FReeper Gets Internal N. Korea Documents via FNN; Concern Now Is Over Public-Order Collapse (Hot!)

Fuji TV Network from Sankei Shimbun from Internal DPRK Sources (in Japanese) ^ | 6 February 2003 | AmericanInTokyo

[AmericanInTokyo]

[Sensitive Documents From North Korea the Japanese Recently Obtained]

As a service to Free Republic (and the cause of Truth, Freedom, and National Security) it is my pleasure to synopsize-translate-comment, link to the original report, and pass on to you a quite interesting report today from Tokyo, Japan. This comes through the services of Fuji Television (FNN News). It has to do with internal Communist Korean Worker's Party government documents smuggled out of North Korea which seem to show an increasing level of internal concern and nervous tension over a break up of public order (i.e. 'loss of control') and decline in socialist thought-control over average North Koreans.

This may explain exactly why Kim Jong-il appears to be acting uncharacteristically bold these days, and that brinksman North Korea seems intent to "go for broke" as perhaps there seems to be few options left for the cruel despots clinging to state-terror power.

Please read on, below (from the original Japanese-languge web report).

[AnnaZ]

WOW! And again, WOW!

[Newbomb Turk]

Now if we can just beam MTV at them 24/7, we can accelerate the total demise of their society. Bwa ha ha ha haaaaa!!!

I was thinking we should bomb them with Playboy and cold Budweiser.

[Southack]

"As a result, I respectfully dismiss this as 'disinformation', as you may have suggested."

Sorry, I was trying to say that whether this new document is real OR NOT, it still fits in with the Communist short-term goal of appearing very desperate/crazy.

It may very well be real, I have no way of confirming nor denying that fact, but the document works towards the North Koreans' short-term goal regardless.

With that knowlege in mind, this document may very well have been leaked by the DPRK security police themselves, even if it is true (something rather rare for them).

[lodwick]

Were I eating dirt to exist, a bit of porn would probably seem like just the right ticket to punch before dying.

[DoughtyOne]

I think the South will do itself great harm if it send bucks to the North. Let them colapse on their own.

Radio propaganda comes to mind. The North needs to hear some.

[Constitution Day]

Holy kimchee! Have you seen this?

[Libertina]

BTTT Excellece in FReepership award to YOU! Thanks AmericanInTokyo! What an interesting, but not surprising report. Those unfortunate people...
they are getting their hands on forbidden American movies, tapes, pictures, novels, and bibles, all outlawed by North Korea as a threat to socialist order and Kim Jong-il's iron control.
Funny, her forbids "his" people what he relishes himself. Typical despot. It's good about the Bibles though. I hope WE will liberate them soon. No thanks to appeaser JImmy Carter who propped them up. Wonder if Madeline Albright will want to go over for another FEAST, while the citizens STARVE!
FRreepers Rock!

[Humidston]

Bump for a great scoop, AIT!!

[Steel Wolf]

NK refugee comments about ordinary soldiers having lost discipline, i.e., acting like thieves, indicates that the rot has spread from the top to the ranks.

An inherent problem of running a corrupt state, is that corruption has to be restricted to very limited number of people. This is for two reasons:

- A widely corrupt state is an ineffecient one, and the damage expands geometrically every time it drops a level. There is a huge difference between a few people skimming some off the top and everyone and their brother taking a cut. Once people realize that their supervisors are corrupt, and they can get in the act, they will. Anyone with anything to offer will start to cut deals.

- A widely corrupt state is breeds intrigue, deception, and paranoia. People who risk their lives to cut deals will make sure that their tracks are covered, and that the books are well cooked. Every time that information changes hands, it may change substantially, to reflect the needs of whoever is passing it. This means that high level officials have no reassurance that they know what the real situation is, or who they can really trust. The real economy and centers of power exist off-line; the official line is an obstacle, not to be used except as required.

