Here is the report (in Japanese today): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/711503.cms
Confirmed that in North Korea, ALL CELL PHONES WERE ORDERED TO BE SURRENDERED TO AUTHORITIES. REPEAT, ALL CELLPHONES ORDERED TO BE SURRENDERED.
FURTHER, CONTACTS WITH FOREIGNERS TO BE LIMITED OR STOPPED.Mandate sent down by the Party last week.
Looks like it could have been a PRC-US plot, or purely PRC or domestic dissidents, to assassinate Kim Jong il.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20040601-00000380-jij-int
It dawned on me that Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-il's eldest son, could be behind Kim Jong-il's assassination attempt. Jong-nam is being pushed aside and steps are taken by N. Korean regime to install his younger brother, Jong-chol, as the successor to Kim Jong-il. With the help of Chinese and Americans, Jong-nam might have used China as his base to launch this operation.
Jong-nam has enough connections inside N. Korean regime to pull something like this. Some reports even claim that the death of party secretary Kim Yong-soon and the hospitalization of Ko Yong-hee were also the work of pro-Kim Jong-nam faction.