faction in the military who want to reach out to the west.
Or hurry up the sneak attack ;)
You might find this interesting.
I'm sure we've been working that angle ever since Bush took over.
There is hope for the North Koreans.
If the station manager and his underlings survived the blast their wishing they hadn't.
They actually all have loudspeakers in their home, and the authorities can give them instructions over the system.
Very Good Catch!
"Can you hear me now?"
Are we sure they did? Has 'Dear Leader' been seen in public since the explosion?
If Dear Leader becomes convinced that cell phones were part of plot against him expect to see cell phone users in reeducation camps soon.
Can a cellphone be used to detonate an explosive if there are no cellsites nearby? One cellphone cannot call another cellphone directly, it must go through a cellsite, and router.
Yes, he is alive. This is a picture taken on May 22, 2004
Perhaps it was just coincedental that Syrian {WMD?}engineers were killed and wounded in the blast.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131329/posts
Who's next in line if the "Dear Leader" suddenly goes to join the choir infernal? Has he been grooming an heir as his father groomed him? And more importantly, does the heir apparent have a cell phone?
They wouldn't have to "conscript" or confiscate the handsets, just turn off the towers. Cell phones always communicate via the a near by tower. Two cell phones a block away won't communicate if there is no tower. (How could they bill you?)
If this news is indeed true, dead Syrians and the destruction of their cargoes could have been the consolation prizes of sorts. Or was it planned as a two-for-one deal?:)
Ryongchon is pretty close to China. In this border area, you can use a Chinese cell phone, which uses towers in China across the border. N. Koreans cannot turn off Chinese towers. An important fact to be noted.
Now this brings up another thought. If the killers in Iraq are using cell phones to trigger roadside bombs, why don't we commandeer the cell phone system and shut down the towers along the routes when we are moving?
buffing nails ...
He also said that Chungguk may be involved, if it were indeed a termination plot (even that is still unconfirmed). They may have aligned with disgruntled DPRK forces within. But hard to say.
There is a move to install Kim Jong-il's second son, Kim Jong-chol, as the successor while brushing aside the first son, Kim Jong-nam. Kim Jong-nam has not been allowed to return home for quite a while.
Exactly my thoughts.
So they got too near a gas pump, or what. How do cell phones work without towers, and why bother banning the phones when you can just turn off the service?
That is the persistent rumor coming out of China. If true, Chia Head is being squeezed by both America and China, that is, both from the South and the North. That is the untenable position for Chia Head.
Please read my reply #32. I think it would answer your question.
AIT who is Chungguk?
Cell phones don't kill people ... people do.
Where is Kim Jong-nam, and does he dress like the UPS man too?
He is rumored to be in China. He does not dress like his dad. However, he is just as fat and butt ugly, only younger.:)
Chungguk = Zhonguo = China
Why is he on the "outs" with his father?
(I guess this is impossible to truly know?)
Whaddaya think -- Mossad, trying to keep the A-bomb away from Syria and the rest of the Arab Middle East in the whole Lybian Hollow Mountain plot?
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