Posted on 11/13/2015 2:57:18 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Top N.Korean Apparatchik Back in the Doghouse
North Korea's elderly comeback kid Choe Ryong-hae is believed to have been demoted again and undergoing reeducation.
Rumors had circulated that Choe has been purged since his name was omitted from from the roster of a committee preparing for the funeral of Marshal Ri Ul-sol, who died last Saturday.
A source Thursday said Choe (64) was not purged but dismissed from his post as Workers Party secretary. Reeducation is a milder punishment for senior officials who have made "mistakes." As in Maoist China or the Soviet Union, they are sent to collective farms, factories or coal mines so they can reflect on their misconduct.
There is speculation that Choe is being brought to book for the shoddy work for the construction of a power plant that was supposed to be a prestige project for young leader Kim Jong-un.
Defectors here said people like Choe would typically be sent to a collective farm in Pyongyang, which is directly managed by Kim's family.
Kim Heung-kwang of defector group North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity said elite prisoners are usually put to work farming crops or pigs.
Officials usually return to their posts after six months to two years.
Choe has been promoted and demoted several times during his high-flying career, surviving probably because he is the son of a revered partisan who fought alongside nation founder Kim Il-sung.
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Doesn’t that fat pig punish those in his “doghouse” with artillery fire?
I seem to remember that he, very literally, turned the dogs loose on an uncle.
That news caused our own leftists to backpedal a bit.
I think he did use anti aircraft guns on some non relatives.
Strange days when a narcissistic megalomaniac rules the land.
Wait! What?
Oh, carry on.
The saddest irony in this ongoing North Korean tragedy is that Pyongyang was at one time (many years before) known as the ‘Jerusalem of the Far East’ for it’s strong spirituality and Christian values.
I kid you not.
Being sent to a collective farm at 64?With the farming methods the Norks employ that guy probably won’t make it to 68.
It is about getting thrown there by the Boss to be eaten alive by the dogs.
This guy will be lucky if he isn't ultimately turned into a screaming ALPO dinner.
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