Posted on 06/24/2009 12:20:55 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
This link is just to the Japanese report, but it is emerging that since March a) Kim Jong Un, the 26-year-old heir apparant/son of Kim Jong il, has essentially been given administrative control of the North Korean Secret Police (국가안전보위부); b) that this also soon puts him in de-facto control of the 10,000 man strong border forces which will be put under control of the DPRK Secret Police next month. Further, Dong-A Ilbo daily newspaper in South Korea (from which the JIJI Japanese report (link) is based) says for all intents and purposes, c) the fates and current handling of the 2 captured liberal American journalists (Lee and Ling from Al Gore's outfit in San Francisco) are directly in the hands of heir apparant Kim Jong Un.
Developing.....
Ping!
Thank you for the update and ping American in Tokyo.
One can only hope he is not "having his way with them".
"Like father (AND grandfather) like son", you have to say, though. Lots of Japanese and South Koreans also in DPRK concentration camps FOR YEARS ON END ALREADY would likely agree.
Prayers up for both ladies that they soon can come home.
I still favor a SpecOps raid to free them .
There’s got to be a way to do a Jessica Lynch .
Grab their ship and hold it hostage? Something ....
I would not expect it of Al Gore. He is no different than the American cameramen who left those two up there high and dry. Chivalry and sacrifice are long dead, at least within the decrepit bowels of male American Liberalism.
I put it here if that is OK: http://tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=99115&findnew#new
They're Greenie Commies. They are feeling right at home.
yitbos
Bad move! Blood born disease is easily stamped out. Just ask Uday and Qusay Hussein. The USA also has a history of stamping out emperor worship in Asia.
The Kim family just guaranteed the end of their line.
God doesn't like being usurped by his uppity creatures.
Man that would rock to rule a country with an iron fist. On the other hand he’s ugly. On the other other hand the Eastern European sex slaves probably make him feel better about it.
it is dishonorable for this scum to have kidnapped
a couple of American women and be getting away with it.
It reminds me of the seizure of the USS Pueblo , wherein again
we did nothing but sit on our hands .
We should have blown Pyongyang off the map for that one too .
We have NEVER made them fear us . It’s time they find out who their master is .
Again , is is a shame that we do do not make them seriously pay for every such infraction against us . Regardless of whether the women are of whatever political leanings .
They are Americans . Go get them .
You can't be referring to The People's Paradise can you?
Yes, but to be precise, Kim Jong il is not yet out of power (although ill), he has merely ceded this administrative role of being in charge of the secret police to his third son—according to the two reports (S. Korea/Japan). The old buzzard has not croaked yet and of course sonny boy, nor Jang Su Taek who runs him, would plug him or spice up his steaks with secret sauce at this time.
I am still somewhat of the opinion they themselves, despite warnings in an effort to get a good “scoop” for Fat Al Gore’s network, went into North Korean territory at that river—knowing or maybe not knowing the horrific risk. At any rate, they certainly have the “scoop” of their lives now. This is real investigative journalism. And here is the catch. If they are still in a luxury Pyongyang Hotel as negotiating bait being held on to, OK (for the time being), but if they actually now went into the camps, they are good as dead and will not be coming home alive, because those camps (internally) are the heighth of internal security; they will see the conditions there, and as journalists they would come out and write about it. North Korea CAN NOT HAVE THAT. My guess? If they are suffering the latter, that’s it. It is over. In a few months or years there will be a short message that they have died in an accident with no bodies recovered. North Korea did this over and over and over, and Sonny Boy taking over would do just the same. Unless we or someone somehow pulverizes the shit out of the DPRK and has regime change, where those two are miraculously spirited out of there.
great report , thanks !
Please recall how the Pueblo was also seized under very marginal , yet possible , definitions of sea boundaries .
Yet they got away with it . That set the tone for the future and that tone has never changed . It needs to change . It is time for this regime to get slapped thru the floor .
They and a few others. If only we had the leadership at the top !
I do not think it is entirely impossible that those women can be found and freed .Nothing is impossible for our best operators . We have no idea what assets can be employed.
Some of you older Freepers may remember the times when we used to think that being an American meant that the world had to treat you fairly.
Remember the old phrase, “You can’t do that to me, I’m an American.”? We actually thought it meant something. Different times.
the world needs to be re-taught that lesson
We need to be lead by warriors , not lawyers
sheesh.....thanks
I am very uneducated ;^)
I like how so many things are called “Dong” in North Korea. Its especially ironic that their two missiles systems are called “No Dong”, and “Type O’Dong”. :)
I suspect all this rage stems from some certain basic inadequacies.....
They are not worth it. They are liberal journalists from The Goron’s network. Would you seriously risk the lives of US soldiers to “free” a couple of journalists?
not any more.
Because once we believed that we were defined as those opposing totalitarian Communism atheism.
That is no longer true.
We are the world's leading moral relativists and economic statists-—at least we are being led by them.
NO moral or economic high ground any more -— not an ounce or inch left.
dong means east/eastern
I don’t know how this is going to be recieved, but I saw a photo of him that was in color, at a different angle, and he’s actually pretty cute.
Nope. I think that’s why constitutional monarchs have always been successful rather than absolute ones.
No one other than God Himself has the right to express his wishes and he does it through the saints.
All monarchs that rule (absolutism) have always had sticky ends.
“The old buzzard has not croaked yet and of course sonny boy, nor Jang Su Taek who runs him, would plug him or spice up his steaks with secret sauce at this time”
Not until they are fully ready to take over. Then he’ll be offed.
I was wonder what going happen to those American journalists now getting bad there in NK
if I were on of those soldiers and I were asked if I would go
on such a mission to free captive American women , I would go.
unfortunately I am not such a soldier .
God bless them all
What about their dreaded new ICBM missle - the Long Dong? LOL.
The following joke was posted on Yahoo yesterday:
Q: Why is Obama going to let the North Korean missile hit Hawaii? A: Because then he can say that THEY destroyed his Birth Certificate! LOL.
Upon posting, comments were made that this was a racist effing joke, that the poster was a racist mother-effer, and that he should get the eff off Yahoo.
I saw no racial component to the joke at all, and it was WAY funnier than David Letterman’s about Sarah Palin’s daughter. What do YOU all think?
I think this joke is way past overkill now and is being posted too much. That’s what I think.
One can only guess at this kid’s psychological state. Fruitcake dictators don’t make the best parents.
bttt
That's why I don't think they have. They are probably being held in a police office building somewhere until their trade value to the US government can be established.
I understand. Thanks for all you do here.
What is crappy is that when the North Koreans moved the USS Pueblo from the port of Wonsan on the East Coast, to the Taeddong River in Pyongyang, this was in 2004 I think (either way, under the Bush Administration), we did NOTHING, and it went through international waters. It is OURS. We could have seized it or at least bombed it. This country is a p*ssy, sometimes, under both Democrat AND Republican Administrations. I guess knee deep in the crap in Iraq at the time was more important.
You are very welcome, Freeper PghBaldy.
“Rescuing” two leftist journalists is a waste of ordnance.
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