As the corrupt leaders of North Korea have sown, so shall they reap; a nation rotten to the core, with schemers, liars, and opportunists at every level.

[duk]

If NK goes ballistic because they don't get money and concessions......
I will go ballistic if the U.S. gives NK money and concessions!
North Korea is in the final throws of death, for the sake of the common NK citizen let it be quick and sure. America will with great kindness pick up the pieces if they know the new leadership is intent on righteousness.

[myself6]

I agree with you on this. Whether this is true or not is not something that I can not ascertain, but it does fit with their current strategery. How many documents of this obviously sensitive nature "escaped" from NK? Why now?

I do not think that it is prudent to hit the ground running in an assumed direction. I do not think its wise to simply dismiss the possibility of this being NK propaganda.

AIT has done a wonderful job of getting this info to FR before it is ANYWHERE in the US media or in English even.

Thank you AIT.

Lets just not make the mistake of overlooking possibilities and making faulty assumptions.

[putupon]

BUMP for a great scoop!!! FreeRepublic rules the information age.

[FreeAtlanta]

The Baath Party, which rules Iraq, is actually the Baath Socialist Party... but for some reason, the media rarely mentions that... -

and, they never fail to mention the notorius "Republican" guard. It is rather blatent and sickening. Sort of like Ted Dansen's little jab about Republicans in is sorry excuse for a tv show.

[myself6]

OOPS...

It should have read. "..is not something that i can ascertain.."

AND

"..."escaped" from NK in the past?"

Sorry for the 4th grade grammer.

[merak]

Something like 70% of the people in N. Korea appear to be on the outs with the party generally. Any chance of arming that 70%?

Basically, instead of dropping leaflets and beaming propaganda at the place, is there any reason we couldn't be dropping cheap rifles and ammo, possibly some of the old Mosins which the Russians have stored in depots along with 7.62x54 ammo? I should think that a couple of hundred thousand of those in the hands of that 70% might cause the beloved leader and his A$$#ole crew a bit of consternation there...

[Steel Wolf]

Sorry, I was trying to say that whether this new document is real OR NOT, it still fits in with the Communist short-term goal of appearing very desperate/crazy

Appearing desperate and crazy is a national policy of North Korea that they have used for decades. It's not a very hard sell, either. I don't imagine that they are any more crazy than usual. They may well be more desperate, but that is only because North Korea has no effective patron state, no way to sustain its operations independently, and a very powerful enemy that it has been irritating for almost 60 years.

You're right in that it is mostly an act; the North Korean leaders are calculating and methodical, often incompetently so. They are also walking into a trap.

Bush's point at the U.N., to be made sometime this summer, will be that if North Korea is desperate, it is their own doing. All they have to do is get in line with the international community, blah blah blah, and we'd help them out. He'll throw cash, food and oil on the table, and he'll ask for some concessions that will sound rather bland and appeasing. The right will gasp in horror, the left will cheer, and the North Koreans will accuse us of being despotic aggressors, refuse entirely, and storm out.

Cue the U.N. sanctions, cue the USN blockade. Past that, it's war or collapse for North Korea.

[jennyp]

I am sure people will want to hit the link above. Please don't be discouraged in working your way through the Japanese. Unless there is a way to archive the Japanese version from the web ASAP, it may be difficult to access this story again.

What a find! I've cached the page here, along with your translation. (The N. Korea article is the first one in the list. Click on [cached] at the bottom of the summary paragraph.)

[Thud]

Excellent comments.

[Steel Wolf]

The North Koreans are a very heavily armed group, overall. Aside from the military, there are several 'reserve' and 'militia' organizations, numbering in the millions.

(The Red Guards Militia, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, and the Red Youth Guards, etc.)

Most of the militia units are local, and have light machine guns, grenades, anti-aircraft guns, etc. Military training is extremely common, usually on Sundays. A town will hold their own local training, starting at adolescence with the Red Youth Guards)

[NormsRevenge]

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