Posted on 04/25/2011 3:07:44 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il's Recent Activities Hint at Trouble Ahead
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly visited a building where agencies engaged in military operations against South Korea are clustered and the General Reconnaissance Bureau last month, a source said Sunday.
The so-called Building No. 3 houses the United Front Department and the Workers Party's international affairs department. The General Reconnaissance Bureau, an agency in charge of armed provocations against the South, is believed to have supervised the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan last year.
"Kim Jong-il inspected the areas and encouraged agents" on his visits, a North Korean source said. "It seems highly likely that the regime will provoke again in case its charm offensive falls on deaf ears."
At a meeting in Pyongyang Sunday, a day before the North Korean Army's 79th anniversary, Minister of the People's Armed Forces Kim Yong-chun said, "A tense situation is being created on the Korean Peninsula, where nobody knows when a war could break out." And the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland on Saturday warned that the North will "no longer insist on dialogue," if the South continues to ignore its overtures.
The regime has apparently stepped up sea infiltration drills and artillery training in recent days even as it has been pushing for inter-Korean talks on various issues.
According to the KCNA news agency on Saturday, Kim went on one of his "on-the-spot guidance" tours to the Rajin Shipyard in North Hamgyong Province, which is known to be making chiefly warships and submarines. This was the first time since Kim took power 1998 that the North Korean media has mentioned the shipyard.
Meanwhile, Kim sang the praises of the "military-first” doctrine when he visited the Army Unit 264 in North Hamgyong Province, which supervises the regime's nuclear test site in Punggye-ri and its long-range missile launch pad in Musudan-ri.
South Korean security officials note that Kim had frequently visited military units or certain areas immediately before the regime launched provocations of various kinds. Kim visited North Hwanghae Province about two weeks before the North sank the Cheonan in March last year, and South Hwanghae Province right before it shelled Yeonpyeong Island last November.
He visited various locations in the Hamgyong provinces before the regime conducted its nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and test-launched long-range rockets. All this could mean that his latest visits are a prelude to another provocation.
Kim Jong-il has recently been stressing self-reliance. The KCNA said he spoke about the topic Saturday during a visit to an iron and steel complex in North Hamgyong Province. Traditionally, the regime has emphasized self-reliance and tightened controls whenever it has had difficulty getting overseas aid.
A South Korean security official said the flurry of activity could just be an attempt to pressure the South into resuming dialogue.
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L’il Kim must need more money from the US.
He needs another round of golf where he gets like 18 holes in one ... it’ll help his self esteem. Ya think?
Chia Pet going be very roaney so soon or very dead LOL!
North Korea Freedom Week 2011 Schedule
4/20/2011
Dear Friends:
Next week the 8th Annual North Korea Freedom Week will occur, and I am pleased to provide an update on events being scheduled to promote the freedom, human rights and dignity of the North Korean people.
In Washington, D.C. there will be a North Korea Freedom Fest in Washington, D.C.on April 25 and 26 - a special film festival highlighting three documentaries in which all the directors will be present. This event is being organized by Patty Kim and Chris Sheridan. For tickets, showtimes and trailers, see http://www.westendcinema.com
In Seoul and Busan, during the week there is a complete schedule of public events listed below including hosts, locations and contact information.
If you cannot join us in Washington D.C., or Korea, you can still participate in North Korea Freedom Week with prayers and financial support:
Open Doors has launched a Shatter the Darkness prayer campaign in conjunction with North Korea Freedom Week. Here is the link for information http://www.opendoorsusa.org/pray/North-Korea-Freedom-Week
We are still raising funds towards the balloon launch into North Korea and other NKFW activities. If you can help with a donation to support NKFW, you can donate at www.defenseforum.org or for general support of North Korea programs at www.nkfreedom.org
Warm regards,
Suzanne Scholte
Schedule of Events
http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2011NKFWSchedule04.22.pdf
(This is the event I’m interested in supporting.)
Saturday, April 30th
12PM ~ 1PM
Balloon Launch into North Korea for Unification
Host: Fighters for Free North Korea (www.ffnk.net)
Location: Imjingak, Paju City
Transportation: Gyeongui Rail Line, Imjingak Station
Contact: Mr. Park Sang Hak (berojapark@hanmail.net)
Previous balloon launch news.
http://www.nkfreedom.org/
Outreach to North Koreans Continues: Thank you to all who have supported our ongoing outreach to North Koreans through radio broadcasting and balloon launches. We are pleased to provide a link to the news coverage of the Nov 30, 2010 balloon launch that we helped support with Fighters for a Free North Korea. The launch was at the DMZ and included 200,000 leaflets, 500 DVDs, and more economic stimulus for North’s Korea private markets of 1000 $1.00 bills. The next launch will be from Yeonpyeong Island! This will be the 15th launch we have financed.
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/politics/2010/11/30/0511000000AKR20101130177700060.HTML?template=3576
Videos of previous balloon launches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i1HUx-jbVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0szGP_jpMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrteCenR128
China has a couple trillion extra dollars bloating their vaults and needing a place to be invested. Maybe they can throw half of that N Korea’s way to help with food and stuff.
I don’t know about that, but won’t be surprised to find that they donate heavily to Carter. He is their valuable “useful idiot.”
Last week the Chinese informed him they could no longer guarantee the safety of Kim’s train trips into China. Kim uses 3 identical trains, 2 for decoys. One of them was blown up in Manchuria by NK expats in China. Kim won’t fly and his travels may become much further restricted in NK also.
You mean in his last trip when his train wondered around Manchuria? If that is true, it is one heck of a coverup by Chinese. Is that why they urged Kim Jong-eun to use a plane should he decide to visit China?
NK claims that it was a bridge failure due to poor maintenance by the Chinese. The insult was repaid by the Chinese declining to provide anymore protection. There are a lot of NK in Manchuria and N China that are an important source of foreign capital to NK. Funny, the Chinese internal debate regarding the need for NK foreign workers reads like America’s.
Yup, the bridge was blown up. Whomever did had inside or at least advanced information on the train movements. Evidently Chia Head doesn’t pick the actual train he’s riding in until just before the train leaves the station and may not be the same train that he rode in on.
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