Posted on 09/14/2007 1:23:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Frequent sabotages since 2000... N. Korean authorities “should crush activities of anti-party element”
[2007-09-12 14:34]
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It is true that high voltage transmission towers were destroyed which relay electricity from S. Hamkyong Province to Yanggang Province in June, 2003, causing blackout in the entire Yanggang Province. The power outage even stopped the operation of weapon's plants such as Samjiyon Precision Machinery Factory. It also stopped the ventilation fan at Youth Mine in Hyesan, which had been repaired and was due to be operational again.
Frequent transmission tower sabotages since 2000
According to those who worked at (N. Korea's) electric power industry at the time, such sabotages usually occurred between May and August, during Monsoon and Typhoon season.
During the period of storms, flash floods, and heavy winds in northern part of Korean Peninsula, saboteurs loosened screws from the transmission towers located in the remote mountain region where there is virtually no human traffic, and disappeared. Then, the towers usually collapsed after a few days of heavy rain and strong wind.
The fact that N. Korean authorities cite this case during their lectures on high officials implies that such incidents inflicted serious damage. .
Obviously, they would rarely tell such news to general public. If people know about it, it could generate a shock wave in general public, leading to internal turmoil.
Since the collapse of transmission towers even stopped weapon's industry, security and police apparatus in S. Hamkyong Province where the towers were located had been turned upside down. The authorities started a massive manhunt to catch the culprits, but we have heard no news of their arrest so far.
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[Park Young-chol (N. Korean Defector: Arrived in 2006)]
Ping!
At first when I read this I thought that the NK government destroyed them because somebody figured out how to use broadband over power lines. It wouldn’t surprise me that they would destroy their own infrastructure to prevent people from talking over their electrical distribution system.
Could this simply be a case of the Commies blaming everything bad that happens on counter-revolutionary elements? Maybe the towers were of shoddy construction and just fell down on their own. Maybe the towers did not fall down and all and the reason there is no electricity is because nobody is generating electricity.
They needed more prison labor
Maybe a foreign operative might go ashore, and cause failures that the government might not be able to hide from the people, and help topple this corrupt regime...
Youth mine?
The DPRK security service is probably searching for subversive elements in all the wrong places. Well, as long as they are out chasing imagined saboteurs, they are not tormenting the oppressed people of North Korea, the poor wretches.
Our transmission towers are just as vulnerable.
Where was Senator Wellstone? Sounds like his bunch.
Few remember that his rise to fame was because of protests over new transmission lines in Minnesota, and many towers were sabotaged in this manner.
Not that I’m saying he did it, but his fellow travelers did.
Wasn’t there a sabotage-by-bolt-removal attempt by some left-wing greenies in the Pacific Northwest a few years ago?
Question I didn’t know they have tranmission tower in North KOrea
When they replace them, they should install automatic transmission towers for the shiftless bureaucrats
A youth mine without ventilation.
lol
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