Posted on 06/14/2004 5:05:29 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean Security Believes Ryongchon Explosion an Assassination Attempt(Cellphones now banned)
Ping!
This should surprise no one. Don't you remember the immediate news blackout afterward?
Ping!
Better luck next time, whoever.
I'm so shocked. Not.
I simply do not believe this story. It's probably being promulgated by Jong himself.
I don't either.
Recall recent reports of Syrian chem/bio technicians killed in the blast.
I think the assassination angle is a smokescreen to hide the WMD story.
"The third report on the assassination angel..."
It's too bad it wasn't an assassination Angel, N Korea would be much better off if it had been successful. If someone does get him, assassination angel would be a perfect description.
That's what I am thinking as well. This is definitely a smoke screen.
I feel as you do.
Thanks for the ping, Tiger
Also pretty amazing that the North Koreans allegedly find the remains of the detonator in a blast that obliterated multi-ton rail cars. Better yet, watch the DPRK "trace" the phone to the U.S. or South Korea. If this story has any official backing, it will likely evolve into another U.S.-led conspiracy against the "Great Leader."
In the gulag known as North Korea, carrying out this sort of plot would have required extensive planning, coordination, and bribery, to access explosives, build detonators, place the bomb on the tracks, and time it so Kim's train is passing by when it explodes. The odds of such a plan reaching fruition are almost nil; the DPRK is a nation of informants, and you never know who might pass your name to the authorities.
One more thing: if Kim Jong-il had the slightest inclination that someone was trying to kill him, we would be getting word of wholesale arrests and "special" security measures around Pyongyang. So far, that hasn't happened.
The "assassination plot" is a convenient smoke screen to throw everyone off the trail of those Syrian technicians, and the train's mysterious cargo. Their presence--and that cargo--is the real story, not this alleged assassination plot. And, for what it's worth, no credible intelligence organization is putting nay stock in the assassination angle....
But a couple of threads back you advanced what I thought was a novel and brilliant theory that this assassination attempt may have been done by one of Kim Jong-il's sons.
I think this would be the perfect opportunity for you to share that theory with us again. Which son, why would he do it, and what power did he wield that could aid him in such an attempt?
--Boot Hill
Why couldn't they both be true?
--Boot Hill
LOL, would you care to share with us just which "credible intelligence organizations" are sharing their most intimate secrets with you?
--Boot Hill
Yes!
..........where the train enters the tunnel and all the passengers are gassed and die, due to the negligence of the railroad workers, who in turn were so beaten down by the 'Collectivist' society that no one cared about their jobs anymore.........resulting in the devastating accident.
JMHO
Moreover, if it was an assassination plot that required "extensive planning, coordination, and bribery, to access explosive, build detonators and place the bomb on the tracks", wouldn't there also have been arrangements to explode the bomb at the proper moment -- rather than three hours too late?
We probably won't see him until the next Ground Hog Day.
Yeah, he will turn into a ground hog by then.:)
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