Some of them have not only info on NK nuke program but also NK regime's overseas bank account which have been well-hidden. This means that money pipeline would be squeezed further because those accounts could be shut down.
Fat Boy may have to cut down on his obscenely extravagant life-style.
More info came out on clash between Jang's people and NK military. 150 KPA soldiers went to take over a lucrative fishery enterprise with the approval of Kim Jong-eun. Kim told Jang to give it to military so that they can feed malnourished soldiers. Jang ignored it, and his people naturally did not get the message from his boss. When the soldiers turned up, Jang's boys refused to turn it over. Things got heated up. 150 (malnourished) soldiers clashed with 40 (probably better-fed) Jang's securities, in which soldiers got their ass-kicked. Two of them were dead.
Thank you.
If this is correct — and it sounds like it either is true or was created by the military to make Jang look bad, which means it might as well be true — it shows just how bad things are in the North.
This is in a country with a military-first approach. If the soldiers are so malnourished that they can't fight off a much smaller force barely a quarter of their size, think how bad the civilian population is.
Remember that it's winter. Winter and snow in America means a nice warm fire. Winter and snow in North Korea means when your food runs out you've got nothing to forage in the fields and no hope of new food for months.
Dysfunctional doesn't even begin to describe a place like this.
He plied them with cognac and yachts and speedboats and porno movies and brand goods and high class Euro chocolates and gold watches, etc. They in turn kept their Tokarev's holstered, safety's on.
That was the brilliance in the initial GWB strategy of cutting off to the DPRK luxury goods; somebody, a Pyongyang-ologist somewhere, did their home work and found out internally what holds the NK factions together, gifts and bribery and probably women (and blackmail). Take away the money flow and luxuries to DPRK from external sources and yes, Fat Boy Kim Jong Un could indeed be on troubled ground if he cannot continue to bribe off DPRK officials around him with luxury goods and playthings for their kids and grand kids. I hope this gets "interesting." Too bad we have a jerk in the US White House. This would be a good time to have an allied strategy to topple the House of Kim, seize the nukes and push forward toward peaceful reunification--but I would not expect that under Obama's watch unfortunately. Those associates of Jang's in safehouses and what not in China, if they can safely get to S.E. Asia and then Seoul, might indeed bring in a treasure trove of useful intelligence, one hopes at least.