The Summary of Up-to-date N. Korean Intels

Cho Gab-Je The Investigative Reporter's World ^ | 08/20/04 | Cho Gab-Je

[TigerLikesRooster]

/being my translation

The Summary of Recent N. Korean Intel

1. These days, in N. Korea, people watch in secret S. Korean melodrama such as 'Winter Love Song'(my note: aka Winter Sonata also wildly popular in Japan, original name: Kyo-wool-yon-ga) and 'Autumn Fairy Tale.' Videotapes of these dramas are smuggled from China. N. Korean authorities try to crack down on them. However, many party officials watch them, too. Their efforts have been hardly successful. Once people watch these dramas, they drastically change people's mind.

2. Recently, it is common that N. Korean defectors who came to S. Korea call up with Chinese cell-phones family members in N. Korea(who also have Chinese cell-phones.) (N. Korean) Areas within 30-40km from Sino-N. Korean border, can be reached via cellphones. N. Korean security purchased signal detectors from China and installed them on their Jeeps in order to track down cellphone users. However, it resulted in little success. Again, security agents themselves like to use cellphones. If they use them, they ended up exposing themselves to detection.

3. Current economic situation in N. Korea is deteriorating badly. Capacity utilization of factories and mines is plummeting and street kids are on the rise again. Some are starving to deaths. Authorities started to go after illegal business activities. Price of rice is rocketing. Kim Jong-il is intensifying his 'rule by fear', but it is common perception that it would be far short of shoring up the system in a free fall.

4. In Japanese and S. Korean intelligence communities, a rumor is spreading, which says that Ko Yong-hi, the current wife of Kim Jong-il, is dead. Kim Jong-il have never let her name and her existence known to N. Korean general public. It is a state secret in N. Korea that Kim Jong-il has three sons, Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un, and Kim Jong-chul, born from two different women. As a result, even if Ko Yong-hi is dead, Kim Jong-il can neither publicly announce it nor have a public funeral.

5. There has been reports from Japanese sources that Kim Jong-il's eldest son, Kim Jong-name, is now assumed the role of the Kim Jong-il's successor. However, Korean agencies discounts their credibility. Things turned worse for the Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law, Jang Sung-thaek, who has been under house arrest. He is now undergoing ideological re-education.

6. Karaoke bars are spreading in N. Korea. The regime does not crack down on them unless patrons sing S. Korean (popular) songs. They close down the place if that happens.

7. Kim Jong-il regime deployed Worker-peasant Red Militia(N. Korean militia) at Sino-N. Korean border to stop the flow of N. Korean escapees. They are reported to be more strict than regular military. The regular N. Korean military got hooked onto bribes and look the other way for N. Korean escapees. However, the militia reportedly go by the book so far.

8. Judging from various reports, one has to wonder if the Kim Jong-il regime is in the irrevocable process of collapse. As it stands, S. Korea basically feeds residents of Pyongyang and N. Korean military. If the political climate changes in S. Korea, even this life-line could stop.

/end my translation

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[SevenofNine]

OHHH how sad Mrs Kim Jong 11 is dead

Tiger I thought it just rumor I know it was breast cancer suppose they say

I am very suprise Little Kim didn't hold State funeral for his late wife she is after all Mother of the country
That weird

[Ecliptic]

So, how many years has it been reported that N. Korea is on the verge of collapse?

[GSlob]

Since watching "Winter Sonata" and "Autumn Fairy Tale" is reported to cause people to change their minds, we should immediately acquire a few copies, dub them (pronto!) into moslem languages and use these melodramas extensively in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib interrogations. Who knows, it might work.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

This is intriguing news.

I can't imagine a communist, hereditary monarchy lasting for any great length of time, at least, not from an historical perspective.

It's kind of like what happened to the Caesars, whose genetic stock kept being diminished through incessant inbreeding, eventually leading to the misrule that characterized the regimes of Caligula and Nero.

[DoctorZIn]

This article has been posted to DoctorZin’s New News Blog!

[Antoninus]

Unified, democratic Korea ping!

[The Scourge of Yazid]

You said it, pal!

KIM JONG IL IS NORTH KOREA'S ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: "Whatever happened to the commie 'fro?"

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for the ping.

I will post a link on the Terror files thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1192738/posts

I have suggested that the readers check your threads for the info on N. Korea.

Please check out the above thread and join us, we need to know so much more than we do.

Ruth

[BBell]

I think It started under Clinton, so he shored them up.

[SevenofNine]

Hey I don't know if you guys here in US on History Channel our fav Wo Fat reject LITTLE KIM JONG 11 going be on History profile on that channel this Tuesday start at 9:30pm est

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Thanks Ruth!

I'll be sure to check out that link.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to cable television "Seven", so I won't be able to watch that program.

Personally, I think that channels like A&E and The History Channel are the only worthwhile reasons for getting cable in the first place.

[SevenofNine]

Rack your ping list

I am so there

[Judith Anne]

Please add me to your ping list. I'm interested.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong-il's Mortal Enemy
Winter Sonata
Autumn Fairy Tale

[Khurkris]

"Rack your ping list"

uhhh...what does 'rack' mean?

Thanks 7 of 9.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Beautiful.

I can see why he would want to suppress beauty.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all

Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know

Ode on a Grecian Urn

-John Keats, (1819)

[nw_arizona_granny]

I am sorry if I wasn't clear about the Laura Mansfield show,
she is on Radio, the Jerry Brown program, it is also something America. I get it on the KSL station, from Utah.

Laura does an hour every Sunday night on terrorists and the weeks news on them.

She is very good, she has lived in Egypt and understands so much that I do not. She can also read the language.

You will find her posts on the terror link above, as StillProud2BeFree.

Nope, granny isn't a groupie, I was thankful for the translations that she has shared with us over the months, long before I knew her name or that she was a regular on several radio programs.

I don't have a TV or go to movies, but the one that was posted "Winter Sonata", I would love to see, it looks lovely. Has anyone been able to see it? Is it good.

[AmericanInTokyo]

There will be scenes in there, in Winter Sonata, etc., showing downtown, modern Seoul, South Korea with all the accoutrement of advanced living. North Koreans accustomed to eating tree bark are going to get ideas in their heads, and some of them might be a disposition to get growingly pissed off with Kim Jong il for their miserable lives.