Posted on 01/10/2011 6:13:08 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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Kim Jong-eun's Intensifying Purge of N. Korean Military
Lee Myung-sung
2011-01-10
As New Year starts, N. Korean military is in the middle of inexplicable personnel reassignment and purge drive
Our source inside N. Korea reported on Jan. 8 that the number of inmates is suddenly swelling at (Jang-hyun-dong) Military Prison. It is under the control of Defense Ministry and located at Jang-huyn-dong Valley, Kimchaek City, North Hamkyung Province. It is right below Machon-ryong Pass. Lately many of (incoming) inmates are former generals purged by Kim Jong-eun.
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The source said that common soldiers and company (mid-level) officers used to make up most of incoming inmates, but in New Year, former generals from Defense Ministry, General Bureau of Military Commissars, and General Staffs, are joining the ranks, along with managers from hard-cash earning enterprises. The charges against them are said to be dubious. According to prison officials, either they are not pleased about Kim Jong-eun's succession or not fully supportive. They are ordered to undergo hard labor and strong reeducation in order to be ideologically recharged.
The source also mentioned that high ranking officers are being inexplicably dismissed and reassigned at the headquarter of light infantry division stationed at Suwon-dong, Kimchaek City, adding that there is atmosphere of abject fear about Kim Jong-eun's purge drive inside N. Korean Military.
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Does this make a military coup more or less likely?
I guess that means SK is safe for a short while, at least until the new guys get comfy.
there is atmosphere of abject fear about Kim Jong-eun’s purge drive inside N. Korean Military.
That’s the way to make friends alright.
This could get interesting.
N. Korean military is in the middle of inexplicable personnel reassignment and purge drive.
I don’t know if anyone here has read The Tom Clancy Book Red Storm Rising,But that was part of the Russian disinformation program as well as military intimidation program to encourage their troops to fight harder.
I wonder if we may be seeing a prelude to a renewal of warfare on the Korean Peninsula.
I’ve seen a number of analyses to the effect that it’s been the Generals who have historically exerted a calming influence on the ambitions of the Kim dynasty...
If so, this purge of the top ranks (replacing the Old Guard with younger, presumably more loyal to the Kims, Generals) may not be a particularly good omen.....
Smart move.
Get rid of all the guys that know how to use your military and keep you in good health..............
Probably reckless, too.
” Probably reckless, too. “
‘Malleable’ and ‘amenable’ were words that came to mind — *after* I hit “POST”...... ;)
Look at how well it worked for Stalin.
If you’re in power in a tyrannical police state, you can be a windshield one day, the bug on a windshield the next.
“Get rid of all the guys that know how to use your military and keep you in good health”
More likely, they are simply shameless suckups.
His actual name is Kim Jong-duh!
Haha. I feel not one bit sorry for the poor Generals. They have been the “chief water carriers” for Kim Jong-eun’s crazy daddy for years and they have been eating caviar while the rest of the population starved.
This is just like an inter-nacine fight within a Mafia family where the “mid-level thugs” always, covet the power of the Don.
I pray they all kill each other in a circular firing squad.
If I was Kim Jong-eun, I would keep the Gulf Stream IV fueled and constantly ready for a quick exit. Some Nork
General might just think he has the wherewitha, and one day decides to put a cap in the heads of those crazy Jongs.
I would not assume this means SK is safe in the short term. According to the Chosun Ilbo article TLR posted over the weekend, it looks like Jang Sun-taek’s faction may be part of this targeted purge. I seriously doubt Jang (widely considered to be the #2 guy in the DPRK until Jong-un came on the scene) is going to go quietly.
This purge may very well invite (as AU72 suggested) a coup attempt (and serious one at that if led by Jang). A serious leadership struggle could lead the Kims to make a decision that the only way to preserve the regime is an external crisis.
At this stage, it won’t take much of a provocation to set the ROK off. A general resumption of hostilities (or even a “limited war”) on the peninsula could serve as that crisis.
If a purge goes smoothely, then I would agree that it may be pretty quiet in the short term while the new “young” generals loyal to Kim Jong-un solidify their positions. But if the stability of the regime becomes an issue, I believe it makes renewed hositilies more, not less, likely.
Good points.
I keep forgetting NK isn’t even halfway normal.
If another ‘incident’ was ginned up into a wider clash it would be instigated by Kim’s circle rather than the military who knows how bad it could go for them. And maybe that’s part of il-Jong’s calculation.
WHY I getting feeling that this going end up like end of Kill Bill Vol 1 when Chia Pet finally kick it
I get Lucy Liu head for that reset LOL!
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