Kim Jong-eun's Intensifying Purge of N. Korean Military (jail being filled with generals)

Free North Korea Radio ^ | 01/10/11 | Lee Myung-sung

[jhpigott]

Most likely correct.

But you never know how many DPRK generals have had too much of the kool-aid. Seoul is, after all, only 25-30 miles south of the DMZ . . .

[AU72]

I remember noticing that the Central Committee is top heavy with aging generals who go back to the glory days of 1950.

[AdmSmith]

They have not yet updated the KCNA site http://kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm the latest is still Jan 7.

the same for the pictures (Korean) http://kns-photo.com/

and the latest here (Korean) http://kcna.co.jp/today-rodong/rodong.htm is from Dec 27.

Why?

[jhpigott]

1950s . . . that’s a long time to be imbibing kool-aid

FYI - Galrahn over at Information Dissemination picking up on the N. Korea purge story -

Galrahn Raymond Pritchett
Where is the western expert analysis of the purge of North Korean military and political leadership? http://tinyurl.com/5uddtjj
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http://twitter.com/#!/Galrahn

[jhpigott]

Not from the main KNCA page, but I did find this today (DPRK seems to be upset about some upcoming ROK exercises)-

S. Korea to Stage Field Tactical Military Exercises
http://175.45.179.68/eng/t_news.php?uuu=today&year=2011&month=1&day=10&kk=143&lang=eng

This lack of updates from the DPRK mouthpiece, in light of the articles TLR has tracked down does make me wonder if there is a changing of the guard/power struggle taking place.

[dfwgator]

Look at how well it worked for Stalin.

Part of the reason for "The Winter War" against Finland, nothing better than to have a war to keep potentially plotting generals occupied.

[AdmSmith]

Yes, it seems that there is a disturbance in the chain of command for the propaganda units.

[AdmSmith]

Is this http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/2011/main-gisa.php?Rel_key=24843&keyname=Rel_key&tblname=tblurigisa the first time that an official North Korean site is discussing a hacked page?

[jhpigott]

Tiger - looks like an english version of the story you posted from Chosun Ilbo today just came out

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/01/10/2011011000554.html

Lot’s of the same info, but here a quote of some interest -

“A former senior North Korean official who defected to the South said, “Kim Jong-il may be trying to hand over power to his son quickly, but nothing is going on as intended.”

Most disturbing news out of the DPRK in a while...

[GeronL]

That could be very bad.

[TigerLikesRooster]

There have been on-going Internet war between N. Korea's uriminjokkiri site and S. Korea's dcinside.com. The latter originally started as a site for digital camera enthusiast to post pictures, but morphed into all-purpose site mostly populated by young kids. Some of those kids hacked into uriminjokkiri site and posted some highly offensive poem at the user post board. It was a 12-line poem which at first glance appear to praise Kim family(or NK regime.) However, if you assemble first letter of each line, it is said to become a sentence, “Kim Jong-il is a bastard and Kim Jong-eun is a SOB.” The title was “The Truth of First Letters.” The NK site is said to have retaliated by mounting DDos attack on the SK site. Enraged, SK kids reciprocated by hacking into the NK site and replaced its homepage with the one parodying NK, hacked its Twitter account and left anti-North messages, and hacked into its Youtube account and posted an equally damning anti-Kim video about Kim junior’s birthday.

[TigerLikesRooster]

The NK site was down for a day or two, and is said to have come back, issuing warning to hackers. NK got spanked hard by SK kids so far. How would NK respond? We will see.

By the way, another development about the poem which started it all. After it was posted, NK security agents were dispatched to NK's cyber agitation unit in Shenyang, China, and they are investigating people working there. The unit is responsible for running the said NK site.

[rdl6989]

I agree completely! Lil’ Kim is in for a rude awakening.

[AdmSmith]

thanks

[Daffynition]

Not sure if this WaPo article deserves its own thread: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-kim-jong-eun-a-choreographed-rise/2012/01/07/gIQAizmPhP_story.html?hpid=z5

I especially like this excerpt: **Kim Jong Eun, according to propaganda described in a recent Chinese magazine article, learned to drive at age 3. By 8, he could safely maneuver dirt roads at 75 mph. As a teenager, he mastered four foreign languages. He is now learning three more.**

Reminds me of home,and waxing all nostalgic...I just remembered that we did the same thing here, we took a community organizer who has never worn a uniform and made him Commander-in-Chief; a guy who has never led anything more than an ACORN demonstration and made him the leader of this country.