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N. Korea: Kim Jong-il's Brother 'Under House Arrest in Pyongyang'
Chosun Ilbo ^
| 07/01/11
Posted on 06/30/2011 6:29:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il's Brother 'Under House Arrest in Pyongyang'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's half-brother Pyong-il, the North's perpetual ambassador to Poland, is rumored to have been under house arrest since he arrived in Pyongyang in May.
A source familiar with the North's internal affairs on Thursday said Kim Pyong-il is under house arrest because Kim Jong-il's son and heir Jong-un and his followers are maneuvering to hold him in check. "Anyone who is believed to pose an obstacle to Kim Jong-un's succession, even members of his own family, is subject to elimination," the source added.
Experts say Kim Jong-un is deliberately trying to look like his grandfather Kim Il-sung to take advantage of nostalgia for the late regime founder, but Kim Pyong-il looks more like Kim Il-sung and is therefore regarded as a threat.
Since Kim Jong-il beat him to the succession in the 1960s and 70s, Kim Pyong-il has spent 23 years overseas, beginning with the ambassadorship in Hungary in 1988. He then became envoy to Bulgaria and Finland and has been in Poland since 1998. He has gone back to Pyongyang only a few times since Kim Il-sung died in July 1994.
This time observers speculate that he will spend some time in Pyongyang because his mother Kim Song-ae (87) is dying. But others speculate that he will go back to Poland in August after observing the anniversary of his father's death on July 8.
englishnews@chosun.com / Jul. 01, 2011 09:04 KST
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kimjongeun; kimpyongil; nkorea; succession
Piecing together information from the article, the current intel on Pyongil seems that he is locked up in a house where his mother lives and will be allowed to go back to his post in Poland after she dies or maybe even before that.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
06/30/2011 6:30:03 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Medieval country, medieval rulers, and maybe armed with nuclear weapons. Scary.
To: JoeDetweiler
`So Ronery` runs in the family
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posted on
06/30/2011 6:48:17 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Pyong-il has been exposed to the outside(capitalist) world, so he we will be held under quarantine until House Kim is satisfied that he is not infected with Western ideas. This is Stalinist SOP. This is one of the reasons the Soviets locked up their own POW’s after the end of WWII. Uncle Joe considered them to be a political liability so he accused them being traders and cowards, thus locking them away.
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:10:54 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
To: JoeDetweiler
And Iran is only a couple of years in advance of N. Korea.
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:15:22 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I can’t imagine him going anywhere until Kim Jong-Il is proclaimed has the head of the country. Anything less and, supposedly, the ambassador could foment dissatisfaction.
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:17:09 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: TigerLikesRooster
His mother must be quite old
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:38:43 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Experts say Kim Jong-un is deliberately trying to look like his grandfather Kim Il-sung to take advantage of nostalgia for the late regime founder, but Kim Pyong-il looks more like Kim Il-sung and is therefore regarded as a threat.A nation run by retards.
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:45:44 PM PDT
by
Junior_G
(Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
To: oyez
Yes, he saw a lot: the fall of Berlin Wall, execution of Ceausescu couple in Romania, the collapse of Soviet Union, and emergence of former East European countries as new democratic countries. Especially Poland. His children grew up in E. Europe, too.
Kim Jong-eun is very paranoid now, which put even a currently marginal figure like Pyong-il in danger.
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:47:15 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Junior_G
Goes to show how little legitimacy Jong-eun has.
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posted on
06/30/2011 7:49:12 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
That is really sad. Apparently, poor Pyong-il has a terminally infectious disease. All the penicillin in the world can't help him now.
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:11:02 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
To: Junior_G
Paranoid retards at that.
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:12:33 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Indeed.
I don’t expect that the PRK army generals are much impressed with Jong-eun. To say the least. If not Jong-eun, then whom? The doddering Pyong-il? If him, then whom afterward?
Jong-eun fancies that he has a subtle mind. His upbringing is unlikely to have made him aware of his own limitations. The Generals don’t want a North Korean Caligula.
Be some bloodshed after Jong-il is gone.
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:57:56 PM PDT
by
Iris7
("Do not live lies!" ...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I see a fatal paper cut in this guy’s future...
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:14:25 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Iris7
I read that the AP is opening a full time news bureau in Pyongyang. It will be interesting to see what kind of filtered mush they file for the rest of the world.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Man I thought my sibling rivelry with my brother is something else LOL!
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posted on
07/01/2011 10:56:53 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:41:07 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:41:19 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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